Dual Wireless Connection??

[frank84]

for my laptop, i have internal wireless card AND external pc card that i carry around.


right now, both of them are connected to a same access point.

which wireless device will windows use to communicate?


if my 2 wireless devices are connected to 2 seperate access point/wireless router, what would happen?

-frank

 

[frank84]

anyone??

 

[n0cmonkey]

if my 2 wireless devices are connected to 2 seperate access point/wireless router, what would happen?

You'd potentially be on two different networks at the same time...

 

[JackMDS]

In general it is a useless configuration.

You can not use the Internet with both in the same time.

It is hard to guess which connection Windows would pick; it depends on few parameters, if you want to force it to prefer one connection this might help, http://www.ezlan.net/metrics.html

If you have other specific goal in mind state it.

:sun:

 

[azev]

whichever connection has the highest metric will win.

 

[frank84]

Originally posted by: azev
whichever connection has the highest metric will win.

the thing is..

that is not what happend.

windows actualy choose 'weaker signal' to be used
found out by watching taskbar icon blinking..

i know it is useless since windows will only choose one,

just curious about things..

-frank

 

[Fardringle]

Originally posted by: frank84

Originally posted by: azev
whichever connection has the highest metric will win.

the thing is..

that is not what happend.

windows actualy choose 'weaker signal' to be used
found out by watching taskbar icon blinking..

i know it is useless since windows will only choose one,

just curious about things..

-frank

It's not "whichever connection has the strongest signal", it's whichever connection has the highest metric set within the network connection parameters in Windows. If you want to understand the difference, read the link that JackMDS posted. 🙂