Re: Help needed with home network configuration
Celejar wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Apr 2018 10:00:31 -0000 (UTC)
> Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> wrote:
>
>> Celejar wrote:
>> > On Tue, 3 Apr 2018 11:30:24 -0000 (UTC)
>> > Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> wrote:
>> >> [...]
>> >>
>> >> Yep, you've got the terms right.
>> >>
>> >> Does the buffalo also provide wifi access to other clients close to it?
>> >> or is it JUST trying to pretend that it's a client device to the
>> >> TP-Link?
>> >
>> > I'm not using the Buffalo to provide wireless connectivity to any
>> > clients. The page I linked to does have instructions for doing that,
>> > but I don't need it.
>>
>> Good deal. Using the buffalo as a wifi repeater would kill throughput
>> for everything connected to it :)
>
> Yes, I did have that impression. I even worry about whether its
> repeating function is hurting wifi for everything on the 2.4 GHz band,
> even those connecting to the TP-Link, but I really don't have much on
> 2.4 to begin with, just a couple of legacy devices (printer, old
> Android phone) that don't support 5 GHz and aren't using much bandwidth.
Pretty much it boils down to "repeaters" ... well, repeat. The smarter
ones these days (i.e. not linksys,etc) *MAY* only repeat when they have
a connected client.
Otherwise it's "Rx a frame [from the AP], Tx that frame". In effect,
this will halve the throughput capacity of your WLAN (on that channel /
frequency, anyway).
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