Question on Combining wireless networks

Someone that lives opposite me has a wireless network in his house that runs through 3 computers, and is supplied by a DSL connection.

I also have DSL internet and plan to network it around my house. I hadoriginally intended to use CAT5, but wireless seems so much simpler.

I have read all sorts of stuff about wireless security or lack of, but I did hear somewhere that internet connections broadcast from several sources can give a greater bandwidth than the sum of their parts.

My neighbour and I are happy to experiment with our internet connections, but can anyone give me some information as to whether this is correct? I have started to read lots of stuff out on the net, but wireless isnt really my strongpoint, and I dont like pringles.

 

> I have read all sorts of stuff about wireless
> security or lack of, but I did hear
> somewhere that internet connections
> broadcast from several sources can give a
> greater bandwidth than the sum of their
> parts.

Probably not. Waredja hear that?

Multiple gateways may increase the aggregate throughput to the aggregate network. ...If you know something about the network load of each node and know how to direct the traffic. You could have some fail-over benefit. But it's probably not worth the hassle. At an individual workstation, you aren't going to notice any difference.

Even if you add multiple gateways to a Microsoft TCP/IP stack, the first gateway must be unreachable before the next gateway will be utilized. When your first gateway comes back on line, all your nodes will still be failed-over to the one gateway until you reboot.