Wireless Router?

[Philly Bill]

I have a wired router. 4 outputs. One goes to the kids XBOX, one to the kids PC, one to MY PC.

I can Zipper and wire my two TIVOS to it but I only have one port left.

I'll be adding an HD TIVO down in the den which I'll have to Zipper and hook up wireless.

I guess I need a router that has room for 4 wired devices and wireless for the TIVO. Of course I guess I could make BOTH TIVOS wireless since it appears wireless works pretty good now.


1. Does anyone have a suggestion on a router? What do you use and how do you like it?

2. How about the adapter end of your wireless setup (where the TIVO is concerned)?

3. Distance. The PC is in the top floor of a two story house. The den where the HD TIVO (which will be wireless) is going to go is on the first floor on the complete other end of the house. Will this be a problem?


Any and all help is very much appreciated. :)

[JamieP]

I have a wired router. 4 outputs. One goes to the kids XBOX, one to the kids PC, one to MY PC.

I can Zipper and wire my two TIVOS to it but I only have one port left.

I'll be adding an HD TIVO down in the den which I'll have to Zipper and hook up wireless.

I guess I need a router that has room for 4 wired devices and wireless for the TIVO. Of course I guess I could make BOTH TIVOS wireless since it appears wireless works pretty good now.


1. Does anyone have a suggestion on a router? What do you use and how do you like it?

2. How about the adapter end of your wireless setup (where the TIVO is concerned)?

3. Distance. The PC is in the top floor of a two story house. The den where the HD TIVO (which will be wireless) is going to go is on the first floor on the complete other end of the house. Will this be a problem?


Any and all help is very much appreciated. :)You can get a cheap switch for $15 or so. That should solve your lack-of-ports problem. No nead to replace your router.

Wireless performance sucks. If you want good performance, you should go wired everywhere. If you must go wireless, the tivo-branded adapter is best, but you'll have to do some work to get it to work with 6.2, since it is only supported in 7.2.

[amules2003]

Buy a hub and come off one of the ports on the existing router.

[JamieP]

Buy a hub and come off one of the ports on the existing router.No reason at all to buy a hub these days. A switch would be better. Here's (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16833332001) one at newegg for $8 shipped, AR.

[ThreeSoFar]

No reason at all to buy a hub these days. A switch would be better. Here's (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16833332001) one at newegg for $8 shipped, AR.
I got two ARCHTEK 8-port switches from newegg a year ago and they've been working great. They were about $15 each then.

Don't forget you can chain a couple-few switches/hubs together. Either a regular cable will work (link light goes on) or you need a crossover port on one of them or use a crossover cable.

[Yog-Sothoth]

Either a regular cable will work (link light goes on) or you need a crossover port on one of them or use a crossover cable.

While the OP doesn't state what kind of router it is, most these days have switches that have auto-sensing ports, so either type of cable will work. Usually, if there is an "uplink" port, then the ports aren't auto-sensing.

[Philly Bill]

No reason at all to buy a hub these days. A switch would be better. Here's (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16833332001) one at newegg for $8 shipped, AR.


Hmm. So looking at the picture it shows 5 ports labeled 1-5. How does it work? Just hook one port out on my router to one of these ports on this switch? Then the other 4 become 'active'?


I don't see how I'm gonna run a line to my HDTIVO, but I guess I'll figure out how to huh? Can CAT-5 cable 'survive' run outside? Down the side of my house?

Maybe I can figure how to get from up to down somehow..... let me look at it.

Thanks Jamie and the rest!

[JamieP]

Hmm. So looking at the picture it shows 5 ports labeled 1-5. How does it work? Just hook one port out on my router to one of these ports on this switch? Then the other 4 become 'active'?Yep.I don't see how I'm gonna run a line to my HDTIVO, but I guess I'll figure out how to huh? Can CAT-5 cable 'survive' run outside? Down the side of my house?I guess it depends on what you plan to use the network for on the HDTIVO. Wireless will be slow for any large transfers, but if all you want to do is control it with TWP, it may not matter.

[ThreeSoFar]

I don't see how I'm gonna run a line to my HDTIVO, but I guess I'll figure out how to huh? Can CAT-5 cable 'survive' run outside? Down the side of my house?

Same as phone lines, I would think. There might be a right and wrong type of Cat-5 cable to do it with, long-term survival wise.

Snaking cable inside of walls, with the usual current drywall construction, is really not that tough with the right equipment. There's a drill bit on the end of a 4' section of (I think) fiberglass, with 4' extenders that can let you drill through the cross beams between floors, from basement to the second floor or more, if need be.

That said, though, it is pretty expensive to pay someone else to do it as it can be time intensive.

[rpdre1]

if you want to go wireless, use a wireless g bridge connected your usb ethernet adapter.


i have a linksys router flashed with 3rd party firmware to let me use it as a wireless bridge.

i max out at 2.4 meg/s

[ThreeSoFar]

I gotta get me one of them linksys to play with