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Exzir
12-16-02, 04:10 PM
Hey,

Ok I have read tons of messages about the bridge connections but I did not hear anyone wth a upstream bandwidth limiter. I don't have a physcal speed limit but the ISP has a limit per ip address. My question would be if I bridge the connections would this pit both IPs so packets to one person would be like sending him two connections. Or would I just have to put one IP per computer and connect with each and send file to him. Reason I think a bridge connection would work is that the computer would be sending half of the packets over each NIC. Now I can understand that if I am sending to two people that each would get the limit of one IP but if I am sending to one person could packets be rounted to that person via each IP address. Now if the bridge connections will only get one IP address total should I got from dhcp to stic IP addresses.

Exzir

Kip Patterson
12-16-02, 05:24 PM
Your ISP does have a cap on both downstream and upstream. the cap is applied on the cable modem, not on each IP address. Attempting to combine/bridge two IP addresses will not gain you any speed. In any case, you can only use one IP address per TCP/IP connection, so you would not be able to improve the upload even with two separate modems bridged.

Kip