We had a guest speaker from ericson back when I was in uni. According to them that’s been a thing for a while now
How is it that we still cannot combine wifi networks to increase bandwidth, is there someone working on that?
Submitted 3 months ago by cuerdo@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Boomkop3@reddthat.com 3 months ago
LambdaRX@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You mean “Bing it”
Septimaeus@infosec.pub 3 months ago
In case you’re wondering about the downvotes, using any search index verbification other than “Google” demonstrates greater techno-activism than pointing out that DDG uses the Bing API. Your effort has been noted, however, and will be evaluated at the next summit.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 3 months ago
probably because it’s more complicated than just improving the bandwidth on single wifi networks, which we have been making steady progress on. picking the low hanging fruit first.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 months ago
We’ve been doing better time sharing since WiFi 6. Remember this all has to be backwards compatible.
WiFi 7 has its own new band and its really fast.
MHanak@lemmy.world 3 months ago
My guess is that a network card can handle only one network at a time
sexy_peach@feddit.org 3 months ago
Because it’s not useful. Two routers still share the same frequencies and thus can’t send more data over the same air. A single router can already use multiple frequencies to increase throughput. You don’t need two to do that. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIMO
sexy_peach@feddit.org 3 months ago
If you want to use multiple internet connections and combine their speed, that’s possible. Dunno how though and I guess to work best it would need a server somewhere else like a VPN to manage the packets coming from different ips
slazer2au@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Software defined wan (SDWAN) is the industry term for bundling multiple independent internet connections to maximise bandwidth.