“Multipath” TCP Could Turbocharge Bandwidth

Re:“Multipath” TCP Could Turbocharge Bandwidth by asynchronous13 on Tuesday October 01, 2013 @01:34AM (#6474311)

Multiparty sounds great and all. But I'd be happy if they could make a laptop use both a hard-wired Ethernet and a wifi connection at the same time. Is it really that difficult?

Not for bandwidth, I work with embedded systems. If the wifi is active, then it's not possible to connect to an IP address on the Ethernet port (OS X and Win7). Subnet doesn't matter, and re-arranging the priorities of the network devices doesn't help either.

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Re:“Multipath” TCP Could Turbocharge Bandwidth by drakaal on Tuesday October 01, 2013 @02:35AM (#6474507)

You can "shotgun" connections but hardwired and wifi usually isn't a win since the wifi will be more error prone and higher latency than the wired. So if you have both you should probably just do the wired.

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Re:“Multipath” TCP Could Turbocharge Bandwidth by asynchronous13 on Tuesday October 01, 2013 @12:42PM (#6477281)

Like I said, for embedded systems. The wired connection is not an active link to the internet.

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Re:“Multipath” TCP Could Turbocharge Bandwidth by icebraining on Tuesday October 01, 2013 @04:28AM (#6474904)

My laptop can use both connection at the same time. Maybe you need a better OS.

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Re:“Multipath” TCP Could Turbocharge Bandwidth by eps on Tuesday October 01, 2013 @01:37AM (#6474323)

You should read up on how routing works. In particular - source-based routing.

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Re:“Multipath” TCP Could Turbocharge Bandwidth by knacky on Tuesday October 01, 2013 @01:38AM (#6474328)

It may just be my laptop, but I was able to get both WiFi and Ethernet working on an HP Elitebook 8460p after toggling a setting in the BIOS.

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