Using two wireless adapters for twice the bandwidth?

Hi guys. Basically im using one wireless card and i get slight signal loss when playing online games. I have a spare usb wireless adapter, could it be possible to link both the adapters together to get twice the bandwidth?

 

try bridging the two connections

 

I dont think that is how bridging works. Bridging is used for sharing an internet connection.

 

That's not how connections work. If they did, then people would purchase 30 wireless cards and have 30 times the bandwidth...

You're being limited by the distance you are from the router and the bandwidth limit of your ISP. Adding more wireless connections will not magically decrease the distance to your router and increase the bandwidth that your ISP is giving you.

You want better bandwidth? Then go out and buy a better and faster connection and make sure that you are very close to the wireless router.

 

That is not always the rule... you can use a bigger better antenna to increase your connection to the router. Some wireless nics now come with 3 antenna on one card (mostly 802.11n stuff).

With a laptop you are somewhat limited for external antenna though. I have a second nic in my lappy and I will be installing a connection for a external antenna when I get the cable in the mail.

I dont know of you can use 2 nics together, but I doubt it is impossible.

 

Want work, MS does not know how to optimize the use usage of 2 connections. MS will always use the 1st connection. Only time you can use 2 is ICS. Now some SMB routers can use 2 broadband connections with the options of load balancing or fallover.

 

It's not possible, sadly enough. It'd be awesome to use two in parallel, like ADSL.

 

Im not quite sure you understood what i meant. I probably should have explained my problem more clearly.

My wireless router is downstairs (the only place where theres a phone line, its almost directly below me). I game on my desktop (has a wireless pci card). The speed of my ISP is fine (often d/l at 800kb/s ).

When playing cs:s online for example every 30-60 seconds i'll lag. Which is rather annoying as i always get shot! I know its because of the wireless connection because ive run a very very long rj45 cable down to the router and its fine!

Upon further investigation i downloaded net stumber to see what my signal strength was like. Signal strength was excellent, there was no noise but the signal would disappear for about 1 second every 30-60 seconds. So obviously this is the cause of my lag in cs:s, but im unsure why its doing it. Any idea's?

 

ideas? don't game on wireless

 

thanks for that suggestion (idiot). but its the only option i have. Anyone else?

 

Sounds like a high choke and loss problem in CSS...many people say wireless is teh problem...but most of the time its not...yes it is ''part'' of the problem but it can be fixed...

Which router do you have?

 

its not like i have permanant loss and choke, ive tried several things with rates, cl_cmdrate, cl_updaterate, rate, cl_interp etc.. Its 100% the wireless as ive used a network cable and the problem dissapears. I have a Netgear DG834Gv2 modem router (ive updated to the lastest firmware), a linksys WMP54G pci adapter and have also tried a netgear usb wireless adapter.

 

The M$ app for operating wireless networks is crap. I used I have my desktop wireless, but every little while I would get a disconnect and I wasnt getting the transfer speeds from my server that I wanted so I just ran the cable where I needed it.

Try using the network app that came with your wireless card, that helped with my dad's connection a while back.

If your router has 2 antennas, try adjusting 1. Above a omnidirectional antenna is a big dead zone... and you said you are right above the router.

Try making a amplifier for your antenna or get a better antenna. Desktop power supplys put off alot of interferance, maybe try an antenna that is on a cable.

 

Disable Wireless Zero Configuration in Services (run->services.mc). Might help especially if you have a Linksys card. Also make sure that you have your WiFI set to G only and disable any sort of speed booster (Afterburner whatever). Mask the SSID as well. Finally disable the SPI Firewall in the router.

Basically Netgear router suck and Linksys card suck. So you have the perfect combination. Netgear routers are notorious for dropping connection and Linksys cards (especially older ones) are notorious for having periodic lag spikes due to it searching for other networks. Therefore you want to make sure all the settings are the same and compatible so there wont be any conflicts and try to work around the hardware deficiencies.

 

ok guys thanks for the suggestions. Solved it! It was the windows wireless zero configuration. I read on another forum it will stop periodically to scan for near by networks. Yey no more lagging for me! Thank you!