Hop To It: Kanguru Micro Drive With USB 2.0. hop to it....

Hop To It: Kanguru Micro Drive With USB 2.0. hop to it....

• -Hop To It: Kanguru Micro Drive With USB 2.0
• -Hop To It: Kanguru Micro Drive With USB 2.0
• -Hop To It: Kanguru Micro Drive With USB 2.0
• -Hop To It: Kanguru Micro Drive With USB 2.0

Figure 6: "Two hop" WDS Bridge w/ Repeating To mix things up a little bit, my choice for the third AP in this example is the ASUS WL330 [reviewed here Device SSID MAC address IP address Belkin F5D7130 belkin54g_1 00 30 BD 91 BB FA 192.168.3.250 ASUS WL300g WL300g 00 0C 6E 34 9A AE 192.168.3.230 ASUS WL330 WL330 00 0E A6 22 A2 14 192.168.3.225 Table 2: Two hop AP Info summary Figure 7 again shows the Bridge setup screen for what is now the middle WDS AP, this time with an additional MAC addr... Figure 7: ASUS WL300g Wireless Bridge setup - two hops Figure 8 shows the Wireless Distribution System screen for the WL330 (which is strangely located in the Access Control section). Figure 9: Throughput comparison - Base AP and two hops (click on the image for a full-sized view) The 1.8Mbps average throughput that I got when associated with the WL330 at the end of the WDS chain (bottom trace) seems low at first glance, but makes sense when you think about it....

Figure 16: Two pair test - Two Buffalo Tech WLI-CB-G54 (click on the image for a full-sized view) This plot just happened to do the sharing during the downward throughput hop. It's interesting to note that whatever the mechanism is that's causing the hopping throughput, it didn't cut the throughput yet again in half when the second draft-11g client kicked in. Figure 17: Four condition throughput (click on the image for a full-sized view) The hopping throughput problem makes the plots not very useful, but I included the screenshot so that you can see the Max, Avg, and Min throughput numbers for each run....