05/04/2022, 09:41 AM
From testing with my Tenda MW6's here, the Ethernet ports handle just over 600Mbps throughput from one port to the other, whether it's between the WAN and LAN of the primary node or between two ports of a secondary node. This is with the Tenda mesh configured in bridge node, so should not be doing any routing. I have not tested with the primary node configured as a router.
The following is an iPerf speed test between my desktop PC connected to the secondary node and another desktop PC connected to the main router, i.e. Scenario #2 where traffic passes through the secondary node, through the primary node, then through the switch side of the Internet router and finally to the other PC:
This would become a bottleneck with Internet connections faster than 640Mbps or with network file transfers such as to a NAS, where files would transfer at roughly 80MB/s vs 118MB/s (~944Mbps) with just a decent Gigabit switch between the PC and NAS.
If you would like to try between two PCs, you can download iperf3 here, which is command line based.
For the PC to act as the iPerf server, run:
iperf3 -s
For the client PC, run:
iperf3 -c x.x.x.x -P 4
Replace 'x.x.x.x' with the iPerf server PC's IP address. The '-P 4' means run 4 parallel connections, must like how Ookla, Fast, etc. speed tests test against their server.
The following is an iPerf speed test between my desktop PC connected to the secondary node and another desktop PC connected to the main router, i.e. Scenario #2 where traffic passes through the secondary node, through the primary node, then through the switch side of the Internet router and finally to the other PC:
This would become a bottleneck with Internet connections faster than 640Mbps or with network file transfers such as to a NAS, where files would transfer at roughly 80MB/s vs 118MB/s (~944Mbps) with just a decent Gigabit switch between the PC and NAS.
If you would like to try between two PCs, you can download iperf3 here, which is command line based.
For the PC to act as the iPerf server, run:
iperf3 -s
For the client PC, run:
iperf3 -c x.x.x.x -P 4
Replace 'x.x.x.x' with the iPerf server PC's IP address. The '-P 4' means run 4 parallel connections, must like how Ookla, Fast, etc. speed tests test against their server.