Network Traffic Routing

[Yasri]

I am going to be setting up my desktop to stream games to my tablet using nvidia gamestream on the desktop and moonlight on the android tablet.

 

Question is on my network setup is the traffic going to have go back and forth to my router all the time. Or will it just go from computer -> switch -> extender -> tablet and back.

 

I posted a diagram of my network below. The big lines connecting things is the route I would think it should take for best speed.  Yellow=cable red=wifi

 

 

Does anyone know of tools to see the traffic routing path between my computer and tablet. 

 

Bonus Points: if I hook up a nas to my network switch. Would traffic only go as far as the switch if connecting with my computer.

[Chaz042]

The traffic would go Tablet > WiFi Extender > Switch -> Desktop.

The only reason the streaming video traffic would go to the Wireless Router is if the tablet were to connect to the Archer C7's WiFi, in that case, it would be Tablet > Wireless Router > WiFi Extender > Switch > Desktop.

 

In reality, the only time traffic will go across the wireless bridge would be if it's going to the router its self, a device connected wirelessly or wired to the Archer C7 router, or the internet. A NAS would be going at 1Gbps, and you would be able to max it out as well, as long as there are no other bottlenecks. 

 

There are no real tools to show routing paths on the network because nothing is actually being routed, only when it's leaving the network will you be able to check the route.

 

Let me know if you need any more info.

[Yasri]

So, as long as device are connecting to things on the same side of the line in picture it should not have to crossover even if dhcp is running off the router on the right side.

 

Just dont want something like this to happen.

computer -> switch -> extender -> router -> extender > tablet

Would blow the speed and latency all to hell.

 

Two hours later after internet comes back on....

 

Did some messing around with my router and extender. I got the best speeds with both extender/router broadcasting the 5ghz signal only for clients and keeping the 2.4ghz hidden for backhaul between the router/extender. Like double faster then all the other combinations I tried. I also put the two 5ghz as two different ssid to better control which I was being put to.

 

Even just swaping the clients to 2.4ghz and backhaul on 5ghz almost knocked off 1/3 the speed. Enabling the 2.4ghz/5ghz on both with same ssid for the speed just cratered the speed.

 

 

 

Found a lan tester that works easy enough. It sends a 50MB file both ways.

 

WiFi Speed Test on my tablet

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pzolee.android.localwifispeedtester&hl=en

 

And smallftpd on my computer

http://smallftpd.sourceforge.net/ 

 

And im getting more then double the download speed connected to my extender ssid vs the router ssid going from the tablet to desktop. So you were right about it staying on the right side of the line.