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Connectivity of a gigaswitch and an Access Point
Good Afternoon,
I have connected the gigaswitch to the router, to increase the number of ports available for connecting devices.
I have just discovered Access Points and want to use an AC21200 Mb...
For really pushing things to the top, two Ethernet cables would be great, one for the WAC, one for the STB.
PeterJWag wrote:
I have just discovered Access Points and want to use an AC21200 Mbps v2 in a part of the house that the router can barely cover wirelessly.
Good plan in general. Whatever a "AC21200 Mbps v2" is. Any better description, make, model?
PeterJWag wrote:
In the room where the AP would be is a Virgin Media V6 TV box. I have some questions about how to best connect this lot together.
- If I connect the AP to the gigaswitch, rather than directly into the router, will there be a degradation in the wireless bandwith?
Assuming this is an AC2100 system, so 300 Mbit link rate on 2.4 GHz and 1.76 Gb link rate on 5 GHz, you can calculate with some average real-world data rates of 150...170 Mbit on 2.4 GHz and some 500...600 Mbit for 5 GHz. Still plenty of bandwidth for FullHD and 4K streams on wired.
PeterJWag wrote:
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- If I connect the V6 box to the AP, rather than the gigaswitch, will there be a degradation in the broadband signal that will inhibit performance of the box?
To the AP by wireless seems to be prohibitive (they talk of Ethernet or Powerline in the marketing stuff. No idea about the AP you have in mind, are there spare GbE port(s)?
Hi Schumaku,
The Access Point is a Netgear AC1200 Mbps v2, if you can put that into the context of the information you sent me, it would be really useful.
Thanks.
Still not a model number there are many "AC1200" class devices - WAC104 (no v2)? WAC120 (no v2)? EX6150 v2? Or any router with optional AP mode like R6xxx?
The WAC120 or the EX listed have only one GbE port, the WAC104 has for GbE ports. The Nighthawk routers - some only allow using one port for GbE uplink, other have poolry performing GbE "swith" ports (in fact software bridges and lack of hardware acceleration support).
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