PinkFloydEffect
Regular Contributor
I can not seem to figure out why that a router would eat or constrict bandwidth. I setup a subnet on a basic old TPLINK router, using a mesh range extender with Ethernet for the WAN and my desktop connected to the LAN. This allows me to pickup a WiFi signal and redistribute it on a subnet. With the mesh range extender connected directly to my desktop it provides a stable 200Mbps connection, but when I run it through the router my bandwidth drops to around 100Mbps however the latency remains low. It may be a 7-8 year old router but it says Gigabit right on it, and the bandwidth is not dropping to 100Mbps flat but around 115Mbps. I am using a static IP on the WAN side and DHCP on the LAN. The mesh range extender is also set up with a static IP, and the Ethernet port is set to auto because there is no static option just auto-on-off for DHCP.
I used the first IP on my core network for the mesh range extender (192.168.254.1) and the routers WAN is set to 192.168.254.2 which is next in the pool. Granted I do not have permission to reserve IPs on the core I figured I would experiment to see if it ever gave away my IPs. Maybe using the last IPs in the pool would have been a better idea? The gateway is 192.168.254.254 so maybe using .253 would be safer than .1 if anyone can confirm?
Any ideas? I do not think the static IPs are the problem.
I used the first IP on my core network for the mesh range extender (192.168.254.1) and the routers WAN is set to 192.168.254.2 which is next in the pool. Granted I do not have permission to reserve IPs on the core I figured I would experiment to see if it ever gave away my IPs. Maybe using the last IPs in the pool would have been a better idea? The gateway is 192.168.254.254 so maybe using .253 would be safer than .1 if anyone can confirm?
Any ideas? I do not think the static IPs are the problem.