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Networking Gurus -- 4 computers - better via Wifi or use LAN bridge
Hi there
seems difficult to find a decent answer to this - but say you have 4 laptop users on your local LAN - is it better for throughput to just let them use wifi cards in their computers or connect the 4 computers to a fast router used as an ethernet-->wifi bridge.
The Bridge method seems to give more throughput - obviously people transferring several GB sized files over this type of arrangement will kill it but this happens very rarely.
The advantage of the Bridge also allows the computers that can't handle 5GHZ wifi to be connected to the router using 5GHZ and a router is generally full duplex while wifi cards --certainly the cheaper end of the market are generally half duplex.
Full blown LAN is obviously the best but I can't run loads of 1Gib/s Lan cable all over the place.
very difficult to get any serious info on this without going up into the hideously expensive world of Enterprise gear used by large server farms etc.
Cheers
jimbo