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I am a little new in this area so if you don't mind I am gonna ask a few more questions. If I were to do bridged mode, I should just leave my Xiaomi router as router mode instead is that right?

I have a internet connection at home and the Router that the ISP provided is a Huawei HG659b which has poor WiFi management and range. I bought a new router (Xiaomi 4A) which does not have VLAN tagging which is required by my ISP so I can't swap it out completely. The Huawei one supports Bridging mode, so I am wondering whether should I use Bridging Mode or AP mode? I am going to connect the new Xiaomi router by LAN to the old router either way and turn off its WiFI signals. Which is the best option?

Not sure if you have taken action but since it is a Dell I would recommend going to the manufacturers Service Manual as they do state the maximum port speed. Coincidentally I am using a Dell as well and for my device while the actual hard drive port is running SATA III the disk drive port is only running SATA I. I swapped out my HDD for an SSD and placed the HDD in a HDD Caddy. Might be just my laptop but I am experiencing quite a drop in battery life as a result (probably cause the HDD is always leeching power compared to the CD Drive which was constantly idling). I going to use it for a while longer and I might change the HDD for a cheap SSD or just take it out altogether and put the CD Drive back.

But comparing the number of cores and the cache the i3 seems to do better (2 core 4 thread vs 2 core 2 thread, and 3MB cache vs 2MB cache). Only limitation is higher TDP, lower memory bandwidth and bus speed as well as maximum memory. What other factors affect the performance?

I currently have a laptop running a Celeron 3855U. I'm looking to just get cheap secondhand laptop with slightly more processing power and I found a laptop online but it is running a i3 380m. Although it has better clock speeds is it actually a better processor compared to the newer Celeron?