G+_Skip In Perth Posted July 26, 2013 Share Posted July 26, 2013 Hi +iyaz akhtar and other readers, Picture this I am sitting on my lounge with my laptop connected to the home WIFI. At the same time as I sip my coffee I am copying files to a wireless storage drive , so that's another WIFI access point (AP) let's say for example it is a SanDisk Connect Wireless Media Drive http://bit.ly/13iNv0w. Yeah I know why would you want to do a thing like that (let's just assume you do want to for now). My first response was oh no you can't do that with just one wireless card, but it turns out it is not necessarily a "no" answer. Way back in 2002 to 2006 Microsoft were doing some research and made VirtualWiFi software http://bit.ly/13aYkXj and gave WIN XP a virtual WIFI card driver layer. It only has limited WEP which means not worth using as most AP will need WPA2. The link does mention that Win 7 has Native 802.11 Virtual WiFi OIDs (Windows Drivers) http://bit.ly/14S3IjP. After reading that, it kind of hints that some WIFI (card+driver) may support virtualisation to the OS. My question is has anyone used the WIN 7 WIFI virtualisation? Is is there and can you connect to two AP's concurrently. I see that people in the future will have an increasing need to connect to connect to multiple WIFI concurrently. Another example is with the new Nexus 7" with no sdcard you may want to connect to a wireless hardrive AP and your home AP concurrently - could Android OS do this? Would this make a good Know How episode? Picture this I am sitting on my lounge (again) connected to the home WIFI and an Internet WIFI hotspot next door. In Win 7 with two Virtual WIFI interfaces can I bridge the two interfaces thereby giving me a #bonded channel and potentially extra Internet throughput. I don't have a WIN 7 machine so how much of this is available? Does Linux have this? ( #virtual #WIFI #OID #interfaces #VirtualWiFi #nexus7 ) http://bit.ly/13iNv0w Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Sandra Fisher Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 Sounds very interesting for a Know How....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Matt Bonnett Posted July 29, 2013 Share Posted July 29, 2013 Unfortunately it depends on card manufacturers adding support for the feature into their drivers. I have a very common Intel 4965 adapter that does not support it and I think many Intel models from that era don't either. I'd love to use the feature but... :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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