Look into bridging: http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/133849
Jeremiah E. Bess Network Ninja, Penguin Geek, Father of four On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 21:59, Kari Matthews <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 10:56 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 10:44:47PM -0500, Kari Matthews wrote: >> > This is not directly about linux. *Well, maybe. >> > My internet connection is about 1000 kbps down and 600 up. *(I live >> in the >> > country; it is a wireless cxn.) *If I bought 2 systems, is there a >> way to >> > set up a server to make my internet go twice as fast or more? >> > My husband swears there used to be a way to do this -- in Novell >> maybe? >> > *IDK -- and I'd like to figure this out for our current system. >> > Oh, and that MythTV thing is cool. >> > Thanks, >> > Kari >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux >> Users >> > Group. >> > To post a message, send email to [email protected] >> > To unsubscribe, send email to >> [email protected] >> > For more options, visit our group at >> > [1]http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup >> > >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> > linuxusersgroup+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email >> with >> > the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject. >> > >> > References >> > >> > Visible links >> > 1. http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup >> Sounds like you're talking about ISDN, where two separate phone lines >> can be "added" to make their 56k lines combine to a sort-of 128k line. >> Unfortunately, with wireless, you'd most likely be trying to run the two >> systems in the same band - and won't see any speed increase (in fact, >> the packet collisions may *decrease* your overall speed). >> >> If the 1,000 kbit connection is artificial (i.e. the link is capable of >> 10MBit or higher) you could use two systems, and load balance between >> the links. >> >> I don't personally have experience with doing the latter, but it's quite >> probably not applicable - what kind of wireless connection is it you're >> talking about? >> > > It's some kind of cellular technology -- I am not certain about the > specifics. The beacon is on top of a local grain elevator (to give you an > idea of what kind of place I live in). There is a dish that is similar to > those WAN dishes (kind of a metal grate). Not satellite. Satellite was > terrible. > > ~kari > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > Group. > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to linuxusersgroup+ > unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE > ME" as the subject. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup To unsubscribe from this group, send email to linuxusersgroup+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
