Can multiple USB wireless adapters improve throughput?

25 Feb 2005 6:30 PM

Donald G. Davis

I'm new to wireless networking. There's a technique sometimes
used with dial-up modems by which two modems can be used in one computer
to speed data transfer. Would it also be possible to use, for example,
two USB wireless client adapters in tandem to increase the throughput
rate, or would they simply be redundant or conflicting?

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25 Feb 2005 9:34 PM

Coenraad Loubser

not worth the effort! they'd conflict. If you can sort them out to be on
different subnets, then you'd have to load some load-sharing software which
I doubt exist at a reasonable price!
Rather get a better antenna/ a device you can attach an antenna to! or
something with more mW output...

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"Donald G. Davis" <dgda***@blackhole.nyx.net> wrote in message
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> I'm new to wireless networking. There's a technique sometimes
> used with dial-up modems by which two modems can be used in one computer
> to speed data transfer. Would it also be possible to use, for example,
> two USB wireless client adapters in tandem to increase the throughput
> rate, or would they simply be redundant or conflicting?
> --
> --Donald Davis
>
> [To respond by e-mail, remove "blackhole." from the address.]

26 Feb 2005 8:02 PM

JOE

Improving signal strength and bigger antennas does NOTHING for
the rate of data transfer. You would need to combine the data stream
from two IP addresses, and even then you'd still need TWO transmitting
nodes. A 54g is a 54g. Adding more receivers simply reduces the
throughput of the TRANSMITTER by dividing bandwidth. You'd
need two TRANSMITTERS (I mean by this routers, of course, but
transmitter makes the point clearer I think), not just two more USB
cards. Software to up bandwidth by combining routers I'm sure
does exist, but not cheap and probably only for Unix.

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"Coenraad Loubser" <c***@ananzi.co.za> wrote in message
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> not worth the effort! they'd conflict. If you can sort them out to be on
> different subnets, then you'd have to load some load-sharing software
which
> I doubt exist at a reasonable price!
> Rather get a better antenna/ a device you can attach an antenna to! or
> something with more mW output...
>
> "Donald G. Davis" <dgda***@blackhole.nyx.net> wrote in message
> news:1109356219.156297@irys.nyx.net...
> > I'm new to wireless networking. There's a technique sometimes
> > used with dial-up modems by which two modems can be used in one computer
> > to speed data transfer. Would it also be possible to use, for example,
> > two USB wireless client adapters in tandem to increase the throughput
> > rate, or would they simply be redundant or conflicting?
> > --
> > --Donald Davis
> >
> > [To respond by e-mail, remove "blackhole." from the address.]
>
>