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R6700v3 Wifi-Bridge Bufferflot
I was wondering if anyone else has tried using Nighthawk r6700v3 as a Wireless Bridge. If so, has any one else experienced bufferfloat and a decent amount of jitter? Within in my testing of the Wirel...
The firmware version currently on the routher is V 1.0.4.122_10.0.95 ( the newest one I believe).
The manufacturer is Altice and it is the gr240bg. The distance is around 20ish feet. If you're referring to whether or not i was using 2.4 vs 5ghz ( sorry I didn't understand what that meant), I was using 5ghz.
What channels are you using on 5Ghz?
Any Wifi Neighbors near by? If so, how many? Other wifi neighbors are around your home? What channels are they using on 5Ghz?
Try the R6700 a bit farther away from the host router? Or Closer?
Over all you'll have some bufferbloat as wifi has to be processed at the host router and at the R6700 in bridge mode. Nature of the beast.
To be honest I don't know. I have tried moving it around but get the same results. I have found that just testing any device for bufferbloat I would get better scores wirelessly and via internet sharing on two different computers to be more stable than using the r6700v3 as a bridge.
Honestly, you should not set for bufferbloat over wireless connections. There's too many variables in wifi that can cause bad or inaccurate results. Always test for BB over a ethernet connection to the ISP Modem first.
I have, but I've tested other wireless devices as well as see that more often than not, the r6700v3 adds more jitter and bufferbloat than natively wireless( and by a good margin too)