Hi there
Feel free to send me to another forum.
My house is two stories, with a desktop upstairs (may qualify as a NAS some day, for now, it's just an old desktop with a big hdd) wired to a DSL modem/router (Technicolor 5130) wired to an Asus RT-N16 (DDWRT) wired to a Raspberry Pi.
The main goals are for the Pi to be able to stream from the desktop (or anything else I put on the network, but I'll focus on that for now), and for us to be able to at least browse at the same time, including a bit of youtube, preferably.
Until last weekend, I just had a USB drive plugged in the N16 downstairs, wifi between the Pi and the N16 and wifi between the N16 (repeater bridge) to the Technicolor. This mostly allowed for what I wanted, but the old desktop is loud and clunky, so I don't want it in the living room. I do want the 2tb of movies and TV shows and music and pics.
So in my infinite wisdom, I changed the N16 from Repeater Bridge to AP, and hooked up the ethernet cables all round. I set the SSIDs the same at first, but sitting next to the N16, my wife's macbook was getting crummy signal while my sony was great, so I assumed hers was connecting to the upstairs router (through a concrete floor). I changed the name of the n16 network, she connected to the new name, and she was good to go.
I set up a samba share on the desktop, added the share to the pi, picked a movie, and... terrible. Slow to load, laggy, generally not watchable. So I stopped all other traffic, and it was back to OK. My wife went on facebook, and she got a slow connection, and I got major lag.
Then I tried accessing a share from my laptop on the pi, laptop sitting next to the N16, pi still wired, and still no luck browsing or anything else, even when connected to the Technicolor wifi network.
So my questions:
How do I know which router a wifi device is going through if the AP/router has the same SSID as the router/modem?
Should the N16 be able to act as a switch for wifi to LAN, sending traffic straight from a laptop to the pi? Or does all traffic go through the technicolor, even if it's local?
Since this samba share from desktop to pi is all LAN, no need to get outside, is there a way to fence it off? Would that be a vlan?
If yes, could I allow the pi to still get outside for updates?
Since I'm fairly new to it all, what do I need to chase down first/what logs do I need to provide/look at?
Feel free to send me to another forum.
My house is two stories, with a desktop upstairs (may qualify as a NAS some day, for now, it's just an old desktop with a big hdd) wired to a DSL modem/router (Technicolor 5130) wired to an Asus RT-N16 (DDWRT) wired to a Raspberry Pi.
The main goals are for the Pi to be able to stream from the desktop (or anything else I put on the network, but I'll focus on that for now), and for us to be able to at least browse at the same time, including a bit of youtube, preferably.
Until last weekend, I just had a USB drive plugged in the N16 downstairs, wifi between the Pi and the N16 and wifi between the N16 (repeater bridge) to the Technicolor. This mostly allowed for what I wanted, but the old desktop is loud and clunky, so I don't want it in the living room. I do want the 2tb of movies and TV shows and music and pics.
So in my infinite wisdom, I changed the N16 from Repeater Bridge to AP, and hooked up the ethernet cables all round. I set the SSIDs the same at first, but sitting next to the N16, my wife's macbook was getting crummy signal while my sony was great, so I assumed hers was connecting to the upstairs router (through a concrete floor). I changed the name of the n16 network, she connected to the new name, and she was good to go.
I set up a samba share on the desktop, added the share to the pi, picked a movie, and... terrible. Slow to load, laggy, generally not watchable. So I stopped all other traffic, and it was back to OK. My wife went on facebook, and she got a slow connection, and I got major lag.
Then I tried accessing a share from my laptop on the pi, laptop sitting next to the N16, pi still wired, and still no luck browsing or anything else, even when connected to the Technicolor wifi network.
So my questions:
How do I know which router a wifi device is going through if the AP/router has the same SSID as the router/modem?
Should the N16 be able to act as a switch for wifi to LAN, sending traffic straight from a laptop to the pi? Or does all traffic go through the technicolor, even if it's local?
Since this samba share from desktop to pi is all LAN, no need to get outside, is there a way to fence it off? Would that be a vlan?
If yes, could I allow the pi to still get outside for updates?
Since I'm fairly new to it all, what do I need to chase down first/what logs do I need to provide/look at?
