Bottleneck on LAN

mpapet · 10-22-2013, 04:08 PM

I've got a situation where two buildings are connected via a 10/100 ethernet connection using an optical device and this has become a serious bottleneck.

Frankly, I'd like to keep the 10/100 device and add a wireless connection between the two buildings to handle congestion, but I'm not sure if I've thought this through.

If I buy two wireless devices as a point-to-point bridge will traffic magically flow across it?

Here's an example of the device I have in mind. http://www.amazon.com/EZ-Bridge-Lite...o+point+bridge

cospengle · 10-22-2013, 05:04 PM

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Originally Posted by mpapet

If I buy two wireless devices as a point-to-point bridge will traffic magically flow across it?

Generally speaking, no - if you're lucky the packets will flow across one link or the other.

You may also find a more serious problem (depending on the smarts of you equipment) which will effectively kill your network, known as broadcast storm. So probably best to get rid of the 10/100 link.

mpapet · 10-23-2013, 12:22 AM

Thanks for the post cospengle. I suspected I didn't think this all the way through.

For the future reader, Openwrt has a nice summary of what the device configurations will be: http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/recipes/routedclient