Wireless Bridge Differences
- Thread starter Toves75
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I assume you mean AP. Calling it bridge is too generic and can easily be confused with other types of configurations.
To use the wan port a device must have a feature that understands the concept of making the device a AP. When you use the lan ports any router can be made into a AP because the router function is still there but it is just not used.
In general there will run about the same speed and it generally makes no difference to most real world installs. Now there are cases because of how the internal chips are connected that you can make the case the ethernet connected session might run fast going lan-lan rather than wan-lan. Still this is mostly some fake test condition. People that have real requirements that would be affected by thing like this are best off not using a consumer router to accomplish this in the first place. There is generally no difference in wireless connected session because the wireless will bottleneck before you are worrying about exceeding cpu capacity.
To use the wan port a device must have a feature that understands the concept of making the device a AP. When you use the lan ports any router can be made into a AP because the router function is still there but it is just not used.
In general there will run about the same speed and it generally makes no difference to most real world installs. Now there are cases because of how the internal chips are connected that you can make the case the ethernet connected session might run fast going lan-lan rather than wan-lan. Still this is mostly some fake test condition. People that have real requirements that would be affected by thing like this are best off not using a consumer router to accomplish this in the first place. There is generally no difference in wireless connected session because the wireless will bottleneck before you are worrying about exceeding cpu capacity.
The typical setup is like this.
Modem---(wan)Router~~~~~~Bridge(lan)------PC
or
Modem-----(wan)Router(lan)----------(lan)AP~~~~~~device
---- being ethernet
~~ being wifi.
Depends on what you mean by fastest. That is large files or video streaming need high speed while online gaming requires low latency. Either could be considered for determining the "fastest" connection. For low latency, removing the wifi altogether is the best approach. Ethernet is the guarantee of highest network throughput, but will not necessarily improve internet download speeds.
Modem---(wan)Router~~~~~~Bridge(lan)------PC
or
Modem-----(wan)Router(lan)----------(lan)AP~~~~~~device
---- being ethernet
~~ being wifi.
Depends on what you mean by fastest. That is large files or video streaming need high speed while online gaming requires low latency. Either could be considered for determining the "fastest" connection. For low latency, removing the wifi altogether is the best approach. Ethernet is the guarantee of highest network throughput, but will not necessarily improve internet download speeds.
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