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What you people are talking about is called link aggregation. this is done basically for network redundancy. basicially it allows you to have two identical internet connections. this is only done in corporate business environments, not done in residential accounts.

SPRINT DOES NOT SUPPORT LINK AGGERGATION.

And to my understanding link aggregation (which again only works if your isp offers it) DOES NOT GIVE YOU TWICE THE BANDWITH, BUT GIVES YOU REDUNDANCY SO IF YOUR CONNECTION GOES DOWN YOU HAVE ANOTHER ONE THAT WORKS.

again, sprint does NOT support this. this is what will happen.

tcpip (the rules that data uses to travel on a network) is a point to point connection. if a computer has an internet connection and you request a website, data file, movie stream your ip address (any internet connetion gets a number called an ip address to identify your computer on the network) is communicated with the server on the other side of the internet. that server then sends the data TO THAT IP ADDRESS.

now,,, if you have 2 network addapters (a computer with only 1 wifi adapter will only connect to 1, one, 1 touch pro 2, or any other wifi network) then you will have 2 internet connections and 2 ip addresses. when you request data from the server your computer gives that server 1 ip address (again, tcpip is only capable of one connection) and the data is streamed over that 1 connectino to that 1 ip address.

now there will be somewhat of a benifit in this, you can stream a movie at teh speed of that one connection, and then windows will use the second connection to retrieve other data. if you are downloading a large file on the one connection, windows will use the other connection to download OTHER DATA.

but tcpip cannot cannot cannot cannot split the data in half and download it on separate connections. hence the other server only has ONE ip address that it sends teh data to.

even with link aggregation the remote server does NOT have the capabilitity of spitting the data into two parts.


oh, and this has NOTHING to do with bridging. bridging nearly connects 2 networks, it does not combine them.

if you had 2 connections to the internet and you bridged them your computer basicially becomes a router and connects the 2 adapters, but this would accomplish nothing as the data comming from either connection would be directed to the pc's ip address and all data will stop at the computer.