PixL Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 Is there an easy way to connect to two wifi networks under linux and bind them together to get increased internet speed? Say if I was in the city and could connect simultaneously to two free wifi sources.... or if my neighbour wanted to lend me his internet... :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IDNeon Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 Just curious but you have two independent wifi adapters for your host? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forkish Posted January 19, 2018 Share Posted January 19, 2018 (edited) It’s called multi-wan. There!’s a few openwrt programs to not only make it happen but to get the most from it. Edited January 22, 2018 by Spoonish Spelling Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eyebot Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 On 1/5/2018 at 10:18 PM, PixL said: Is there an easy way to connect to two wifi networks under linux and bind them together to get increased internet speed? Say if I was in the city and could connect simultaneously to two free wifi sources.... or if my neighbour wanted to lend me his internet... :) Its important to know before you start that 5Mb + 5Mb != 10Mb. Multi WAN gets you more speed for more tasks, but doesnt make a single connection any faster. So the likes of BitTorrent might be faster but pulling a disk image from MSDN will be the exact same speed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PixL Posted January 21, 2018 Author Share Posted January 21, 2018 3 minutes ago, Eyebot said: Its important to know before you start that 5Mb + 5Mb != 10Mb. Multi WAN gets you more speed for more tasks, but doesnt make a single connection any faster. So the likes of BitTorrent might be faster but pulling a disk image from MSDN will be the exact same speed. It does if your WAN was the bottleneck for the speed to begin with... :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0phoi5 Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 On 05/01/2018 at 10:18 PM, PixL said: or if my neighbour wanted to lend me his internet... :) 'lend' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barry99705 Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 On 1/21/2018 at 11:13 AM, Eyebot said: Its important to know before you start that 5Mb + 5Mb != 10Mb. Multi WAN gets you more speed for more tasks, but doesnt make a single connection any faster. So the likes of BitTorrent might be faster but pulling a disk image from MSDN will be the exact same speed. You'd think they'd let you download faster... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave-ee Jones Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 16 minutes ago, barry99705 said: You'd think they'd let you download faster... You'd think people who have their business living in a place called 'Silicon Valley' would have faster internet speeds. That said, they probably have 10 GE wired across their whole building/s.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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