Optimal use of multiple internet connections

G'day,
lets say that you can access the internet via multiple means lets say over ethernet and airport. Perhaps you want OSX to prefer one over the other when one is faster than the other, or just to share internet usage over the two resources.
Is there a way of doing this using OSX, or is the a 3rd party app to achieve this?

You can aggregate two links of the same type (e.g. two (or more) gigabit ethernet ports) but you cannot do it with different interface types (e.g. one wired ethernet port and one wireless).
That's because of the way that link aggregation works - the host system and the switch it's connected to have to agree on how the packets are split between the multiple links. This cannot be done if links don't all go to the same place - e.g. one link to a switch and one link to a base station.
With a wired and a wireless port, the best you can do is active/standby.
Of course, this discussion is only relevant if your internet connection is greater than the speed of one of your links - in this case 54mbps - otherwise all you're doing is talking to your router faster, which is going to throttle the traffic down to your WAN link speed.

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