Patent ID: 8614956

Claim:
A method comprising: determining, at a wireless repeater, a repeater-to-access point (repeater-AP) throughput associated with a first communication link between the wireless repeater and an access point associated with a wireless communication network based, at least in part, on a performance measurement for a first plurality of training packets transmitted between the wireless repeater and the access point; for a client station associated with the wireless communication network, determining, at the wireless repeater, a repeater-client throughput associated with a second communication link between the wireless repeater and the client station based, at least in part, on a performance measurement for a second plurality of training packets transmitted between the wireless repeater and the client station; determining an AP-repeater-client throughput between the access point and the client station via the wireless repeater, the AP-repeater-client throughput based, at least in part, on a minimum throughput value associated with the repeater-AP throughput and the repeater-client throughput; and indicating whether a current position of the wireless repeater can meet a predetermined performance requirement with respect to the client station based, at least in part, on whether the AP-repeater-client throughput is greater than or equal to the predetermined throughput threshold.