Thread: Repeater Help
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Old 11-03-2012, 14:27   #3
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Re: Repeater Help

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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq View Post
Halving your bandwidth is part of how repeaters work. It has to spend half the time receiving from the main router and half the time retransmitting from it. Since wireless is half duplex, it can only do one at a time, so you end up with half the speed.

The WA730RE looks like it's one stream, and guessing your Bebox is set (as it should) to 20Mhz mode, the maximum raw connection rate of the repeater will be 65mbps, which halved would give you ~30mbps, but due to wireless inefficiencies only 10-20mbps useable data. So it all looks, fairly normal/expected.
Hmmmm, not the answer I wanted to hear, but thanks anyway. So it looks like it's a tradeoff between responsive browsing and download speeds. I'll have to mull that over, but I'm tempted to stick with the snappier browsing.
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