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2 wireless cards = Twice the Speed?

post #1 of 23
2/12/06 at 11:06am
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My current residence has 2 main wireless networks near it, my own shared house's wireless and the wireless of the university campus (I'm at the edge of the main campus).

Both networks can get up to 100-150kbps. If I buy a PMCIA wireless card, can I access both networks at once? For example, can I use one for azureus and one for surfing, or both for azureus at the same time?
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post #2 of 23
2/12/06 at 11:20am
There's Mimo. Which sends two signals from one router, but I never heard of a ISDN type setup for Wlan though.
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post #3 of 23
2/12/06 at 11:49am
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Sorry, I think I was a little unclear.

I already have a dell A/B/G card which takes up the wireless slot and an open PMCIA slot. I was wondering if adding another wireless card through the PMCIA slot would allow me to access a second network, effectively doubling my bandwidth. I am able to switch between these two networks on the fly with my one card so I'm within range of both without them interfering with each other.
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post #4 of 23
2/12/06 at 12:02pm
no
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post #5 of 23
2/12/06 at 12:24pm
Would you be able use 2 Wireless cards on the same network to make it faster?
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post #6 of 23
2/12/06 at 12:57pm
no again

you can not have 2 wireless devices treated as one for double the speed
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post #7 of 23
2/12/06 at 1:10pm
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Originally Posted by DimGR
no again

you can not have 2 wireless devices treated as one for double the speed

OK thanks for the help!
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post #8 of 23
2/12/06 at 2:16pm
Your system and applications can only ever connect to one network at a time, so it's pointless to have 2 wifi cards.

What you can do is get a really cheap or second-hand PC/notebook, give it a cheap wifi card or usb stick, and download half your files on this crappy comp and the other half on your Dell, ideally using the two individual networks. That would effectively double your bandwith, but this kind of solution is probably for the bandwidth-obsessed only, lol.
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post #9 of 23
2/12/06 at 2:45pm
duh (: come on now, isnt highspeed via wifi good enough?

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post #10 of 23
2/12/06 at 4:50pm
I just want to mention that it would be possible to do it if you got a nice routing algorithm behind it.
If you wouldn't be able to connect one device to two networks the internet just wouldn't exist

But still, it's not doable with a router and something like loadbalancing.
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post #11 of 23
2/12/06 at 6:30pm
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Originally Posted by DrewVanT
Your system and applications can only ever connect to one network at a time, so it's pointless to have 2 wifi cards.

What you can do is get a really cheap or second-hand PC/notebook, give it a cheap wifi card or usb stick, and download half your files on this crappy comp and the other half on your Dell, ideally using the two individual networks. That would effectively double your bandwith, but this kind of solution is probably for the bandwidth-obsessed only, lol.

having 2 ore more wlan cards is not pointless. When i am at home i use 3 wlan cards on the laptop all the time for various reasons
one minipci
one pcmcia
one usb wlan
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post #12 of 23
2/21/06 at 3:52pm
It is, however, possible to get two ADSL connections running with a special router so you can combine the bandwidth, but that doesn't really apply to you.
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post #13 of 23
2/21/06 at 3:56pm
sounds like the old "shotgun" modem configuration I used to play around with... and it did work. All it would take is some new software and hardware....
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post #14 of 23
3/14/06 at 6:36pm
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Originally Posted by Dukhat
My current residence has 2 main wireless networks near it, my own shared house's wireless and the wireless of the university campus (I'm at the edge of the main campus).

Both networks can get up to 100-150kbps. If I buy a PMCIA wireless card, can I access both networks at once? For example, can I use one for azureus and one for surfing, or both for azureus at the same time?
I see no reason for this not to work. If you have two seperate network interfaces, both with a unique IP, you can configure the default gateway etc for both interfaces.

Same way as I can have wireless connected to wireless and ethernet to ethernet at same time on my 9400.

Post any observations dudes. There is no technical reason for the OP's requirements not to work.

Regards,

Dougie.
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post #15 of 23
3/14/06 at 7:42pm
sure itll work with some work.

but why? theses wifi cards dont cap out at cable wifi speeds!

the question is not will it work, its why the hell does someone wanna do this?
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post #16 of 23
3/17/06 at 5:38pm
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Originally Posted by chevyrulz099
sure itll work with some work.

but why? theses wifi cards dont cap out at cable wifi speeds!

the question is not will it work, its why the hell does someone wanna do this?
No one else answered so,

Wireless network to his UNI (Private Network) - Access uni system, do work etc, background processing

Wireless network to his home Network, General Internet Access.

One situation, but there are numerous reasons for using a setup such as this. Need More ?

Dougie.
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post #17 of 23
3/19/06 at 2:53am
yes, you should have one interface that windows will default to use for internet and the other will more or less just sit there.

that is, unless you tell the program to use that interface. i believe yo ucan do this in azereus but i dont remember for sure. i think if you tell it what your external ip is, for the connections that arent passive youll work with the other device
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post #18 of 23
3/19/06 at 3:04am
my point is its a waste. with the speeds what they are today with HSI, you wont notice anything!
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post #19 of 23
3/19/06 at 1:53pm
i think it could be noticable if he's getting about 150KBps per line or so. if say azereus takes up the full 150 on one connectio n and he's downloading on the other, then thered be another 150
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post #20 of 23
3/19/06 at 4:06pm
this becomes on of those things, "is it worth the time?"

i just think the answer is no.

the computer can only handle so many downloads at once anyways.
ive (along with everyone) have used p2p, and once you get so many DL's going, i think its more a processor thing than it is a connection thing.
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