Can I connect to two wireless networks at the same time?

drebo

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Not simultaneously, no.

To connect to two wireless networks simultaneously, you would need two wireless radios.
 

Billb2

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What parts do you have?
Is there a desktop that is now wired to the school net?
Is it just a the laptop that is now wired to the school net?
I assume the printer is a wired connection? To what?

I'm thinking a wireless access point will get you what you want.
 

JackMDS

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You can configure a Network that would allows wireless printing too.

However, a single Wireless Network card can connect only to one Wireless source at the time. :shocked:

That means that you either connect to the school Network or the Printer, but at the same time.

There is No, if, and or buts about it. :(

If you have two Network cards you can connect to both and Bridge the two cards. :thumbsup:
 

JackMDS

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Originally posted by: ArJuN
Thanks for the replies guys. What if I used a wired connection for the internet?

Then if the printer can work as a Wireless printer you connect it to the Wireless of the Laptop.
 

JackMDS

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Do you have a printer with Wireless capacity?
 

Tsaico

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If you can use a wired connection for your internet, couldn't you just get a soho router that can spoof your mac? While I was working at a hotel, we would sometimes split the internet connection to a single room to many wireless units this way. The hotel's buy system would control by ma addresses, and the router itself took care of NAT after itself.