Can I use my second router with WDS only to receive signal and send it through LAN?

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Hello, I got TP Link TL-WR841N router in my apartament but it's next to the entrance door but my PC is almost on the other end of the apartament and I'm using TP Link wireless adapter, because I don't want to make the whole house in cables. My signal is good, but my speed is around 10-20MB/s and I'm paying for 50MB/s. Im considering to buy second router like this and use it in WDS bridge. My question is can I use LAN from the second router that will stay next to my PC and eleminate the TP Link Wi Fi adapter? It will be even better if I can set up my second router to NOT making new WI FI spot and irradiation me from so close distance? Can I use it just to receive internet and sending it to my PC via LAN?
 
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You new router will drop back to the 2.4g n mode with your old nic. It should work more or less the same.

Going 802.11ac will improve the speed...but maybe not the signal level because you are now using 5g. 802.11ac uses more radio bandwidth as well as puts more data into the radio bandwidth. Both those will increase the speed you get at a given signal level. Since the 802.11n does not change it will use the same bandwidth and encoding.

These type of questions are hard to know since they depend greatly on how your house is built and how much interference from neighbors you get.

I have no idea why that manufacture uses 4 antenna. Most manufacture put the 2.4g and 5g signals on the same antennas since they do not interfere...
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Why would you think it will be better. All you are more or less doing is using a wifi nic that is connected via ethernet. Sitting right next to your computer it will receive the same exact signal as you current nic. It might be slightly better if your current antenna are being blocked by your computer case. This type of stuff tends to be impossible to actually predict because there are so many variables but in general you distance to the router is the same so it will be about the same signal.

Now if you could say move it closer to the router by using a long lan cable it might help.
 
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Probably the dual antenna router will be better reciever than one antenna adapter?
 
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Thanks. I got two more questions.

Im concidering to buy new router Tenda AC6 with 4 antennas ans 5GHz and ac mode but my adapter supports just 2.4GHz and N mode. Is therr will be any major improvement because the two additional antenas??

What about if I change my current tp link adapter with tenda a12 repeater with 3 antennas,?
 
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bill001g

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You new router will drop back to the 2.4g n mode with your old nic. It should work more or less the same.

Going 802.11ac will improve the speed...but maybe not the signal level because you are now using 5g. 802.11ac uses more radio bandwidth as well as puts more data into the radio bandwidth. Both those will increase the speed you get at a given signal level. Since the 802.11n does not change it will use the same bandwidth and encoding.

These type of questions are hard to know since they depend greatly on how your house is built and how much interference from neighbors you get.

I have no idea why that manufacture uses 4 antenna. Most manufacture put the 2.4g and 5g signals on the same antennas since they do not interfere. Not sure why the repeater has 3 antenna, the documentation was not simple to find and I was too lazy to dig. The little I can find implies this is this is not 802.11ac it looks like 2.4g 300m which is the same as your nic card. If that is the case you will see no improvement.

Tenda routers are considered "budget" routers and are not sold a lot in the EU or USA. That does not mean they are bad it just means you have more issues getting support if there are problems.

You may want to consider powerline networks if your main concern is wired speed. The newer unit based on AV2 technology tend to work better in many houses than the older ones. Most these unit should get you the 50m you pay your ISP for....like wireless they lie and say they can run 1000m or 1200m. The older av200 for example only get about 30m. Watch the sales this week tplink units are some of the better ones and they were selling av1200 model for $30 last year on amazon.
 
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