wireless + cable ethernet at the same time

[Voltron87]

I'm sitting in my school's library, and I'm getting a wireless signal and theres an ethernet jack. Should I connect to both networks, can they run simultaneously? or will i only get use out of one at a time?

[Freakin]

You'd have to do some special stuff to 'shotgun' your connection to work simulataneously.

Freakin

[Voltron87]

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You'd have to do some special stuff to 'shotgun' your connection to work simulataneously.

Freakin

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how hard is this? im computer fluent, if i found instructions i could handle them. if its too much of a pain i can pass.

In my office I can make a hard connection or a wireless connection. Since a hard connection is more reliable and faster, I disable the wireless connection. Click on "Start" then "Settings" and then "Network Connections." Right click on "Wireless Connection Network" and disable. Since I take my Notebook back and forth from Home & Office and Home is a wireless network, I put a Network Connections shortcut on my desktop.
dx

[Freakin]

Nevermind, I must have been mistaken. I know there were dual-port NICs available for computers that allowed this, but it appears that all you can do w/ windows & wireless+wired connections is change the default behavior. Doing some advanced work with that might allow you to specify different hosts to use different cards for (allowing you to download a large file while surfing the net on another connection) but it would likely be more trouble than it is worth.

Here (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/cableguy/cg0405.mspx) is an article to get you started. I'm sure some other tech forums would have more useful information. There is probably some custom software out there that can do it, but when I first posted I was thinking of the dual-port nics with proper drivers/software.

Sorry I couldn't be more helpful

[Voltron87]

thanks for the link