Two Ethernet

[thorlox 0]

Is it possible to have two computers in the same home each connected to separate ethernet outlets? That way both have faster connections (100 mbps vs 54 with wireless G).

[yordan 10]

Is it possible to have two computers in the same home each connected to separate ethernet outlets? That way both have faster connections (100 mbps vs 54 with wireless G).

This is not real life.In real life, your home is connected to the outer world through a communication link.
And this link has a limited speed.
Depending how lucky you are, this speed is fast or slow. Some friends of mine are lucky, they have a 10 mbs/sec link. Some other people have a 512k bits/sec (0.5 mbit/sec).
Some very few people have a 100 mbits/sec link going until their home.
Even these people have only 100 mbits/sec. So, having two separate ethernet outlets will make no difference, the total sum of all their ethernet outlets will be at least 100 mbits/sec : 50 mbits/sec each in case of two computers.
Of course, in my lab I have an ethernet switch with 24 separate Ethernet outlets, each of them is 1 gigabits/sec (1000 mbps), so the throughput between two computers is really huge, but the total throughput towards the worldwide web remains some megs per second.
Hope this helps.
Yordan

[levimage 0]

Is it possible to have two computers in the same home each connected to separate ethernet outlets? That way both have faster connections (100 mbps vs 54 with wireless G).

Seems pretty vague. What are you trying to accomplish? If you are talking about setting up a home LAN on copper ethernet versus wireless, then copper is the way to go if you want a faster connection (bandwidth). For say sharing music, movies, local gaming, etc.

If you are talking about two (2) ethernet outlets to say... the Internet. That will depend on your internet service providers (ISPs) capabilities. There might be some overhead when it comes to latency when running wireless at home versus copper ethernet. But if we are talking about bandwidth and you just happen to have like some kind of ridiculous broadband +10MB connection then copper ethernet is the way to go. But two separate Internet accounts from the same ISP will not really benefit you as much as having them via different providers. A good analogy here would be like a VSAT - satellite system. Both dishes are pointed to the same satellite which is serving all the VSAT dishes customers in that hemisphere. Sometimes the clients could be as much as 10,000 dishes, 3,000 of which might be on at that moment, and 300 might be clicking pages or downloading content online. So it is a matter of how the bandwidth is used at that moment, and at what service level (Upload/Download package) you have. Some times the ISPs are customers of larger ISPs who are customers of backbone ISPs. Some ISPs oversell the bandwidth - more customers than it can actually support at a given moment - for profit or other gains. Then there are other which maintain a certain quality of service so this wont happen.