Jim_Tod
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Need some advice.
My wireless router is in the living room. Various tablets/ phones/ laptops connect to this directly.
Couple of desktop computers in the study- one my photo editing computer. No easy way to wire these to the back of the router so until recently I've been using a netgear wn3000 wireless extender plugged into a gigabit switch which the 2 desktops, one of the printers and my NAS (My Cloud and a couple of WD USB3 drives for photo and backup) are plugged into. The range extender has always been temperamental when unplugged- fine in everyday use but if unplugged then it went back to defaults and did the old windows not recognised network- I'd play about for 4-5 hours and eventually it would come back. Happened again last week but this time nothing could get it to connect back to the router. I replaced it with a couple of TP-LINK Archer T9UH USB Wireless Adapters, one into each desktop.
That brought up the issue of 2 network cards as I still need the wired network for the NAS and I want the gigabit ethernet for photo transfers. I bridged the 2 networks in Network Sharing Centre (Win 7 Pro) and I can see everything wireless and wired
My whole network however just seems to have slowed, trying to open a folder on the NAS takes an age. I had to unplug my phot HD and photo backup HD and put them direct into USB3 slots on the photo editing desktop.
I wouldn't expect that sort of file exploring to be delayed because of the bridge with 2 different speeds of network adapter but will the bridging slow down the gigabit adapter or increase collisions etc that might slow things down?
Any advice on how else I could do this. Ideally I'd like both network adapters (wireless and wired) working together on same network if possible with both running at max native speeds and preferable within the same network environment to let me save things to NAS.
My wireless router is in the living room. Various tablets/ phones/ laptops connect to this directly.
Couple of desktop computers in the study- one my photo editing computer. No easy way to wire these to the back of the router so until recently I've been using a netgear wn3000 wireless extender plugged into a gigabit switch which the 2 desktops, one of the printers and my NAS (My Cloud and a couple of WD USB3 drives for photo and backup) are plugged into. The range extender has always been temperamental when unplugged- fine in everyday use but if unplugged then it went back to defaults and did the old windows not recognised network- I'd play about for 4-5 hours and eventually it would come back. Happened again last week but this time nothing could get it to connect back to the router. I replaced it with a couple of TP-LINK Archer T9UH USB Wireless Adapters, one into each desktop.
That brought up the issue of 2 network cards as I still need the wired network for the NAS and I want the gigabit ethernet for photo transfers. I bridged the 2 networks in Network Sharing Centre (Win 7 Pro) and I can see everything wireless and wired
My whole network however just seems to have slowed, trying to open a folder on the NAS takes an age. I had to unplug my phot HD and photo backup HD and put them direct into USB3 slots on the photo editing desktop.
I wouldn't expect that sort of file exploring to be delayed because of the bridge with 2 different speeds of network adapter but will the bridging slow down the gigabit adapter or increase collisions etc that might slow things down?
Any advice on how else I could do this. Ideally I'd like both network adapters (wireless and wired) working together on same network if possible with both running at max native speeds and preferable within the same network environment to let me save things to NAS.
