Using Multiple USB Network Adapters for stability ?

[Omar Hatem]

Hi everyone !
I have an old pc which I use throughout the night as a download client.
It have no internal network card, and the routers are so far that I must use wifi.
So I use a USB network adapter to connect.
Thing is, when I leave it to download over the night, sometimes I wake up finding that a disconnection happened early on, resulting in a waste of pc usage over the whole night.
So I wanted to use 2 adapters instead of 1 to ensure that if one of them disconnected the other will carry on.

How can this be achieved ? will one of them override the other and cancel the effect of the one with the smaller bandwidth ?

I should also mention that when I tried to connect using both adapters (bearing in mind that both drivers & respectful apps are installed) there was no internet connection, although when I connected with only one of them, it worked smoothly !! Is that normal ?

The 2 network USB adapters are:
-LogN Wireless lan adapter
-TP Link TL-WN723N 150Mbps Mini Wireless N USB Adapter

*using Windows 7 86x

Thanks a ton !!

 

[Alabalcho]

If you designate of the connections in Windows as primary ("Connect automatically"), and connect to the other manually, Windows will switch over to "primary" connection when your secondary one fails.

ANother point: You must use some download manager which automatically resumes the download (unless you are downloading Linux distro's with torrent client).