network Networking ports down and up

[NimxD]

Hello there.

recently I upgrade my router to HT-138S from my ISP and I want to use my computer with its 2 different internet ports one for download and the other to upload 

I’m using Windows 10 Pro at 1903v

and my setup it’s a MacPro 2012 (mid) with Intel Xeon X5680 x2 (dual CPU) 64GB ram NVIDA GTX 1050ti and Intel 82574L (Dual)

(I know that most of this information is unnecessary but more information might give some clue)

 

‏ Thanks to everyone in advance.

[jj9987]

Yea, that's not how networking works. One connection will use one interface for both download and upload. But if you have many connections, one can use the first interface and other connection can/might use other interface, therefore balancing the load over multiple interfaces.

[NimxD]

6 minutes ago, jj9987 said:

Yea, that's not how networking works. One connection will use one interface for both download and upload. But if you have many connections, one can use the first interface and other connection can/might use other interface, therefore balancing the load over multiple interfaces.

Thank you for your response.

Interface like what? If one it’s Interface it’s U&D what kind of other interfaces are for such a thing? And how can you apply it?

[jj9987]

2 minutes ago, NimxD said:

Thank you for your response.

Interface like what? If one it’s Interface it’s U&D what kind of other interfaces are for such a thing? And how can you apply it?

In very simple terms for a standard user, 1 port = 1 interface (it's actually more complicated). One Ethernet port on your computer is 1 interface. Your wireless chip is another interface.

 

So from what I understand, you have a MacPro, which has two RJ45 Ethernet ports and is running Windows 10 Pro. You want to connect both ports to the router to benefit from higher bandwidth. Your router has 4 1Gbps ports for LAN. So the maximum bandwidth you can get to your router is 1 Gbps per connection. If you use two ports, a single connection (e.g. file transfer on your network) will still be limited to 1 Gbps connection, but if you have 10 connections, these can be load balanced over the two ports and can use two 1 Gbps connections, so up to 2 Gbps. This applies only within your network, for example if you had a server connected directly to your router.

 

Now, let's talk about accessing the Internet. If your ISP provides you with Internet that is lower than 1 Gbps (and looking at the router specs, I'm pretty sure you don't), then you are not going to see a difference whether you use 1 or 2 ports to connect your PC to your router. You won't even saturate the single port bandwidth fully.

 

So unless you want to run multiple high bandwidth transfers in your local network, you will most likely not spot a difference between using 1 or 2 cables.

[NimxD]

2 hours ago, jj9987 said:

In very simple terms for a standard user, 1 port = 1 interface (it's actually more complicated). One Ethernet port on your computer is 1 interface. Your wireless chip is another interface.

 

So from what I understand, you have a MacPro, which has two RJ45 Ethernet ports and is running Windows 10 Pro. You want to connect both ports to the router to benefit from higher bandwidth. Your router has 4 1Gbps ports for LAN. So the maximum bandwidth you can get to your router is 1 Gbps per connection. If you use two ports, a single connection (e.g. file transfer on your network) will still be limited to 1 Gbps connection, but if you have 10 connections, these can be load balanced over the two ports and can use two 1 Gbps connections, so up to 2 Gbps. This applies only within your network, for example if you had a server connected directly to your router.

 

Now, let's talk about accessing the Internet. If your ISP provides you with Internet that is lower than 1 Gbps (and looking at the router specs, I'm pretty sure you don't), then you are not going to see a difference whether you use 1 or 2 ports to connect your PC to your router. You won't even saturate the single port bandwidth fully.

 

So unless you want to run multiple high bandwidth transfers in your local network, you will most likely not spot a difference between using 1 or 2 cables.

Let’s say that I have 2 ports so both ports are technically 1g each so theoretical I can get 2g input and output total inside my network 

But my infrastructure in my area limits me to 40mb down and 2.3mb up so the reason that I want to “split them” to one port up and one port down to kinda let my get my upload rate a bit more stable to get my job done will I’m away from work.

And according to what you said it’s not possible because each port assigned differently so they have to work by there on 

 

so did I get correctly?

[jj9987]

This might be possible with a firewall configuration/rule, but you are not going to see a difference. PC is still going to use same amount of resources, just through different port.

[NimxD]

17 hours ago, jj9987 said:

This might be possible with a firewall configuration/rule, but you are not going to see a difference. PC is still going to use same amount of resources, just through different port.

Well thank you very very much for your help.

to admins: you can lock this topic thank you all.