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If I have two of the same 150Mbps wireless N routers hooked into a main non-wireless router as wireless repeaters (DHCP disabled on wireless routers and they are essentially no longer routers) does their independent bandwidth stack effectively equalling 300Mbps?
I would have them spread over the house such that they would really be acting as range boosters and I imagine by default the answer is that they are not currently stacking but perhaps some configuration adjustments might allow this?
I see nothing stopping it except the capability of the wireless cards connecting to them.
I guess another or better question is do two identical non-routing wireless routers complement each other or fight each other? ie, If I were to have 4 of these same routers, would my wireless network be capable of 600 Mbps?
What if, for instance, I got two 300Mbps USB wireless adapters for my computer and bridged them. Also assume the routers are within about 20-25 feet. Would this machine be able to get the full 600Mbps? – Enigma – 2013-02-14T03:07:57.367
@Enigma, unless it has two WiFi cards, and you do some serious configuration work (bonding the interfaces), no. – vonbrand – 2013-02-14T03:42:04.660
1Bridging is not bonding. Bridging turns your computer into a switch. Bonding makes multiple physical interfaces appear to be a single interface to your OS, combined with one of several methods to distribute frames/packets between the interfaces. There is almost no way you would get 600Mps. getting the frames distributed perfectly simply won't happen. packets will arrive out of order across the multiple links, causing issues. – Zoredache – 2013-02-14T04:12:46.187