I have access to multiple wireless networks around my house, is it possible I can like all of these 5meg networks to one large 50meg? I was thinking I could take an old computer I have and throw a bunch of wireless cards in there and then make 1 vpn?

Sorry in advance if this sounds stupid!

2/14/2010 4:53:52 PM

this is the dumbest idea i have every heard

don't use other people's wireless

read stories like this: http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2006/06/7111.ars

2/14/2010 4:58:31 PM

Apology accepted.

2/14/2010 4:58:49 PM

i wouldn't waste my time or money to try to make this possible i was just wondering if this would technically work?

2/14/2010 4:59:57 PM

No.

and no.




In networking 5+5+5+5+5+5+5+5+5+5 =/= 50. It does = redundancy.

2/14/2010 5:14:41 PM

technically you could bond/aggregate the interfaces and get more than a single 5mbps in terms of throughput, but you'd have a bunch of parallel connections, not a single giant one

2/14/2010 5:25:30 PM

^ ding ding ding

2/14/2010 7:55:38 PM

It's called load balancing. Look it up.

Examples of devices that would enable you to do what you're envisioning:
http://www.peplink.com/balance/

2/15/2010 4:39:27 PM

wow

i'm sure none of us have ever heard of that!!1!

2/15/2010 4:41:45 PM

For any transfer client that supports multiple parts, you could use multiple connections to increase speed.

ex: a bit torrent client that could bind to 10 external addresses could download the parts accross all 10 connections. Essentially operating as 10 different clients according to the tracker, but limited in what parts each client wants to download.

For things like http it would be useless.

2/15/2010 4:50:09 PM

pfSense

2/15/2010 5:04:27 PM