# Connect Multiple Drones with ground computer over wifi

**URL:** <https://discuss.px4.io/t/connect-multiple-drones-with-ground-computer-over-wifi/5904>\
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**Created:** [March 3, 2018, 12:12am UTC](https://discuss.px4.io/t/connect-multiple-drones-with-ground-computer-over-wifi/5904 "2018-03-03T00:12:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Yograj\_Singh\_Mandloi](https://discuss.px4.io/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/d78d45/32.png) [@Yograj\_Singh\_Mandloi](https://discuss.px4.io/u/Yograj_Singh_Mandloi)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2018, 12:12am UTC](https://discuss.px4.io/t/connect-multiple-drones-with-ground-computer-over-wifi/5904/1 "2018-03-03T00:12:19Z")

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I want to control Multiple UAVs with Qgroundcontrol (similar to this [simulation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKep_iQlduY)) over wifi. For single drone control, I can connect my pc to the wifi of a drone but I can’t change to select other UAVs in Qgroundcontrol as shown in that simulation. I am not sure but I think I need to make my pc as a router and then connect drone to wifi of my pc (opposite to what I do for single drone control) or I need to connect my pc with a wifi router using LAN cable and then connect each drone to that router?

Thanks for Help!

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**Author:** ![dennisss](https://discuss.px4.io/user_avatar/discuss.px4.io/dennisss/32/3541_2.png) [@dennisss](https://discuss.px4.io/u/dennisss)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2018, 3:11pm UTC](https://discuss.px4.io/t/connect-multiple-drones-with-ground-computer-over-wifi/5904/2 "2018-03-05T15:11:51Z")

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We did this a while ago along with a custom software package that we created for programmatically spawning and controlling simulated drones and similarly controlling physical drones with predefined choreographies: [https://github.com/dennisss/tansa](https://github.com/dennisss/tansa).

Anyway, the network configuration that we used was: a wifi router connected over ethernet to a laptop. Each drone using MavESP8266 and configured on a different static ip connected to that router. Also important is to make sure that the mavlink mode in PX4 is configured to ‘custom’ or another low-rate mode to not congest the network. Otherwise things can get crazy. So far this is the best WiFi based setup we’ve tested and has been tested with up to 8 drones simultaneously.