combine 2 wireless

Hi ther.

Have searched but cant seem to find info I can understand. hehe.

Here is the thing. I have 2 routers, one with DHCP, the other just act as a access point, no DHCP. Works fine.

I use my built in wireless netcard in my laptop, but also have a USB wireless key I want to use, to get a bit higher connection to my network.

I want to combine the 2 wireless cards so I get a faster acces to my network.

I can log on each wireless acces point with each wireless card,so both are logged in wireless at the same time, but only one of the cards are used when I transfer files to the network.

How do I combine them in vista to use both cards at the same time?

Thank you very much
Ronni

 

I remember there was a way to bridge connections in XP. Maybe vista has a similar method??

 

There is..

But it says that there is an IP conflict now?

It cant be, as the routers DHCP gives a new IP to the new wireless when it logs in?

 

Bridging connections does not combine throughput. Just want to make this clear early on in the topic.

AFAIK, what you want to do will require some additional software not included with Windows, and I do not believe it's worth even doing.

 

Okay.. It was throughput I wanted to get more of.

So it only combines networks and internet? No "load balancing" or bigger throughput...

But "if" I wanted to get more throughput? What software should I look at then? Thank you

 

Bridging is used for sharing internet across multiple computers via a chain of NIC cards basically.

I honestly do not know what consumer level software there is for load balancing on two NICs in the same computer. MS server 2003 and some third party vendors (citrix, etc) offer software for load balancing on server clusters. That's what this sort of thing is usually used for. This also makes it very expensive.

Honestly man? Get a better router/access point or wireless card. What you're looking to do is impractical when you weigh in the cost of this software.

EDIT: Oh, and since it's wireless, you will choke down your throughput for every additional connection that that access point, since wireless uses CSMA/CA not CSMA/CD the way wired uses. I am fairly certain that you can't really strengthen a signal by using two small antennas the way one antenna twice the size would.

If you're super set on this, you could try modifying the software the comes with some [very] high end intel ethernet adapters which have load balancing to suit your needs.

 

Okay... Thank you for the reply.