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Fast Lane - doesn't make sense
Can anyone explain the advantages of Fast Lane because it doesn't make any sense to me? Either way you set it it amounts to 2.4GHz - either it's 5GHz from the router> 2.4GHz to the devices or 2.4GHz ...
the reason why is that when your a single radio (wireless chip/band) is having to receive and then retransmit dat, it cuts the bandwidth in half and increases latency. Reason why is it can't do both at the same time.
If you set 1 of the chips just for router--extender communication (fastlane) that chip isn't receiving and then turning around and rebroadcasting. Its able to pass it directly to the other band/chip in close to real time. the decreases the bandwidth and latency hit they take.
it still takes a little bit if one but its much less than standard extender mode.
Its also why the tri-band extenders work so well. they specifically setup with 1 of the 5ghz bands (higher throughput) for router----extender communication. and that enables the 2.4ghz and other 5ghz radio to communicate faster/lower latency.