I concur with redvli, that having two independent USB WiFi dongles, both connecting to the same AP, is unlikely to improve range or anything else; it's an abnormal configuration that is likely to run into problems. They will be competing with each other for radio bandwidth, unable to operate simultaneously.
A 2x2 WiFi configuration with beamforming can improve range, but I don't think that's possible with independent dongles (it requires very precise timing of the transmissions over the multiple antennas). What you probably need is a single 2x2 WiFi MU-MIMO USB adapter (i.e. one USB, two antennae (which is sometimes presented as two antennae inside a single blade-like antenna enclosure)). With a good MU-MIMO implementation, that can significantly boost apparent signal strength; e.g. my 4x4 WiFi 6 (AX) MU-MIMO AP generates a MUBF signal which can appear to be more than an order of magnitude closer to my phone than the true distance (a popular WiFi analyzer on the phone reports an estimated distance of 0.1-0.2m when the true physical distance is over 5m).
A 2x2 WiFi configuration with beamforming can improve range, but I don't think that's possible with independent dongles (it requires very precise timing of the transmissions over the multiple antennas). What you probably need is a single 2x2 WiFi MU-MIMO USB adapter (i.e. one USB, two antennae (which is sometimes presented as two antennae inside a single blade-like antenna enclosure)). With a good MU-MIMO implementation, that can significantly boost apparent signal strength; e.g. my 4x4 WiFi 6 (AX) MU-MIMO AP generates a MUBF signal which can appear to be more than an order of magnitude closer to my phone than the true distance (a popular WiFi analyzer on the phone reports an estimated distance of 0.1-0.2m when the true physical distance is over 5m).
Statistics: Posted by Murph9000 — Wed Oct 23, 2024 5:34 am