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I would like to know if I use WDS daisy chain to increase the coverage distance, what are the limits consideration before I will see significant performance degradation ? Say if I daisy chain, A->B->C->......Z, surely when Z accesses A (vice versa ) it will be terribly slow right ?
Regards.
the limit is whatever you can tolerate.
It's going to be very slow.
At about 6 hops you are getting quite slow.
Self-interference problems, the single radio doing two jobs, it all adds up.
I always set up relay stations with 2 radios. At most I use WDS in a leaf-node never for multi-hop backhaul.
At about 6 hops you are getting quite slow.
Self-interference problems, the single radio doing two jobs, it all adds up.
I always set up relay stations with 2 radios. At most I use WDS in a leaf-node never for multi-hop backhaul.
That's a good reply.
If 6 hops away and it is still bearable, I consider it something very good already.
Not many openwrt systems have 2 radios, what are you using ?
The mikrotik boxes can have a few radios based on miniPCI, but it's a little
pricey.
Regards
I use 2 WRT54GL connected by LAN cables.
Redesign someday would try Ubiquiti RouterStation.
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