Home network makeover?
Networking isnt my area of expertise...I'm looking for some advice on a possible home network makeover.
Heres my issue: I just got 2 new tivos. Ones hardwired (in house wiring to the router) @ 100mb to a linksys router and ones wireless (G). The transfer speeds between the tivos is pretty poor - any HD transfer you must wait for the transfer to complete to start watching it else it pauses to wait for more data. So I'm looking to improve the transfer speeds.
My router today is a wrt54gl with DDWRT.
My setup is most of the house is prewired with cat5. Unfortunately the upstairs tivo isnt near the cat5 jacks. I think hard wiring is out.
The wiring is punched to a block in the garage. Right now thats where my cable modem and router are. That puts the wireless quite far from the tivo (3rd floor bedroom) - hence the problem.
My thoughts:
I can move the router and modem to the 3rd floor office plugged into one of the network jacks, buy a gigabit switch and put that in the garage - that should allow all the ports to work - granted the router is 100mb which will lower my speeds but at least having the gigabit switch will give me future upgrade options. This will put the router very close to the tivo - but it'll still be at G speeds. Is that enough? I dont know.
So, I could do the above or get a new N router and put it on the 3rd floor? Thatll require me to get a new tivo N adapter and Ill need to make sure that my G and N devices play well together. EDIT: looks like its difficult to get n devices at N speeds and still have G devices on network..
I'd like find a N router that does gigabit and supports DDWRT (already using DDWRT).
using ddwrt bandwidth monitor doing a tivo wired to tivo wireless g transfer the speeds are 8-10 mbps.
Hm, choices?
Heres my issue: I just got 2 new tivos. Ones hardwired (in house wiring to the router) @ 100mb to a linksys router and ones wireless (G). The transfer speeds between the tivos is pretty poor - any HD transfer you must wait for the transfer to complete to start watching it else it pauses to wait for more data. So I'm looking to improve the transfer speeds.
My router today is a wrt54gl with DDWRT.
My setup is most of the house is prewired with cat5. Unfortunately the upstairs tivo isnt near the cat5 jacks. I think hard wiring is out.
The wiring is punched to a block in the garage. Right now thats where my cable modem and router are. That puts the wireless quite far from the tivo (3rd floor bedroom) - hence the problem.
My thoughts:
I can move the router and modem to the 3rd floor office plugged into one of the network jacks, buy a gigabit switch and put that in the garage - that should allow all the ports to work - granted the router is 100mb which will lower my speeds but at least having the gigabit switch will give me future upgrade options. This will put the router very close to the tivo - but it'll still be at G speeds. Is that enough? I dont know.
So, I could do the above or get a new N router and put it on the 3rd floor? Thatll require me to get a new tivo N adapter and Ill need to make sure that my G and N devices play well together. EDIT: looks like its difficult to get n devices at N speeds and still have G devices on network..
I'd like find a N router that does gigabit and supports DDWRT (already using DDWRT).
using ddwrt bandwidth monitor doing a tivo wired to tivo wireless g transfer the speeds are 8-10 mbps.
Hm, choices?
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I have one running with the default firmware but will be swapping over to DD-WRT in the next couple of weeks.
The above should cater for your needs.
http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Netgear_WNDR3700