Q: Half duplex on bridge in roaming setup?
I set up a roaming network following this somewhat outdated apple guide. However, I plugged the Ethernet into a LAN port on the bridged AE - because the WAN port has a little lug on it and the cable wouldn't lock into place. This shouldn't matter as bridged mode turns all ports into a switch. I noticed when looking at airport utility on my phone it showed the bridge as half duplex? The base station and the bridge are connected but Cat 5e. What gives with the half duplex? Equipment is new and firmware current.
THe he setup guide I refer to is:
Posted on Jul 26, 2015 8:31 PM
Ok, so I gave my iPhone 5s a try to see what results that I get from my network and it reports full duplex for my base stations. In my case, I have a Cisco as my main router with Gb/s Ethernet ports, with each of the base stations connected back to the Cisco via Ethernet using CAT5e cabling. All of my base stations report in the iOS version of the AirPort Utility as having full duplex.
Makes me think your 100 Mb/s switch may be the culprit.
Posted on Jul 28, 2015 4:16 PM

