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Asus p8z77-v deluxeDumb question re wifi and eternet
Hi,
I was just wondering if there is anything to be gained by running Ethernet Lan and wifi together on this board. Is there likely to be a clash or something. Short question - should I run both? Sorry for being dim about this but I am old tia. Stuart. |
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Asus p8z77-v deluxeDumb question re wifi and eternet
srt wrote:
Hi, I was just wondering if there is anything to be gained by running Ethernet Lan and wifi together on this board. Is there likely to be a clash or something. Short question - should I run both? Sorry for being dim about this but I am old tia. Stuart. If there are two paths to the same place, the software has to decide which path to use. "Automatic Metric feature for Internet Protocol routes" http://support.microsoft.com/kb/299540 Whereas the previous article was for dis-similar networking elements, you can also team together two identical NICs, in an attempt to double the bandwidth. The various terms for this, are listed here. There were even attempts years ago, to do this with dialup networking (forgotten all the details). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_aggregation One person who knew something about that, commented that you couldn't double the bandwidth for a single connection. Only the grand total of bandwidth would be doubled. Perhaps you could do downloads from Google, Microsoft, and Dell at the same time, and manage to use double the bandwidth. If you had a single connection to Google, it couldn't go faster than one of the wires in the team. Which is exactly what most people are after. To team or aggregate at that level, likely requires a proprietary solution (another layer of protocol, perhaps sequence numbers or something). My ISP supports link aggregation. You can buy up to seven ADSL wires, and the equipment on the ISP end can combine the bandwidth of them all (MLPPP). So there are some other cases where this sort of thing is supported. I haven't a clue if that has the same granularity issue or not (one big fat connection). ******* I don't really think you want any of that :-) If you use the Wifi, or you use the NIC, just use one at a time, and as soon as the opportunity presents itself, they will connect. On Wifi, there should be a little control applet, for turning off the radio in situations where you don't want it used. I used that on my laptop (and usually have trouble remembering where it's located). There is a table here, of Wifi bandwidths. And I notice a new one 802.11ad making amazing promises. Probably, that you'll be cooked by microwaves, while surfing with your web browser :-) At least this has a stated rate, faster than a GbE wired NIC. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/802.11n 802.11ad ~Feb 2014 2.4GHz/5GHz/60GHz (up to 6.75Gb/s) Yeah, like that's going to happen (i.e. get a good result). For Wifi standards in the past, best case, you get half of the max value. I wonder if the 60GHz will penetrate walls ? http://mashable.com/2010/05/10/wi-fi-faster-60ghz/ "Unfortunately, the new standard would come with severe drawbacks; Wi-Fi signal operating in the 60 GHz band would not be able to penetrate walls;" Well, no surprise there I guess. Paul |
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Asus p8z77-v deluxeDumb question re wifi and eternet
On 14/02/2014 14:11, Paul wrote:
srt wrote: Hi, I was just wondering if there is anything to be gained by running Ethernet Lan and wifi together on this board. Is there likely to be a clash or something. Short question - should I run both? Sorry for being dim about this but I am old tia. Stuart. If there are two paths to the same place, the software has to decide which path to use. "Automatic Metric feature for Internet Protocol routes" http://support.microsoft.com/kb/299540 Whereas the previous article was for dis-similar networking elements, you can also team together two identical NICs, in an attempt to double the bandwidth. The various terms for this, are listed here. There were even attempts years ago, to do this with dialup networking (forgotten all the details). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_aggregation One person who knew something about that, commented that you couldn't double the bandwidth for a single connection. Only the grand total of bandwidth would be doubled. Perhaps you could do downloads from Google, Microsoft, and Dell at the same time, and manage to use double the bandwidth. If you had a single connection to Google, it couldn't go faster than one of the wires in the team. Which is exactly what most people are after. To team or aggregate at that level, likely requires a proprietary solution (another layer of protocol, perhaps sequence numbers or something). My ISP supports link aggregation. You can buy up to seven ADSL wires, and the equipment on the ISP end can combine the bandwidth of them all (MLPPP). So there are some other cases where this sort of thing is supported. I haven't a clue if that has the same granularity issue or not (one big fat connection). ******* I don't really think you want any of that :-) If you use the Wifi, or you use the NIC, just use one at a time, and as soon as the opportunity presents itself, they will connect. On Wifi, there should be a little control applet, for turning off the radio in situations where you don't want it used. I used that on my laptop (and usually have trouble remembering where it's located). There is a table here, of Wifi bandwidths. And I notice a new one 802.11ad making amazing promises. Probably, that you'll be cooked by microwaves, while surfing with your web browser :-) At least this has a stated rate, faster than a GbE wired NIC. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/802.11n 802.11ad ~Feb 2014 2.4GHz/5GHz/60GHz (up to 6.75Gb/s) Yeah, like that's going to happen (i.e. get a good result). For Wifi standards in the past, best case, you get half of the max value. I wonder if the 60GHz will penetrate walls ? http://mashable.com/2010/05/10/wi-fi-faster-60ghz/ "Unfortunately, the new standard would come with severe drawbacks; Wi-Fi signal operating in the 60 GHz band would not be able to penetrate walls;" Well, no surprise there I guess. Paul Sorry for not getting back but thank you for your reply and very detailed information. Stuart. |
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