On 2020-05-06 6:02 p.m., ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
Hi All,
Not to ask too silly a question, but what happens when you have dual Ethernet adapters and you hook both of them to your (switching) hub?
You go twice as fast?
Many thanks,
Yes and no...
There's seven bonding modes, six of which aggregate bandwidth in various ways (one, mode=1, is focused on reliability). So with those, you'll double your bandwidth.
Of course, this is bandwidth to the switch (point of order, "hub" is an old style that shares bandwidth to all ports, modern switches are per port). If you've got data coming/going from more that one source, you'll potentially benefit, but between two machines, you'll need the other machine to also have enough bandwidth as connections always go at the slowest link.