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Well I live in the Middle East and construction over here tends to all be done with steel reinforced concrete which makes the transmission of WiFi signals difficult at best. That being said we used to live in a place which was great - big open rooms, all one floor, and my wireless network seemed to work fairly well. However, we recently moved to a new location (bigger place, space for the dogs to run, etc. etc) and I can't get the signal more than a few feet outside of any room that is broadcasting. At first I tried to set up multiple extenders but that was troublesome and clunky and in the end it was easier to simply run fiber all over the place. So now I'm hard wired but before I had basically the same setup:
1 Windows Home Server (which has always been hardwired)
3 Desktops (Vista Ultimate on mine and my wife's, XP on our daughters)
2 Notebooks (Vista HP and Vista Ult)
3 Vista Ult mini-PCs for various TVs around the house (on VMC mode 24/7)
1 Vista Ult Tablet
2 Xbox 360s
1 HTC Shift (WinMo/Vista Business)
1 HTC Touch Diamond
1 HTC Touch Pro
2 HTC TyTN IIs and 1 iMate Jamin (all three used only as media remote controls)
3 Skype Phones (which I guess have always been hardwired to the router)
4 digital picture frames with embedded WiFi
2 wireless webcams (which barely ever work)
1 HP Laserjet
1 HP Photo All-in-One Printer
4 Linksys WRT350Ns around the house for wireless access but the range is barely outside the room that they're in and honestly outside the kitchen we very rarely ever connect wirelessly.
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