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I have a MB that has two Realtek NIC (1GB) and software that allows you to team the two chips together using a router or switch.

I have a router so I used that. It works, showing 2GB throughput. The reason I did this is because people are saying that it offers redundancy and thus you're less likely to slow down when downloading, playing games, etc.

In essence, if you're ISP gives you a maximum bandwidth downstream of 8000Mb/s and you normally can get only anywhere between 3-6000Mb/s, but teaming your cards you could closer to your maximum.

IS this true? If so I don't understand how that can be because everything is above the stack, and if a slowdown occurs while downloading a file, then it is a bottleneck above the stack.

So I assume, just using some simple logic that the only way this can be true is if it is like two different computers downloading the same file, and both are only getting 4000Mb/s. Thus, if both are getting that bandwidth, you could theoretically double the D/L speed because each connection would be downloading half the file.

That means that your ISP would have to be clean all the way through to its client, and the congestion would have to be above the ISP stack before you could see any benefit.

So can someone explain if I have the idea, or am I totally missing something?