Celejar wrote: > On Sun, 8 Apr 2018 00:32:05 -0000 (UTC) > Dan Purgert <d...@djph.net> wrote: >> If you have a device repeating a WiFi signal, it *will* use the same >> channel as the upstream AP. It *cannot* use a different channel. >> >> In the event you have a dual-band AP, and the following conditions are >> true >> >> - 5GHz uplink >> - 2.4 GHz for clients >> >> Then you are not "repeating" the WiFi signal to the downstream client >> devices (and the throughput losses I mentioned would not come into >> play). > > There are also apparently some units (even consumer grade ones), that > have two diferent radios both on (different) 5 GHz bands, so one could > use one for client access and one for uplink (although I have no > experience with this):
Well, nice that they're starting to do that ... it's still a Linksys, so (not having any experience with it either), I'd lean toward it not being that great of a device. But then again, my views are skewed by dealing with equipment that'll handle 50-60 (active) connections per radio (anything more, and there's simply not enough bandwidth on the AP -- granted wave-2 ac / MU-MIMO is quite interesting in that regard). -- |_|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
