Hostapd Slowdown

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I have been planning on hosting a wireless access point on my NAS (check sig, it's the E7500 PC) using hostapd and bridge-utils so my actual router can deal with DHCP. Would I experience any slowdown to my file serving/amount of clients? My NAS basically serves files through the on board NIC (everything is gigabit) and I'm planning on using a USB 2.0 Wi-Fi adapter and the same NIC for any wireless traffic. Any insight would be greatly appreciated, thank you

[toor]

Don't quite follow, are you using Wireless now?   Really depends on the NIC and driver support, not all of them do 80211/ac in AP mode.

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Just now, toor said:

Don't quite follow, are you using Wireless now?   Really depends on the NIC and driver support, not all of them do 80211/ac in AP mode.

Everything is wired with Cat6 at the moment but we don't get wireless coverage upstairs (where the PC is) so I'm thinking about bridging the on board ethernet NIC with a WLAN NIC for mobile/wireless devices to connect to.

[toor]

Then you will see a performance drop.  Wireless can be fast but no where near wired.  Still not quiet following if all your devices are wired, why would you need wireless at all?  Or you mean some of them are.

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Every device that can be wired, is (e.g PCs, Consoles) but mobile devices need a wireless connection.