Connect to two different networks using two different adapters

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simo2

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I'm currently connected to my own network using wire and to my neighbors wireless network (with permission of course) using a wireless adapter.

I do however, have another wireless adapter that I wish to connect to a hotspot near my house when I need the extra MB/s for downloads.

Is there any way to connect two different wireless connections at the same time? Windows 7 only allows me to use one wireless adapter at a time. If I connect using the second one, the other connection drops.

PS: I'm using Connectify to combine/balance all connections for faster downloads/surfing.

Screenshot of two 4MB connections combined: http://i.gyazo.com/437ec9f71536ad5968e307e0f20923ed.png

Any help is appreciated, thank you.
 
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You should be able to get 2 wireless connection up. One may appear to drop because you can only have a single default route.

Don't believe everything you see. You can't really bond 2 different ISP connections. There are 2 variations that I have seen used. Some spread the sessions over 2 connections. You can do this manually with no software and the route command. You would run some sites over one and others over the other. This lets you download 2 files at the same time but does not increase the download speed of a single file.

The second requires a VPN service. What they do is run 2 VPN tunnels one each connection. They then assign a single ip address at the far end. This in theory at least lets you combine 2 connection...
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bill001g

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You should be able to get 2 wireless connection up. One may appear to drop because you can only have a single default route.

Don't believe everything you see. You can't really bond 2 different ISP connections. There are 2 variations that I have seen used. Some spread the sessions over 2 connections. You can do this manually with no software and the route command. You would run some sites over one and others over the other. This lets you download 2 files at the same time but does not increase the download speed of a single file.

The second requires a VPN service. What they do is run 2 VPN tunnels one each connection. They then assign a single ip address at the far end. This in theory at least lets you combine 2 connection. The largest issue is of course the added cost of a vpn service. Most services that try to provide this do it on the cheap. To really work the VPN service and the client on the PC must ensure that the packets are not delivered out of order. If the latency between you and the VPN services on the 2 different internet connections is not almost identical it will cause massive issues since the VPN must delay the packets to make sure they stay in order.

Now the cheap services just ignore this issue and try to pretend they are really bonding them. Packet out of order is seen as packet loss by the end devices so you get massive data retransmission and session drops if the packets get greatly out of order.

Pretty much the VPN services that can actually do this correctly as so costly you are almost always better off buying a large ISP circuit. It will generally be faster than the best vpn service because there is not the overhead and distance involved with a VPN.
 
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