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You can only connect to one at a time, but beside that

(quoting myself)

You're trying to get as much water as possible, so you think, hmm, maybe if I add two pipes, I'll get more water!

So you go, and you add a Y-junction to the 5" water pipe you get from the city. Splitting your water into two different 5" pipes.

Then you say "wait, I need more water, I'm going to fix this!"

So you change out one of the pipes and now you have the 5" pipe going to another 5" and a 2" pipe.

Still with me?

No matter WHAT you do, you will not be getting any more water out of that 5". You're limited by whatever amount of water the city sends you. You can't pull more water than the city gives out.

Now, that's the same as what happens with your internet. Instead of water, it's data. But no matter how you divide your network (pipes), it will still only be able to receive that limited amount of data at a time (water).

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If I connect my laptop to both my WiFi router and wired ethernet connection, is there a way to take advantage of both connections or will I be limited to only one? It would be pretty cool to double my internet speed :)

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

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I wish that were the case... lol

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You can only take advantage if you can manage to find a virtual router, it's usually linux based though so you would need a linux OS or be running a linux VM to take advantage 

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You'll only get one useful connection.

 

You can't exceed how much bandwidth your ISP gives you.

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i suggest using ethernet (better connection) and then using that free wifi card to host wifi from your computer (assuming youre on Win7)

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I do it.. I connect to my wifi extender using ethernet (shows as cjdghouse2ghz) and use wifi adapter to connect to my main network (cjdghouse) It is faster than just one or the other..

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You can only connect to one at a time, but beside that

(quoting myself)

You're trying to get as much water as possible, so you think, hmm, maybe if I add two pipes, I'll get more water!

So you go, and you add a Y-junction to the 5" water pipe you get from the city. Splitting your water into two different 5" pipes.

Then you say "wait, I need more water, I'm going to fix this!"

So you change out one of the pipes and now you have the 5" pipe going to another 5" and a 2" pipe.

Still with me?

No matter WHAT you do, you will not be getting any more water out of that 5". You're limited by whatever amount of water the city sends you. You can't pull more water than the city gives out.

Now, that's the same as what happens with your internet. Instead of water, it's data. But no matter how you divide your network (pipes), it will still only be able to receive that limited amount of data at a time (water).

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You can only connect to one at a time, but beside that

(quoting myself)

Nice explanation! Thanks!

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

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