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If you must use wireless, consider a wireless bridge

I've had endless problems with wireless drivers on several different Linux systems. These don't work very well (dropped packets, poor latency, low bandwidth, problems with system startup) and don't always recover from temporary interference or fading. In addition, they consume a large amount of processor time, particularly low end wireless interfaces that have minimal hardware and require the host processor (e.g. driver software) to do significant functions. Most of my Windows systems don't use wireless, so I've not a lot of experience with wireless drivers for Windows, except on an aged Windows XP lap-top where wireless was a disaster.

In some cases where the wireless activity disrupted the operation of the local computer, I've found it convenient to use a wireless bridge. I have a room where several computers reside that is not easily wired to my main network and I found that putting a wireless bridge in this room reduced the overhead on these computers, improving their performance. Surprisingly, the wireless performance was also improved, perhaps because the wireless bridge was dedicated to its particular function. Of course the network performance (latency and bandwidth) was still inferior to a wired connection, but I didn't want to drill a lot of holes in walls.


Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar



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