Router with 2 STA + 1AP simultaneously

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Hello,

I'm looking to connect to 2 WiFi networks as WAN and share that connection over another SSID no matter the last network channel will be.

Is there any router out there which supports having 2 interfaces as STA at the same time? If not what routers could support adding a second card through USB? Will a raspberry pi with an external card do the job?

Cheers

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Yes.

If the WANs are on different channels, no. All SSIDs must be on the same channel, or different bands (5.4 vs 2.4).

3

How can I find those? Which ones are them?

I meant that I'm looking to have 2 interfaces as STA connecting to networks on different channels or bands but I don't really care about what channel or band I use as AP. I'm just looking to combine 2 WiFi networks in to one.

4

Are you just extending the 2 wifi networks or something else?

5

I'm willing to merge both networks to improve the upstream bandwidth, I can't change the configuration of the networks I will connect to.

6

I assumed your doing this for redundancy so if one link dies it will switch over to the next which you could manage with one active connection at a time.

But for bandwidth, you will be effectively halving each link and then combing to get the average of the two at best.

I am thinking if you have good coverage a better solution would be to connect your clients directly to either of the two wifi networks and split them evenly or let the devices choose independently

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Not really, we are tied to DSL and upstream is very poor (800 kbps per link). We have 2 different lines set up at two different offices which are closeby and I was looking at using a router to connect to both as client and then share the connection on a new network as AP. I know there's things like mwan3 that should do the work and manage load balancing and I'm aware I will not get double the upstream bandwidth unless I use different ip streams.

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Can you please give me advice on how to find these?

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In the future, you may wish to open a new thread - or not wait so long to inquire...

From personal experience, I know WiFi cards that use the ath9k driver are capable of multiple STA connections.

Hope this helps.

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