Multiple network wifi cards to get faster speeds?

[Longbow1]

So i have been told that you can only use 1 wifi card per system to access the internet.  Why is this?  Servers use 4 port NIC's all the time to expand basndwidth, so why cant regular home users do the same thing?  Just curious.  I just built a new rig with a MSI mobo that has a AX wifi chip(ax201 160mhz) installed.  My router in 35 feet away and there are 2 walls.  I pay for gig internet, which i have confirmed using ethernet.  So i know that onbaord wifi sucks. And i know that AX wifi does not have good range at all.  So installed a older asus ac wifi card(pce-ac68).  The older card has a tri antenna that has a 4 ft cord.  I get around 250 Mbps on the the ax chip, but it has very fast responce time on speedtest.  But then when i use the Asus ac card with tri antennas, i get around 450 Mbps, but it take a few secs to get up to speed. I just ordered the new asus PCE-AXE58BT, to try to get better speed since i am paying for gig internet.  The room that has the router, get about 975 on wifi from about 6 ft away.  How do i get those same speeds from 35 feet away?  I was think that if there was a way to run multiple wifi cards, like servers runs NICs, then i could realize my full band width over wifi.  

Am i wrong about this?

 

Suggestions?

 

Thanks

[Lurick]

AX 5GHz has the same range as AC 5GHz WiFi, you specifically need 6E for 6GHz which does have lower range but it will fall back to 5GHz or 2.4GHz depending on the signal quality/strength.

 

Servers have multiple NICs for redundancy and load balancing but that's not a single flow of information that's going to be faster. Think of it like multiple lanes to a highway, your car can only go so fast in one lane, other cars can go just as fast but you can't drive two cars down the same lane at once to the same place. It's not a great analogy but it gets the job done I think. Adding multiple NICs (wireless or wired) will only increase throughput for multiple connections, not a single one. SMB3 can allow for this locally on the network between two clients that both support it but NOT leaving your network.

[RAM555789]

I think theres 3rd party apps out there that can help to try and combine the speeds of the 2 cards (i've heard speedify might be able to do this).

[LIGISTX]

16 minutes ago, Longbow1 said:

So i have been told that you can only use 1 wifi card per system to access the internet.  Why is this?  Servers use 4 port NIC's all the time to expand basndwidth, so why cant regular home users do the same thing?  Just curious.  I just built a new rig with a MSI mobo that has a AX wifi chip(ax201 160mhz) installed.  My router in 35 feet away and there are 2 walls.  I pay for gig internet, which i have confirmed using ethernet.  So i know that onbaord wifi sucks. And i know that AX wifi does not have good range at all.  So installed a older asus ac wifi card(pce-ac68).  The older card has a tri antenna that has a 4 ft cord.  I get around 250 Mbps on the the ax chip, but it has very fast responce time on speedtest.  But then when i use the Asus ac card with tri antennas, i get around 450 Mbps, but it take a few secs to get up to speed. I just ordered the new asus PCE-AXE58BT, to try to get better speed since i am paying for gig internet.  The room that has the router, get about 975 on wifi from about 6 ft away.  How do i get those same speeds from 35 feet away?  I was think that if there was a way to run multiple wifi cards, like servers runs NICs, then i could realize my full band width over wifi.  

Am i wrong about this?

 

Suggestions?

 

Thanks

The real answer is… just run a wire. There is ALWAYS a way to run a wire, trust me. Run it along the baseboards, through the ceiling, whatever you have to do, there is always a way. 

[Lurick]

Additionally WiFi is a SHARED medium, interference and other factors can make speed vary wildly even mere moments apart. Antenna placement, alignment, etc. also play important factors here. Your AX card doesn't mention having a cable to extend the antennas but your AC card does so that's another variable too if that's the case. Walls and other obstacles WILL block some of the signal decreasing speed at greater distances too.

[Alex Atkin UK]

14 hours ago, Longbow1 said:

So i have been told that you can only use 1 wifi card per system to access the internet.  Why is this?  Servers use 4 port NIC's all the time to expand basndwidth, so why cant regular home users do the same thing? 

You need to think of WiFi like a single ethernet port that is being shared across all the clients, rather like how ethernet hubs used to work.

 

Each channel is its own port, so with WiFi 6e you would have three different ports.  Everything connected to the same channel is sharing with each other, plus WiFi can only transmit in one direction at a time which also limits the total speed.

If you were connected to two different channels at the same time you COULD "in theory" combine them, in fact rumour is WiFi 7 will let you connect to all three at the same time to achieve exactly this.  But as it stands right now, Windows isn't designed to handle more than a single path to the Internet at the same time.  There are likely hacky ways to do it and it "might" be possible for local file shares, but I've not looked into that as if you really need to move a lot of data then wired is the way to go.