Connect to two Wireless LAN with single Wireless NIC

[GrandVizor]

Can you do this?

 

[navyjay]

No. Your software *may* have an option to chose the best connection of the two allowing you to roam between APs, but it's not possible to connect to both at the same time. You wouldn't gain any more BW out of it though, since the bottleneck is most likely your internet connection assuming you have cable or DSL.

What's your reason for wanting to do this?

 

[JeffMD]

actually the 2 wireless networks being in range of eachother would lower both networks max bandwidth. but yea, unless the card has 2 network chips in it or had a real special chip in it that supported multiple connections, you can't be on both at the same time.

 

[GrandVizor]

oo, ok.....
here is the scenario......there are 2 network, 1st net is xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, the 2nd is yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy.
the 1st net is natting to 192.168.0.1/24, the 2nd net is natting to 10.1.1.1/24.
i don't have control on the 1st net (including the router). the 2nd net i use Wireless Router.
i want to connect to the wireless net, and be able to access the 192.168.0.1/24, how to do that?

please help....

 

[Kelemvor]

If you just want to choose one, you should be able to do somethign in the wireless client to search for any Available Networks. The n normally you can choose the one you want and tell the client to connect to that one isntead of the other.

Or if you know the SSID (name) of each you can just make a profile for each one based off the SSID and just pick whiever profile you want at the time.

 

[ktwebb]

" actually the 2 wireless networks being in range of eachother would lower both networks max bandwidth."

Not necessarily. If the WLAN's are not on overlapping channels it would not be significant.