Hello , first:
hi im new here i hope i posted this in the correct way and in the corect place.
Ive been braking my head on and of on this problem for quitte a while now , and wile im usually great at figuring things out this one i think i need help.
Offcourse there are allot of guides and other forum(s)-topics that deal with the subject but cant find a sollution… because in every circumstance you can think of what im trying to do is prettymuch useless , but not in mine here is what i try to do:
connect with 4 wifi adapters (but im happy if i get it working for 2) attached to the same pc , to the same SSID. the SSID is shared by multiple accesspoints , and has a badly setup WPA2-Enterprise config (not in my contol) most of the time it reports that it uses PEAP-msvchapv2 , without CA-cert. but with Username and password. and to make matters worse , the connection is at times shotty at best (while signal power is at 79%),we get 5 “slots” on the network meant for 5 devices to connect ( think 2 phones laptop tv pc for the average family) but each of those slots is limited to ~2MB/s (~16~20Mbit/s) and this is the reason why i mentioned earlier that what i tried to do is useless most of the time… on many forums they rightly say that using 2 wifi connections to the same AP has no speed benefit since if the medium is saturated an extra connection wil just half the speed of the first. but in my case the actual connection is limited (i dont own a tv but i can download at 2mb/s on my pc , phone and laptop simultaniously without much trouble.
so bonding two connections wold make sense for me both in terms of speed and connection redundancy ,
i think i have everything needed biuld in to my kernel (config here --link removed since not permitted but id: “ZBDVVeVZ” on pastebin ) , and i use iwd+NetworkManager (and systemd) at the moment but i dont mind switching back to wpa_supplicant if need be .
(setting up WPA2-enterprise connections on commandline is only possible by manually writing the configs as both nmcli and nmtui (and iwctl) have no support for creating new connections with wpa2-e:peap/msschapv2 , so when i try to use the gui’s to create a bond / team there are some odd things : using kde: creating a bond only has ethernet and infiniband in the dropdown, using exactly the same tool (systemsettings5) but loaded from within lxqt does list wifi and more but when i set them up or the adapters connect individually (and not as a team) (i do have to use a different name for the connection buut i can keep the ssid’s the same and restrict the connection to a specific mac adress) or it tries to connect as a team/bond but never actually gets a connection … anybody an idea how to do this or a greate resouce on this specific situation
thankx in advance.