(NB This may not be true in the USA) I don't know whether this is going to be useful or not, but it might be worth bearing in mind that there is available (at least in the UK) a 7-way short extension lead/ gang with four ethernet over mains ports in it. That's enough ethernet ports for printer, PC, router/wireless base station and another - could be Squeezebox, could be Skype phone. Couple one or two of those with plug-through EOP adapters and there's the makings of an extremely flexible network without trailing Cat 5 cables. With ethernet over mains, of course, you can put a wireless base station (such as Airport Extreme) or extender/booster (such as Airport Express) where you like on the network in relation to your router/PC/Squeezebox. It's not a particularly cheap option. Each extension/gang costs about £70 here. They do, though, work flawlessly, as I've found.
On 22 Oct 2009, at 22:16, rrweather wrote: > > I turned on the Soundbridge and then moved my router around upstairs > to > see the impact on my network. Moving the router to the office caused > the > soundbridge to drop off occasionally. I ended up putting the router > back > in the hallway. I then ran a Cat5 cable to the office and hooked it up > to the time capsule. So now when I get the mac mini and/or any other > media server, it will be connected via cat5 to the time capsule, which > is connected via cat5 to the linksys router. This should at least give > my media server good access to the network. > > I think the SB Touch in our master bedroom SHOULD be able to use WiFi. > The SB is only going to be 20 feet or so from the router. The most > interference seems to occur between the upstairs and downstairs. > Anything upstairs should be good with WiFi alone. > > I think I am going to order the Powerline adapter for the living room > first. This will be a good test to see how well it will work. Then > (assuming it works) I can try using WiFi in the bedroom with the > Powerline as a backup plan. > >> From what I have read on the dual-band N routers, no one seems to >> have > had much success using N routers with G. Most have not seen an > improvement on the G side with dual-band. Without a real need for a > dual-band router, I don't want to risk buying one and having the G > performance decrease. The Linksys is working good enough for now so I > will stick with it. > > > -- > rrweather > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > rrweather's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33706 > View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=70176 > > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
