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RBR750 How To Max Performance
I have gigabit fiber coming into the house and I have speed tested it; consistently close to 1g speeds at the router. The house is wired with cat 5e cables in the walls with ports in each room. The c...
DaveHH wrote:
Is it better from a performance standpoint to run the satellites wired with the limitations of cat 5e or run them wireless?
Ethernet backhaul will outperform WiFi backhaul because:
- Ethernet is full duplex, meaning that traffic can go in both directions at the same time, whereas
- WiFi is one device at a time, meaning that the router, one satellite, or the other satellite can broadcast while the other two must 'back off' and wait their turn.
- With Ethernet backhaul, there are separate links to each satellite which can both operate at the same time (in both directions).
- Ethernet has almost no overhead compared to WiFi which loses a huge amount of capacity to management frames and to all that waiting for permission to talk.
At these distances, Cat5e supports gigabit with no problem.