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   Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot (libreleah@mas.to)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 02:48:59 JST Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot

   Been messing around with my network at home recently, and this guide was very useful:

   https://www.nerd-quickies.net/2019/08/20/setup-lan-wlan-bridge-with-openwrt-luci/

   I like to use ethernet, so I used this to configure a OpenWrt router to be a wireless bridge. That way, I can remove the wireless card on my main machine, and use ethernet instead.

   Annoyingly, I only get about 100Mbps on the bridge; might just be a limitation of the processor on the router (TP-Link Archer C7), but the actual wireless connection is about 1Gbps. It will be investigated.

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     Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot (libreleah@mas.to)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 05:39:22 JST Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot

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     I ended up switching back to my old wireless bridge for now - which consumes 10x as much electricity but gives me 400mbps on the bridge. The old bridge is a ThinkPad X230 running a really lazily configured debian. AX210 wifi.

     I'll revisit OpenWRT at a later date. A low-power device would be nicer, for this purpose.

     I really should just wire proper ethernet at the home lab. My main lab is ethernet-only.

     I should also stop using ThinkPads as routers. Libreboot supports more than just thinkpads!

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     Riku Viitanen (riku@mas.to)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 06:15:30 JST Riku Viitanen

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     @libreleah Weird, seems to me like bridging should use a lot less CPU than a full routing, NATting and firewalling access point. I have a ~similarly specced 802.11ac access point that has no trouble handling 1Gbps wired and 400-500Mbps wireless.

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     Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot (libreleah@mas.to)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 06:24:04 JST Leah Rowe is not a Rowebot

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     • Riku Viitanen

     @riku I'm 99% sure it's a me thing. Which is to say; I'm probably the cause of the problem.