HP Tablet (XP)
Vaio (XP)
iPhone
Blackberry Curve
Blackberry Pearl Flip
TiVo HD
Vonage phone
Dell Laser Printer
Sony Clie (Occasionally)
It's funny, I was making this list mentally earlier today before I read this post. It makes me really appreciate how convenient and now indispensable my home network is.
1- Apple TV Family
1- MacBook Pro Mine
1- TC1100 Wife's
1- M205 Son's
3- XBox 360's wife, son and mine
1- PS3 Mine
1- Wii Family
3- iPhone 3G's wife, son, mine
1- Company laptop
2- HP All in One printers Wife's and Mine
1- Zune 80
Plus we have about 8 more devices hard wired on the network. Things like DirectTV receivers (4), SlingBox, network printer, Desktop Mac, Desktop PC (Vista) and I'm sure I have forgotten something.
Additionally to limit the load on the WIFI network I have 2 access points so half are on one and the other half on the other. There are other reasons for this setup as well before someone tells me I could run them all on the one WIFI access point.
When I moved in I forgot about cables and just used Wifi from then on. I have;
- my desktop
- my netbook (eee901, gotto love it)
- girlfriend's notebook
- HTC Diamond (which is the netbooks modem out of the house)
The router is also set up for the notebooks of my friends and netbook of my mother for when they visit.
Let's see if I can remember all of it... this first section is just the stuff on WiFi. I have three wireless networks: 802.11n at 5GHz, 802.11n at 2.4GHz, and 802.11g with two access points.
Dell Inspiron E1705 laptop
Toshiba M700 convertible Tablet PC
Sony Vaio laptop
Dell Inspiron Mini 9
Averatec 4265 laptop
Dell Inspiron 9100 laptop
Toshiba Satellite laptop
Averatec 3715 laptop
2 x Windows desktop PC
Zune 80GB
E-TEN glofiish X500+ WM Pro phone
2 x T-Mobile Dash WM Std phone
Apple 16GB iPod Touch
Apple 8GB iPhone
Apple Mac Mini
Eye-Fi Home card
Linksys music player
2 x Sony PS3
Nintendo Wii
HP iPAQ hx4700 WM PDA
The wired network has more stuff on it, about a third of it on Gigabit Ethernet:
4 x desktop Windows PCs
(if virtual machines count, add 4 more)
2 x Windows servers
4 x Xbox 360s
Denon AVR-3808ci receiver
3 x Dish Network 622/722 Satellite receivers
OKI Color laser printer
USB/Parallel Print server
Epson thermal receipt printer
Linksys Cordless/Skype phone
T-Mobile @Home base station/AP
5 x various routers
6 x 8-port Switches
24-port Netgear Level 2 Managed switch
Alesis 24-channel audio recorder
2 x Toshiba HD-DVD players
2 x Turtle Beach AudioTron
That's all that comes immediately to mind. I'm sure I'm forgetting something.
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.
Well, my WiFi Router (Linksys WRT54GC) died on Sunday so I'm almost without wireless LAN. For the time beeing I'm using SMC Wirelles Network Storage (SMCWAPS-G) as an temporary access point.
But at the end it's not a big deal, as I'm not a big WiFi user.
Partly because my house with it's thick stone walls pretty much limits the wireless signal to only one room and partly because I have most of my devices on wired LAN.
Pretty much the only device that regularly uses WiFi is my Advantage - it's nicer to browse on WiFi than it's on 3G and when I finish setting up my new EEE Surf for the kitchen it will also be on WiFi as I don't have wires on kitchen counter.
Everything else I have, works on 1Gb wired LAN:
- Home server (old Asus Pundit),
- old notebook turned into printer server,
- work Notebook,
- 3 Logitech Squeezbox players
- Pop Corn video streamer
It's just better (faster) this way.
Oh and my phone - I never use it on WiFi - it's always connected to 3G network so why bother and since it's Diamond the battery would be dead in 30 minutes :-)
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