Double Uplink hub

paulsy · October 27th, 2004

Hey I was wondering if there is such a thing as a double uplink hub. The reason i was wondering was because my room mate and I would like our internet connection here at the university to greatly go up. Right now there are tons of slow downs when it comes to online games. If you have other options of what we could do they are welcome also.

**Bgnome** · October 27th, 2004

i am not sure exactly what you mean by a double uplink hub but most universities have a very stringent policy on what you can do with your ethernet connection. the slow speed is most likely due to the rest of the college kids unknowingly hogging bandwith through p2p uploads. there isnt much you can do about that..

paulsy · October 27th, 2004

I am not sure about the policies about the network but what i was thinking is put my port into one uplink and my roommate on the other and then we would have double the bandwidth, or would there be data collisions?

Squigi63 · October 27th, 2004

I don't believe it would work, I know with dial up they have Shot gunning where you need 2 phone lines and help from isp and you get a little boost in bandwidth. I stongly doubt it is possible.

October 27th, 2004	#1 (permalink)
paulsy and why shouldn't I Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: wisconsin Posts: 305	Double Uplink hub Hey I was wondering if there is such a thing as a double uplink hub. The reason i was wondering was because my room mate and I would like our internet connection here at the university to greatly go up. Right now there are tons of slow downs when it comes to online games. If you have other options of what we could do they are welcome also. __________________ windows xp 1.8 gig p4 20 gig hd 40 gig hd 256 mb of ram tnt2 m64 "they can beat us but they can't eat us"

October 27th, 2004	#2 (permalink)
Bgnome Who Da Gnome? Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: At Home Posts: 2,441	i am not sure exactly what you mean by a double uplink hub but most universities have a very stringent policy on what you can do with your ethernet connection. the slow speed is most likely due to the rest of the college kids unknowingly hogging bandwith through p2p uploads. there isnt much you can do about that.. __________________ May the Gnome™ be With You

October 27th, 2004	#3 (permalink)
paulsy and why shouldn't I Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: wisconsin Posts: 305	I am not sure about the policies about the network but what i was thinking is put my port into one uplink and my roommate on the other and then we would have double the bandwidth, or would there be data collisions? __________________ windows xp 1.8 gig p4 20 gig hd 40 gig hd 256 mb of ram tnt2 m64 "they can beat us but they can't eat us"

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October 27th, 2004	#4 (permalink)
Squigi63 Service Clerk Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: EL Posts: 356	I don't believe it would work, I know with dial up they have Shot gunning where you need 2 phone lines and help from isp and you get a little boost in bandwidth. I stongly doubt it is possible.