Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 6 Apr 2018 10:00:31 -0000 (UTC) > Dan Purgert <d...@djph.net> wrote: > >> Celejar wrote: >> > On Tue, 3 Apr 2018 11:30:24 -0000 (UTC) >> > Dan Purgert <d...@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). -- |_|O|_| Registered Linux user #585947 |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: 05CA 9A50 3F2E 1335 4DC5 4AEE 8E11 DDF3 1279 A281
