2012-08-07, 21:09
Hey peeps -
So I'm about ready to drop kick my Buffalo router out the damn window. It sucks ... even hardwired in it still sucks. It's bad and that's all there is to it. I'm running DD-WRT ontop of it just fyi. So it needs to go and i'm ordering something within the next 36 hours.
I'm well versed on the reviews, and understand the technology - so i'm as much looking for first hand feedback as anything.
Network needs are as such:
XBMC, Xbox360, HDHomeRun Dual, TimeCapsule will all be hardwired in via a zyxel switch. There will be a few clients that connect wirelessly within my condo (laptop, phone, iMac). Generally speaking, they aren't going to be used for streaming over the next. Eventually, I'm going to add in a server ... but that's a few months away.
My neighbors (2 stories below ... so roughly 20 feet) have a SamsungTV. They will be running their laptops for personal use and also use one to stream to their tv (or perhaps directly stream through their tv).
So if our main focus is on streaming to 2 devices at one time, and have a network that doesn't come to screeching hault while that's going on ... what do you recomment?
I'm just about in the bag for an Airprot Extreme - but there's still time to sway me. I'm obviously turned off by the inability to really prioritize network traffic via an Extreme. But honestly - if it will handle streaming to two devices (one of which will be hardwired in), i won't really give a rats ass.
Powerline adapters aren't an option and at somepoint, we may get creative and drop a wire outside our building (shhhh!!!) but for now, let's not worry about that.
So I'm about ready to drop kick my Buffalo router out the damn window. It sucks ... even hardwired in it still sucks. It's bad and that's all there is to it. I'm running DD-WRT ontop of it just fyi. So it needs to go and i'm ordering something within the next 36 hours.
I'm well versed on the reviews, and understand the technology - so i'm as much looking for first hand feedback as anything.
Network needs are as such:
XBMC, Xbox360, HDHomeRun Dual, TimeCapsule will all be hardwired in via a zyxel switch. There will be a few clients that connect wirelessly within my condo (laptop, phone, iMac). Generally speaking, they aren't going to be used for streaming over the next. Eventually, I'm going to add in a server ... but that's a few months away.
My neighbors (2 stories below ... so roughly 20 feet) have a SamsungTV. They will be running their laptops for personal use and also use one to stream to their tv (or perhaps directly stream through their tv).
So if our main focus is on streaming to 2 devices at one time, and have a network that doesn't come to screeching hault while that's going on ... what do you recomment?
I'm just about in the bag for an Airprot Extreme - but there's still time to sway me. I'm obviously turned off by the inability to really prioritize network traffic via an Extreme. But honestly - if it will handle streaming to two devices (one of which will be hardwired in), i won't really give a rats ass.
Powerline adapters aren't an option and at somepoint, we may get creative and drop a wire outside our building (shhhh!!!) but for now, let's not worry about that.
