Does bridging LAN and Wireless effect speed?

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Okay, here’s the deal. I used to have my 360 connected directly to the router, since the TV was right next to my desktop. However, the TV has since been moved so there is no way to connect my 360 to the router anymore and it doesn’t have wireless, nor am I shelling out the money for the adapter(which I heard performs meh).

So what I did was connect the 360 to a laptop which connects to the the router. The first thing I did was check the connection with the router and I get identical speeds to my desktop which is directly wired… about 60ms ping and 2.0mbps(though this varies during the day). Anyways, so I narrowed down that the laptop wasn’t lowering quality. Then I bridged the LAN on the laptop with the wireless connection. This gave my 360 an online connection.

So… will the connection with the 360 suffer because of the bridging? I can’t really find a way to check… Black Ops sucks with connections, out of the three games I played two had 1-2 bars, but with Black Ops that always happens anyways. The last game I played was 3 bars, and it felt pretty smooth. But ya, Black Ops isn’t exactly a way to see how you connection is since most of the hosts suck. Downloads don’t show speed, only progress. So since I can’t check the connection directly I’ll just ask if bridging the connections like this will bring down quality, since my connection mostly sucks and I can’t afford to lose any speed lol.

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Try connecting your desktop to the laptop bridge and see what happens. This is probably about the wireless not getting the best reception. À bridge shouldn’t affect speed ( unless the laptops performance is shit )

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Well like I said, the laptops connection was ace, and identical to the desktop(sometimes it even gets better speeds, somehow…). So if a bridge doesn’t affect the quality then that’s cool because like I said, the 360 just doesn’t have a way for me to check the quality. However, I may bridge with my desktop to check.

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if you have a poorly made microwave oven running it will mess with wireless

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^^

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I used to do this. It really didn’t affect me much, but I think it all depends on Internet service.

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hard to say, there could be so many factors. But odds are, if the laptop’s connection is good, the 360’s will be good as well.

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That is what my brother does. All you are doing is piggy-backing your traffic through the computer. A better question would be: “Can my multiple GHz CPU route network packets for two devices fast enough? My 300MHz router CPU can do it for every device on my network but I just want to make sure.”

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Windows machines for routing traffic is never a good idea. Just because the computer routes the traffic poorly on windows, doesn’t make it bad when using proper routing software.

What I did with my old Xbox (that didn’t have built-in wlan) was that I took one of those free fonera WLAN AP’s and made it a receiver with built-in bridge. Worked like a charm.