Multiple Wireless Connections
 

Is it possible to somehow connect to multiple wireless connections at one time to maximize my download speed? I want to somehow maximize download speeds using multiple cable modem connections fed through wireless routers. Wasnt sure on the possibility of this. Not sure if it matters, but I am on a Centrino laptop.

I'm not aware of a way to do this... It sounds feasable, but I think it would require extra client-side software. Something that can download different parts of the file, coordinated, and then put it back together. Since a resume functionality works with wget and kget and other programs of the like, It should be somewhat of a simple matter to patch in the ability to grab different parts of the file at the same time -- over different net connections.
Thing is, I don't think there's much of a demand for this sort of program. How many people have multiple simultaneous connections available at a given time? Also, you'll still be limited by the bandwidth of the host.

--Shade

you could, if your server allowed multi-link. your best bet is switch to 802.11g card, it allows rates up to 64M while b is only good to 11M I use 11M 802.11b card, and can watch movies and stream music. mandrake (all 4 disks) took less than 2 hours to bittorrent d/l thru cable modem. If you are a true speed junkie, and have the dinero, go with a firewire or optical connection :D

G is 54mbit/s.

But anyway, we're talking wireless here -- of course optical or firewire would be optimum for transfer from the modem to your unit, but what if you're using a network shared connection? Also, this doesn't help increase the bandwidth you're getting from the cable modem itself.

--Shade

let me get this straight so a g is 54mbit/s so that's 6.75 megabytes per second so it's slower than a 10 megabyte ethernet card?

Well, that would be true if there were such a thing as a 10 megabyte/second card... there are 10Mbit/s cards, though ;)

When you're talking networking, you're normally talking in bits, not bytes. All the same unit.

--Shade

There are 128Megabyte/second ethernet cards, they are called Gigabit ;)

Anyway, the linux kernel provides 'bonding' drivers which allow you to do this as long as you have an interface. I know it works with ethernet, not positive about wireless but I dont see why it wouldnt work.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/bonding

bah you'll find that shades point overwhelms in this issue...only in special circumstances will this help. probably not worth the time, but if you want a little project then cool.