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   Knute Johnson to bp@www.zefox.net   
   Re: Dual wifi connections in Bookworm   
   24 Nov 24 16:21:17   
   
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   On 11/24/24 12:50, bp@www.zefox.net wrote:   
   > I've now got two wifi connections on my Pi5 running Bookworm.   
   > Following the latest update a day or two ago both come up   
   > automatically on reboot connecting to the same access point   
   > with the same frequency and channel. Using ifconfig it's   
   > possible to turn them on or off individually.   
   >   
   > The internal wifi shows a ping time of 5-10 ms, the USB   
   > external Archer T3U is generally under 2 ms, perhaps because   
   > it reports a stronger (~95% vs 75%) signal strength.   
   >   
   > Using both interfaces together seems to result in much worse   
   > performance than either one alone, which I didn't expect at all.   
   > Ping times reach tens of seconds under load, for example. The   
   > effect relliably appears a few seconds after applying the load   
   > using the chromium browser.   
   >   
   > I'm a little surprised that two interfaces are worse than one.   
   >   
   > Has anybody else seen this behavior?   
   >   
   > Thanks for reading,   
   >   
   > bob prohaska   
   >   
      
   I'm curious, what is the point?  Do you want it to go faster, use a   
   wire.  Are you going to connect them to different access points?  Do you   
   have two different networks?  You can plug in multiple USB NICs as well.   
      
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   Knute Johnson   
      
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