Bridging (which is not what you're calling bridging) makes one of the access points a client to the access point, just like a laptop is a client. It then provides an ethernet output and any wired ethernet can connect to a wireless network.
Actually, that was exactly what I was calling bridging, but I couldn't see a way to do it with the Airport Extreme, and there wasn't any information on it that I could find online. If you have any info on how to do this with the hardware I have, I'm all ears. As I mentioned earlier, I do not want to
extend my wireless network, just use the second router as a bridge, but because I could not see a second option, and none were available to me, I went the WDS route.
I'm surprised you are getting 2.1MBps with WDS over a 802.11g network unless you've turned the security off. That's about the most you'd normally see using a single point to point with a reasonable level of security in my experience.
Ah, that would be because the Airport Extreme is an 802.11n router.
That's Mbits/sec (very likely), not Mbytes/sec (less likely to be that good).
Nope, Mbytes. That's why I used the big B.
But honestly, that's just a very informal test. I used a file copying program that tells me the bandwidth as it copies the file, and I just gave a rough average of what it was reporting.
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