Two routers on one pc as bridge

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angeldoom22

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Okay so I'm not 100% sure on the best way to ask this but here goes, I recently got a hold of an old Asus deluxe p6t version 2 motherboard that I noticed has 2 ethernet ports on it. I am using this computer for our church, and in the future we are wanting to look into streaming our services. I understand that the best route for streaming is definitely ethernet but due to the distance of chord we would need I was looking into using Wireless connectivity, I had an idea that I'm not sure is even possible and if it is possible would serve any benefit. In essence if I take two wireless routers and plug them both into each Port of the motherboard and then use each router to individually Bridge the connection of a single wireless access point would I be getting any benefits such as a better signal reception since it's coming from two points, or would it not really matter at all or is it not even possible? Hopefully this makes sense and thanks for reading
 
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SirSub42

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Cool idea, and it may be possible with some tinkering. But essentially your computer will attempt to assign an IP address to each Ethernet port, so even if you bridge the routers, each Ethernet port would be limited by the wireless capabilities of the router. You would need to device some method to split the data being sent to that each Ethernet port can receive half the data, and then recompile on the machine to present the data.

Depending on what you plan on streaming, a few wireless repeaters around the church to make sure signal strength is top notch all over would be the best bet.

My only experience using two network ports on a motherboard was setting up a home firewall, where the Ethernet port from my cable modem attached to the PC and the second cable was outgoing, connected to my router so I could intercept all traffic coming and going to my network.

Great idea though!
 
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Aggregating two wireless connections will not help whatsoever if the bandwidth of a single router's connection is greater than the internet connection. But if each router has a reasonably poor connection that still functions with lower bandwidth than the internet connection then this may help.

Both routers will need to support client mode, this is where the routers will become clients to the WAP supplying the internet connection. It is likely the firmware on your routers do not support this functionality, in which case you could check third party firmware options such as Open-wrt or Tomato.

If you get the routers both working as clients you can connect ethernet cables from the LAN ports on each router to the motherboard. You will then need to aggregate the connections which is done many different ways with different software depending on the OS.
 
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SirSub42

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I suppose you are right, I looked into it. Pretty interesting. Though from my understanding, it's abilities are useful only in limited situations. For example, my wireless AC adapter maxes out at 450mbps, and my ISP plan is only for 550mbps. Though if the content was hosted locally and required more bandwidth than that, a 2nd wireless AC adapter could be added , but there are limited programs out there that will allow for the intake from each port into one stream. Normally, the host would simply keep each connection in mind, and use the one with the greatest signal strength.

How long of a distance are we talking about <b>angeldoom22</b>?
 
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A 1080p stream would require a minimum throughput of 10Mbs. If there's not too many signal-degrading obstructions, this can be easily achieved with a wireless bridge like these from Ubiquiti.

edit for clarity
 
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Thanks! I guess I'll give it a shot and report back. I'm not to coding savvy so I'll see how the drivers handle the adpater. The manual advertises using both ports as a way to increase total data input so I'll give it a shot when I can. Otherwise I'll just use the routers as repeaters!
 
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It's probably 75ft to 100ft to the router. About two walls between them . And if I can , I can use these routers i already have considering I have access to about 20 for free. But they aren't top tier. When I get home I'll see what model they are. But they were used as repeaters in the hospital that threw them out. So maybe just one or two to extend it. And one as a bridge will suffice.
 
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