Patent ID: 8503363

Claim:
A method comprising the steps of: operating a mobile router to establish a plurality of first wireless network interface devices operating on the mobile router as client devices on a first wireless network wherein the first wireless network provides accesss to a Wide Area Network (WAN); operating the mobile router to establish a second wireless network interface device operating on the mobile router as a host device for hosting one or more client devices on a second wireless local area network wherein the first wireless network and the second wireless network operate on different wireless network communication protocols; exchanging network traffic between the client devices on the second wireless local area network and network clients of the WAN over at least two of the plurality of first wireless network interface devices operating as clients of the first wireless network by receiving network traffic from the client devices on the second wireless local area network; aggregating the second wireless local area network traffic together; and, balancing the second wireless local area network traffic over the plurality of first wireless network interface devices established as clients of the first wireless network.