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I have a weak connection and I have an antenna Wi-Fi card. Is it possible to get an improvement in speed if I connect both cards to the AP at the same time?

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If you truly have a single AP, it operates on a single radio channel, so if you connect to it with two separate cards from the same machine, they will both be splitting time on the same channel, so they will not get better speeds than a single card.

If your AP is a "simultaneous dual-band" (SDB) model, then it's technically two APs in one box, and if you could connect one card to the 2.4GHz AP and one card to the 5GHz AP, you could get better performance. However, most SDB APs don't expect to see the same IP address via two different client 802.11 links, so you'll probably need to use two separate IP addresses on your client, and use your client's OS to split traffic between the two IPs. This means that the performance of a typical single TCP connection HTTP or FTP download would not be improved by the dual-card setup.

Overall, it's probably more hassle than it's worth.

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