2nd Wifi card

My Compaq laptop currently comes with a Broadcom b/g mini pci-e wifi card. I found out my laptop have another mini pci-e slot. Can I buy another mini pci-e wifi card(intel b/g or b/g/n) and use it? Do I need to connect the antenna wires? How could I connect the wires?

If it is possible, would I be able to connect to two access point at the same time? I'm asking this because my school have wifi service(fast but firewalled) and nearby there is a private wifi AP(slow but no firewall). I want to use school wifi service for normal browsing, downloading and private AP for torrents, etc.

Thank you for answering.

 

in the wireless bays, their should be one or two small thin wires which stick into the bay, so that you can upgrade your wireless card.
If the system only has one set of antennas for the first wireless card than you would have to dismantle your system and buy another set of antennas (aka just some lightweight wire which run to the top of your lcd screen) than you would need to install the right fitting on the end of the wire, and ground the other end so that it can absorb the wireless frequencies.

If the system has two sets of antennas, than you would not need to do this.
you would just have to simply install the second wireless card, and than the appropriate drivers.

I am not sure if you can use two wireless cards at the same time. I would think that they would fight each other.

K-TRON

 

Does that private AP belong to you, or are you connecting to someone else's network?

 

Does that really matter?

 

Helping people connect to private networks they don't own?

I'd say that it matters a lot.

But who knows, maybe he owns the AP. We'll wait and see.

 

It's not mine but its a public AP provided by a cafe. Anyway I just want to know whether two wireless card works in my notebook or not.

 

No, not helping anyone with that.
Sounds to me that he already knows how to connect to an AP, i only see a question how to put in a second wifi into the notebook so he could connect to two AP's at the same time

Anyways, we're never gonna see poeple not connecting to others AP if they're opened for anyone to use it, i see it as if they're totally opened it means it'' free of use, ppl who sets up AP in their home/work/whatever knows the risks if leaving it opened for anyone to use. Don't you think?

 

Not at the same time really. Plus your machine is likely only wired for 1 wifi, the other will be bluetooth or wwan.

 

No, not helping anyone with that.
Sounds to me that he already knows how to connect to an AP, i only see a question how to put in a second wifi into the notebook so he could connect to two AP's at the same time

Anyways, we're never gonna see poeple not connecting to others AP if they're opened for anyone to use it, i see it as if they're totally opened it means it'' free of use, ppl who sets up AP in their home/work/whatever knows the risks if leaving it opened for anyone to use. Don't you think?

 

Open APs are almost guarantees that the admin is clueless and not aware of the fact that everyone can access their network.

 

I really want to known if it's possible to connect to 2 AP's. It's easier to use just 1 mini-pci card and a pen drive wifi then 2 mini-pci's. Although I think it works for sure. I think it's like creatingnew connections (in windows) to a wired network. I have a pc connected to many different networks so it shouldn't be a problem to connect to different AP's.
The problem is the internet connection not the network connection. If you have several internet connections how do you choose the one to use with that program?

 

It is. At a college near me I was connected to the classroom wifi and to my friends laptop at the same time. As for the internet connections, some programs allow you to specify what ip address to interface with. Others, however, do not.

 

Over here it's totally the opposite as everyone that buys one gets informed about all those risks even those who don't know computers know the risk of having an AP open for public But i guess it's not the same everywhere..

 

I really don't want to open up a dispute on unsecured APs. I just want to know whether its possible to use two wifi cards and connect to two different APs at the same time. I think the antenna wiring is only for a single wifi card.

Btw, I do have a usb wifi adapter but I left it in my country so I dont want to purchase another one just for testing. Furthermore, I dont like to carry around so many adapters. I'm just thinking on how to utilize my free mini pci-e slot in the notebook. Now I'm thinking of getting a SSD for OS instead of wifi card. Do you guys think there will be bottlenecks?

 

I dunno, does facilitating theft "really matter?"