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WDS vs. Bridging

Written by Start a WISP Site Admin
Friday, 25 March 2005
"I have WDS setup to bridge two networks over a 1km link. There are only to WDS Units in Total If I ditched the WDS and went to a bridged system would this be faster? I know lots of people say WDS is slow but I was thinking with only 2 AP's it would be as good as a bridge as it doesnt have to wait for more AP's to respond. Any idea's?"{mos_sb_discuss:7} senthilraj: Bridging should be faster than WDS. When you enable WDS your network throughput decreases by 50 % and should have 50% cell overlap.It is always good to use Wireless Bridges to bridge buildings. You can have bridges going to bridges. It is better to use bridges from a single vendor. shamanfk: It is a function of the software--how many MAC's a bridge can handle. cmaenginsb: Are you just conecting one radio to another? If you aren't using either as a regular access point then WDS is just as fast as briding. WDS is only 1/2 the speed if you are using one of the radios as a regular AP at the same time. Many of the low cost bridges cannot handle a lot of mac addresses in bridge mode, WDS doesn't have problems with this. Original thread location

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