For now I have the 5GHz radio disabled as I was reading that "weird things happen" when you try to run that concurrently with 2.4GHz in some situations, and this is what I'm wondering about. I don't think I have any AC devices except maybe my newest phone or tablet (maybe, haven't bothered to check).
Anyway, my downlink from the net is only like 10-12Mbps so I haven't really worried much about trying to make the wifi faster, but with the NAS drive that I added I'm staring to wonder about the best way to configure things.
Anyway, main questions I've been wondering about lately:
Shortcut Forwarding Engine: on or off?
Is there any point at all to using WDS if you only have one "net extender" (repeater or repeater bridge)?
Should I leave the N set to narrow or set it to HT40? (I can't quite tell if this 160N does HT40 but it seems to and the specs say MIMO 2x2.)
Should I crank up the power a little on either of these?
Anyway, I'm essentially just looking for random advice or warnings if anyone has any.
As it turns out though when I really got to looking at it I seem to have no devices, other than the one I'm using as a client bridge, that will do HT40. And the stuff plugged into that can't really benefit from higher speeds. So basically there seems to be very little use to me using HT40 here right now and even with neighbors not very close by it seems like it will cause more trouble than it's worth in 2.4GHz spectrum.
