Possible to use multiple wireless connections simultaneously?

[KSUdvm2b]

I'm running Vista, and in my school's library I am connected to two wireless connections, both with excellent signal strength (I believe they are 11 Mbps). With uTorrent running, am I actually using all available bandwidth, or are all the transfers going through a single connection? If the latter, is there anyway to use both connections? Thanks.

(this wouldn't normally matter as I usually sit directly beneath the 54Mbps router when I'm here, but with it being finals week the library is pretty full and I couldn't get my usual spot).

[Firon]

No, you're really only using one, and you can't use multiple wireless connections.

[KSUdvm2b]

Well that's a shame. Thanks for the info.

[Switeck]

It may be possible to run 2 uTorrents at once and have each one use a different wireless connection, however getting them to share data if downloading the same torrent is actually a serious problem.

[KSUdvm2b]

Switech, do you have any more information on that? I'm predominantly only seeding files, so that would work just fine.

[PerArne]

Not sure you would get higher speed but believe so. You can bridge 2 connections in windows.

As you only have one wireless by default you would have to have to add a usb wireless.

[hermanm]

As if abusing one wireless connection was not enough.

You could try reading this thread:

Can I Combine 2 Internet Connection?

> getting them to share data if downloading the same torrent is actually a serious problem.

Yeah, you would need to skip files in one torrent if the other torrent is downloading pieces associated with that file.

The other issue could speed drop because you have two active wireless connections very close to each other.

[Switeck]

You could see the same torrents using 2 different connections, just run 2 copies of uTorrent...and they probably could even use the same files instead of also needing 2 copies of files.

While downloading, you'd have to have 2 separate copies of files to prevent the 2 uTorrents from trying to write to the same file at once...thus the mess.

[hermanm]

If you kept two separate directories for each instance of µTorrent the torrent pieces would synchronize very quickly via Local Peer Discovery wouldn't it?

[jewelisheaven]

unless private=1 is set in the INFO dictionary, sure... as long as you keep the torrent directories synchronized through different auto-load directories, I guess.