Motherboard for 5 wifi network cards

[andre_cornell]

Greetings to the forum. Let's see if I can explain myself...

I need advice on buying a motherboard. What I want to know is what the best motherboard option is for putting 5 network cards that will give internet to a series of virtual machines.

Currently I have 3 cards and 6 virtual machines that pull from those cards, which has led me to put 16 gb of ram (I think the motherboard doesn't support more) and I need a motherboard that supports more ram. Sometimes I notice that one of the cards has connection problems even though the wifi signal arrives well. I don't know if it's the card itself (conceptronic 54g pci) or if it's that the motherboard doesn't handle 3 network cards working at the same time.

So, I need a motherboard that supports a lot of gigabytes of ram (and slots for it), with 5 or more slots for pci or pci express and that doesn't have problems with managing 5 or more networks (if that is a problem).

Thanks in advance

[cobito]

Is there a special reason to use a card for each virtual machine? And why should they be Wifi?

[andre_cornell]

Is there a special reason to use a card for each virtual machine?

So that there are no problems between the different machines, sometimes I put a network for two machines but they "fight" over the signal. So I prefer them separately. (it's also that I have a series of network cards that I want to take advantage of). If the question is "how many routers are you going to pick up the signal from", it may be 5 or more. If you fear that it is illegal, it is not and I explain it if they require it.

And why should they be Wifi?

Mainly because the cards I have are wifi. I have the possibility to connect with two routers by ethernet because they are in the same room, but the rest…it's a lot of cable.

[cobito]

@andre_cornell:

Is there a special reason to use a card for each virtual machine?

So that there are no problems between the different machines, sometimes I put a network for two machines but they "fight" over the signal. So I prefer them separately. (it's also that I have a series of network cards that I want to take advantage of). If the question is "how many routers are you going to pick up the signal from", it may be 5 or more. If you fear that it is illegal, it is not and I explain it if they require it.

And why should they be Wifi?

Mainly because the cards I have are wifi. I have the possibility to connect with two routers by ethernet because they are in the same room, but the rest…it's a lot of cable.

It's that if there is no technical reason, everything will go much better with a single network card. I don't understand what you mean by that the different machines fight over the signal. In theory it is the host that connects and then the VMs use that network adapter in the way that best suits you but in a transparent way, that is, the guest systems don't even have to know that they are wifi adapters: they will see a wired network. Not to mention that the spectrum is going to be quite saturated.

All this that you propose I see as a complication of life. If you really want to throw it out there to see if any forum member can advise you on something… but I would approach the problem in a completely different way.

[andre_cornell]

Ok. I'll put it another way.

We have 5 internet services contracted, with 5 routers, 5 signals, and a single computer. As I think you can't connect a single card to the 5 wifis at the same time (I think).

2 of the contracted services have 6 mb and the other 3 have 3. Total about 21 mb of speed but distributed in 5 routers. I don't know if I explain myself.

The only way to be able to take advantage of (right now) those connections with a single computer is to put in the wifi cards I'm talking about.

I know that virtual machines don't know if the cards are wifi or wired (and I don't care either), but the reality is that I have 5 wireless cards, 5 internet connections with their 5 routers and… well that's the technical issue. Forget if you want the "fights" of the machines for the signal, it's not the main reason, it's what I've told in the other paragraphs.

thanks once again and sorry if I didn't know how to explain myself or if the issue is unorthodox

[Fassou]

A friend who has several Conceptronic 54g PCI ended up changing them because they cause a lot of problems <:(, besides, it's better to have PCI-Express cards that will always be more comfortable with the bus.

And this story, is it to have connectivity or for intensive use of all the WiFi's?

Salu2!

[andre_cornell]

As for the use, well, in principle I suppose it would be to make use of all the wifis, whether intensive or not will depend on the moment. But assuming it was intensive what kind of configuration would be appropriate? Although my interest in principle was in the board I understand that everything must maintain a balance, a proportionality, having to add more ram and a powerful processor

Thanks for the note on conceptornic. ;D

[Bm4n]

5 parallel internet connections, each connected with a wireless network card and assigned to a machine, right? That doesn't seem like a problem for any type of motherboard, and a current standard system (socket 1150) supports up to 32GB and up (socket 2011) 64GB. Depending on whether you make those virtual machines, one hard drive or another will be better.

If it doesn't work correctly, it may be a problem with the cards or signal reception, so many signals together in such a small space must be well divided among several frequencies, although the ideal would be a wired connection. What problem do you have to find a motherboard?

To give an example: Asus P9X79 WS 90-MSVDR0-G0UAY00Z Motherboard