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Bridging wired and wireless internet

I'm moving into a 3 bedroom apartment with 2 others. Each room has its own separate internet connection. The problem is each connection is only 4mbit down and 512kbit up. We are each going to activate the internet in our bedrooms. Is there any way for me to combine the wired connection in my room with the other rooms (provided I set up a wireless router in the other 2 rooms). If so how would i got about this? Would I need 2 separate wireless adapters and how would I go about bridging them in xp or vista.

Or maybe there is a better way that I haven't though of.

don't know about vista, but xp doesn't do load balancing amongst multiple cards. best way i can think of would be to have a server running any version of linux or server03, run the load balancing, and have it a 4th nic (total of 2 wired and 2 wireless) output to a WAP.

its a bit more in hardware costs, you'd need a small server, 4 nics, and a wap. you can amalgate as many connections as you want.

i like freebsd for making router/firewall boxes, and plenty of lists like this exist for projects like that. don't know how you feel about linux, but its how i'd do it.

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i like freebsd for making router/firewall boxes,

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