Brian,
TNX. I recall that you did mention your choices before.
Yes, I am thinking of the "guest w/toys" angle. I do not do DHCP at my
router ATM. But, I may now test this feature with a limited range of
addy's for guests to use. I know; more research.
Duncan
On 05/13/2010 06:22, Brian Weeden wrote:
Mix here. Back in 2003 when I lived in Montana I wired my whole house with
Cat5e and RG6 drops, of course then I moved a year later and have moved
twice more since then (I was in the military until 2007 and my wife still
is). So for me to put the time in effort into completely wiring a house
each time we move is not very efficient.
Right now I'm running an Apple Airport Extreme which sits in the same closet
as the main house server (media and backup). That lets me run a wired
connection to that server and the upstairs HTPC which is right above it.
And other things in the A/V closet (like the Xbox 360) get wired as well .
But everything else in the house (my desktop and laptop, wife's laptop,
iPhone, random other devices) are all Wifi.
The other big reason to have WiF is for visitors. With a 2-mo old and a
2-yr old we are getting a set of grandparents or siblings stopping by for a
few days every few months, and they all have laptops or netbooks in tow and
need net access to do work or just surf/email.
I detect from some people a pretty strong aversion to Wireless, and I would
ask why that is. WiFi is not some new-fangled thing - it's been around and
in increasingly heavy us for the better part of a decade. Certainly, there
are some applications that have large enough bandwidth requirements that
wired is preferable. That's why my HTPCs are wired to the content server.
But for most other things WiFi (especially N) is more than fast enough and
the lack of wires is a huge benefit.
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