[sudomin]

I'm using a netgear R7000 connecting to an Eero router wirelessly for the time being & I wanted to try and get repeater bridge working to solve missing mac addresses/devices on the Eero and that's when I found the huge loss in bandwidth roughly 20-40+megabits/s

is this a configuration problem on my end or is repeater bridge just going to be losing speed as a sacrifice for multiple clients on the 2.4ghz band even though the vast majority of my devices connect to the 5GHz band or via ethernet/switch connections...

I already ran some ethernet between the two houses but haven't drilled through the wall in the main house yet to hook everything up, but as soon as I do it'll be more of a non-issue than it is now... in the mean time I just wanted to check... am I doing something wrong? or is this just a consequence of repeater bridge vs client bridge - 5GHz band is set as AP and hasn't changed at all in between testing the two modes so it should be directly related to the only change made I would assume... I am on the most recent release I could find for dd-wrt for my device DD-WRT v3.0-r55460 std (03/25/24)

Aside from this and issues running both bands in repeater bridge mode the firmware rocks it's been a huge boost compared to the stock firmware's capabilities.. totally gave new life to a device sitting on the shelf.
thanks devs.

[egc]

If you use the 2.4 GHz as uplink and also as a VAP then you have to share the bandwidth and depending on your settings then 40 Mb/s throughput is as good as it gets.

If your spectrum is not crowded you can set the 2.4 Ghz at 40 MHz bandwidth but most cleints will not not support that so it is only usable as uplink.

But better is to use the 5 GHz as uplink with 80 MHz bandwidth.

and no you can not use both 2.4 and 5 GHz as uplinks.

see https://raw.githubusercontent.com/egc112/ddwrt/main/DDWRT%20Wireless%20Bridge%20v5.pdf