Can I use two wireless adapters in one Desktop?
I bought an internal PCI wireless adapter last year and I never got a very good signal. Then last week I got an external USB wireless adapter. It works great. But I hate to see the internal go to waste. I was wondering if I could use both to get a unified connection to the same network. I tried creating a bridge (in XP), but that just screwed up both connections. Is it possible to connect to one wireless network with two adapters in the same machine and have XP treat them as one connection? I tried googling this question but I only found solutions for bridging a wirelss to a wired connection.
3 Responses
UbiquitousGeek
16 Aug 2010
Linux OS
16 Aug 2010
Yes, you can use as many adapters as you like! The drivers for your device(s) will need to support "teaming" to use them as a team.
ttommyfunkenstie
16 Aug 2010
You can use more than one but as far as combining them into one connection/IP address I haven’t seen any programs that could manage that. IP’s use MAC address’ for communication ID. And theres only one MAC address per card. It’s how the internet works. So yes you can have two on the same machine but no they can’t be combined for an assymetric connection.
That and you won’t see any increase in speed.