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How is it that we still cannot combine wifi networks to increase bandwidth, is there someone working on that? (self.showerthoughts)
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[โ€“] discozombie 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

SD-WAN includes that but it is not its sole purpose, although I agree most vendors will say that's what you want. WAN/Link Aggregation, Multilink Aggregation, Link Load Balancing, Equal Cost Multipath, WAN Virtualisation, etc are ways to bundle multiple links together.

In WIFI terms, it's called channel bonding, it was proprietary and various vendors had their own implementations, see "Super G".

[โ€“] slazer2au 4 points 3 months ago

I agree but most of the wan optimisers have rebranded to SDWAN because that was the hype about 7 years ago.

With wifi specifically yea, trying to multiplex a technology that is effectively a CSMA/CA is hard and there is no interoperability.