Extending the Network kills speed performance, would bridging do the same?
I have a Time Capsule in my basement and upstairs I have a very hard time getting a good wireless signal.
I decided to buy an Airport Express to try and solve the problem. I tried to extend the network with the AX and now my computer upstairs can get a good wireless signal, however the performance has dropped significantly. When I run a speed test on both my upstairs computer and my laptop downstairs I now get about 1.5 Mbit down/1 MBit up which is much worse than what i used to get (10-14 MBit down/2 MBit up).
If I were to hook the AX up to an ethernet port in my house (should be activated in the next few days which is why I can't try it now) and have the AX set up to work in bridge mode, would this improve the performance? I thought I read somewhere that extending the network could hurt performance (which I'm certainly seeing), but I don't know if that would apply to bridge mode.
Thanks for the help.
The way I understand it -
You're effectively doubling the network traffic - everything has to make 2 hops. The "extension" receives the data and has to re-transmit it to the main base station. Receiving, processing and re-transmitting takes time.
In reality, traffic can be much more than doubled. If the message from the computer is received by both the extension and the base station, and then again by the base station when the extension re-transmits it, the base station has to work out that it has received the data twice. This extra processing (ignoring duplicates) takes time.
With more data on the network, there's more chance of "collisions", so more re-transmits.
I think it's pretty amazing that it works at all!
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