Utilize Switch to manage several connections and direct them to one device.
Utilize Switch to manage several connections and direct them to one device.
I think this is a bit of a noob question but here it goes: I am a university student living on campus and the university is throttling my account's connection to 30 Mb/s. While this isn't horrible speeds for everyday use, I do need more than this for some tasks. Is there any way that I can take multiple connections (through multiple accounts), and then using my switch, merge them into a single connection with hopes of better speeds? When I say multiple connections, I am thinking of running cables from my friends rooms, on their accounts and then bringing them into one main, gigabit switch and let that handle the combination of the networks. Also, I know it is the university putting a cap on each user after some lengthy debugging and a call to the IT department. It does not need to be through a switch necessarily. If there are other ways I'm all ears. Thanks in advance.
You need a router with several wan ports, ideally supporting a multilink VPN or similar. This setup allows a single TCP stream to operate faster than 30Mbps.
He might benefit from a Layer 3 switch and setting up a bonded EtherChannel?