How to connect to multiple wireless networks with 1 Wi-Fi card/adapter in LINUX?
Tuesday, May 17th, 2011 at
05:00
Is there a way in Linux [not windows] to connect to more than one wireless network simultaneously using only one WIFI Card?
Is there any distribution or application that can do that in Linux?
Even If I did connect to say 2 wireless networks, say 2mbps each, would I be able to get speeds of 4mbps?
Tagged with: Linux • wifi card • wireless networks
Filed under: Linux Applications
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Probably not. Each wireless link gives an IP address, and each has a specific gateway, etc.
You may be able to assign multiple IP addresses to the wireless adapter, but security is again, specific to one link only.
Even if you did connect to 2 networks at 2mbps each, you would only get 2mbps per browser/link/download because the Internet server will reply to only one IP address for any queries.
Even with more advanced Linux routers, bandwidth on 2 adapters usually only provides fail-over, or best speed per link, never cumulative download (2mbps at best, never 4mbps)
If anyone has a better solution, I’d like to hear it too