System and method for extending range and coverage of bandwidth intensive wireless data streams

A method of providing WiFi wireless local area network access to a user, the method comprising:

• accessing a wireless network with first wireless transceiver circuitry associated with a first WiFi wireless access point, the first WiFi wireless access point having a first coverage area;
• enabling direct wireless access to the wireless network within the first coverage area;
• establishing a wireless link between the first WiFi wireless access point and second wireless transceiver circuitry associated with a second WiFi wireless access point, the second WiFi wireless access point having a second coverage area;
• configuring the first wireless transceiver circuitry and the second wireless transceiver circuitry with distributed logic associated with the first WiFi wireless access point and the second WiFi wireless access point, wherein the configuring includes, for each WiFi wireless access point, aggregating a first sub-group of multiple access transceivers to define a first virtual link, and a second sub-group of the multiple access transceivers to define a second virtual link, and configuring at least one of the multiple access transceivers in a random on-demand manner to have a first portion of its bandwidth allocated to the first virtual link, and a second portion of its bandwidth allocated to the second virtual link.

A WiFi wireless access point, comprising:

• wireless transceiver circuitry, configured to (1) establish a WiFi wireless link to a wireless local area network, (2) provide wireless access to the wireless link within a first coverage area, and (3) establish a wireless link to a second WiFi wireless access point;
• processing logic that cooperates with second processing logic of the second WiFi wireless access point to define distributed processing logic, the distributed processing logic configured to control the wireless transceiver circuitry;
• wherein the wireless transceiver circuitry includes multiple access transceivers that each provide a given bandwidth and that are aggregated to define a single virtual link with an available bandwidth greater than the given bandwidth;
• wherein the distributed processing logic defines the single virtual link with an available bandwidth that is based on an indicator of wireless transceiver availability that is fed back from the wireless transceiver circuitry to the distributed processing logic.