Networking

[gaz_5103]

Is there any way i can connect to two different wireless networks at once?

 

[JackoR26]

2 seperate cards?

 

[Gareth]

yes two seperate wireless devices as said.

 

[gaz_5103]

is that the only way? is there no way i can connect to two different ones on one network card

 

[JackoR26]

No as you cant have the security settings

Surely they will be different subnets too?

 

[Stevo_172]

No as you cant have the security settings

Surely they will be different subnets too?

You can connect to two subnets and have two seperate interfaces in two different networks (via ethernet or wireless). If you did a netstat -rn on the machine (Unix of Windows) you'd see local routes to each network via each interface.

It's the same as connecting via ethernet and wireless at the same time. In this instance the machine would install a more preferred route to the network connection with more speed (probably ethernet).

For two wireless connections you would have to use two seperate wireless adaptors in the machine and would probably have to authenticate against two seperate ssid's to get it to work.

 

[@Spoonie]

Microsoft Research produced software back in 2003 to allow this although it has limitations

http://research.microsoft.com/~bahl/MS_Projects/MultiNet/default.htm

The whitepapers make interesting reading though if that kind of thing floats your boat...

 

[Tom]

WDS solves this surely?