Help finding something Linus did in a video with networks

[cold drew]

Hello,

I am going to do my best to try and explain what I am trying to find. I cannot find the video again yet, but in one of his videos Linus mentioned that to increase performance to his Ethernet connection he was splitting between Ethernet and wifi. Something like sending Windows updates and other things like that go to wifi so that his Ethernet connection is uninterrupted during gaming. Does anybody remember this from the video and able to help me figure out how he did that? I would like to do that on my computer as well. Thank you in advance!

[Mr Technician]

1 minute ago, subdistinction said:

Hello,

I am going to do my best to try and explain what I am trying to find. I cannot find the video again yet, but in one of his videos Linus mentioned that to increase performance to his Ethernet connection he was splitting between Ethernet and wifi. Something like sending Windows updates and other things like that go to wifi so that his Ethernet connection is uninterrupted during gaming. Does anybody remember this from the video and able to help me figure out how he did that? I would like to do that on my computer as well. Thank you in advance!

But why? You are still using a single internet connection.

[cold drew]

1 minute ago, ThatFlashCat said:

But why? You are still using a single internet connection.

Well, I am still not 100% sure of what I am asking for and I wish that I could find it in the videos because I remember it making since as he explained it and that somehow it boosted his network performance.

[Mr Technician]

1 minute ago, subdistinction said:

Well, I am still not 100% sure of what I am asking for and I wish that I could find it in the videos because I remember it making since as he explained it and that somehow it boosted his network performance.

Are you experiencing any lag in games due to your network? If not, don't worry about this.

[ddennis002]

6 minutes ago, subdistinction said:

Hello,

I am going to do my best to try and explain what I am trying to find. I cannot find the video again yet, but in one of his videos Linus mentioned that to increase performance to his Ethernet connection he was splitting between Ethernet and wifi. Something like sending Windows updates and other things like that go to wifi so that his Ethernet connection is uninterrupted during gaming. Does anybody remember this from the video and able to help me figure out how he did that? I would like to do that on my computer as well. Thank you in advance!

It was this video @ 11:45

 

[cold drew]

1 minute ago, ddennis002 said:

It was this video @ 11:45

 

YES! That was it. The real MVP. Anybody have any info on what he is talking about here? I am interested to learn more.

[cold drew]

2 minutes ago, ThatFlashCat said:

Are you experiencing any lag in games due to your network? If not, don't worry about this.

I have started to experience random lag in games which is why I am looking into it. Also looking into it just because I am interested in how it works.

[ddennis002]

2 minutes ago, subdistinction said:

I have started to experience random lag in games which is why I am looking into it. Also looking into it just because I am interested in how it works.

This is the information your looking for.

https://www.killernetworking.com/technologies/killer-doubleshot-pro/

Edited May 6, 2019 by ddennis002

[cold drew]

1 minute ago, ddennis002 said:

This is the information your looking for.

http://www.killernetworking.com/technology/killer-double-shot-pro

Dude, you are the king of the internet knowledge today. Okay, so then the laptop he was reviewing must have that technology built in?

[ddennis002]

Just now, subdistinction said:

Dude, you are the king of the internet knowledge today. Okay, so then the laptop he was reviewing must have that technology built in?

So it uses Killer NIC's and it is part software config and hardware. 

 

You can somewhat duplicate this by setting routes in windows for traffic you want to use a different route than your default.  But the downside is you would have to split your wired and wireless network into subnets then configure static routes between them so they can still communicate with each other.

So you would have wired 10.1.1.1 at the router1, and 10.1.2.1 for wifi AP.

Internet would come into router 1 wan port, and R1Lan1 would connect to WiFiAP WAN Port 10.1.1.2.

Setup static router between 10.1.1.1 and 10.1.2.1 to allow communications between the separate networks.

Laptop/PC with WIFI and Ethernet would connect to router1 R1Lan2 10.1.1.3 and WifiAP 10.1.2.2

 

In windows you would set your metric lower for Wifi to become your default route. Any traffic that doesn't have routes assigned will go though Wifi connection.

 

To setup a route you open elevated CMD. 

example traffic for a game

route add 172.68.0.0 mask 255.255.0.0 10.1.1.1

this will route all traffic from this IP range through Ethernet while all other traffic would run though Wifi.

[cold drew]

1 hour ago, ddennis002 said:

So it uses Killer NIC's and it is part software config and hardware. 

 

You can somewhat duplicate this by setting routes in windows for traffic you want to use a different route than your default.  But the downside is you would have to split your wired and wireless network into subnets then configure static routes between them so they can still communicate with each other.

So you would have wired 10.1.1.1 at the router1, and 10.1.2.1 for wifi AP.

Internet would come into router 1 wan port, and R1Lan1 would connect to WiFiAP WAN Port 10.1.1.2.

Setup static router between 10.1.1.1 and 10.1.2.1 to allow communications between the separate networks.

Laptop/PC with WIFI and Ethernet would connect to router1 R1Lan2 10.1.1.3 and WifiAP 10.1.2.2

 

In windows you would set your metric lower for Wifi to become your default route. Any traffic that doesn't have routes assigned will go though Wifi connection.

 

To setup a route you open elevated CMD. 

example traffic for a game

route add 172.68.0.0 mask 255.255.0.0 10.1.1.1

this will route all traffic from this IP range through Ethernet while all other traffic would run though Wifi.

Cool. I am going to look into this some more and see if it may be helpful for me. Thank you for your help today!

[ddennis002]

4 minutes ago, subdistinction said:

Cool. I am going to look into this some more and see if it may be helpful for me. Thank you for your help today!

Your welcome! Have a good day!