I've got two access points (set to opposite ends of the frequency spectrum) each tasked to different things.
One is set to B/G compatibility mode and operates for guests and my own low bandwidth devices.
Thinkpad T20 - Configured with MPD as a wireless music station
O2 XDA IIs - Handheld remote control
iMate JasJar - Handheld remote control
HTC TyTn II - My phone, but not really done anymore now that I've got a bucket of 3G data.
The other is set to G mode for my personal surfing
Fujitsu P5020 - Bedside light surfing
Fujitsu P1610 - Around the house surfing
Toshiba Portege M200 - Main mobile workhorse
The reason for the split is so that for my own surfing, I get the full advantages of a G only network that isn't hampered by anything else broadcasting. The B/G network is for friends who are over, and older devices that can't go G, and are relatively low bandwidth.
Got the following on my old Linksys WRT54G (running tomato now):
- desktop (xp pro) - the only hard-wired device in the house
- work laptop (xp pro)
- wife's work laptop (xp pro)
- wife's macbook pro (osx)
- print server
- ps3
- tivo
- wife's iphone
- and depending on who else comes over, we end up with up to 5 or 6 more devices (iphones, macbook pros, mac pros, mac minis - in case you hadn't noticed, our friends are mac junkies)
Wish my bjII had wifi - I will not buy another smartphone without it.
I guess I qualify as a very mixed network. The infrastructure:
First floor:
* Main router, WRT54G, with wifi disabled (it's in the wiring closet, no room for antennas)
* Belkin access point, B/G on channel 5, acting as a switch as well
Second floor:
* WRT54G, B/G on channel 8, acting as a switch as well
Third floor:
* WRT54G, B/G on channel 11, acting as a switch as well
The devices:
* 4 personal laptops (me, my wife, two kids) (wired/wireless as needed)
* My daughter's work laptop (wireless)
* Home server (wired)
* 3 iPhones
* 2 iPod Touches
* Wii (wireless)
* XBox 360 (wired)
* PS2 (wired)
* HP PSC2510 printer (wired)
* HP C7180 printer (wired)
I never really listed this all out before. Wow! I do use Network Magic to keep an eye on all of it, especially to see if devices fall offline every now and then.
So reading through these posts i thought my setups were large but some of you have quite a bit. My setup is as follows. For both Wireless and Wired. In my neighborhood there are 22 networks available so Wireless sometimes becomes unstable (nice thing is most dont know to change the channel to something other than the default, but thats a different story), hence most is wired.
Wireless: (802.11G Linksys 54G, no need for anything else)
Dell Inspiron 9400
Dell Inspiron 5150
Nokia 770 Internet Tablet
Att Tilt 6.1 (Cooked ROM)
Wii
80 GB Zune
(and at any given moment an additional 1-5 friends or family laptops/phones)
Wired: (Linksys Gigabit Ethernet)
Bedroom PC (Built from scratch, gigabit)
Media Room PC (Built from scratch, gigabit)
Office PC for printers and such
PS3
PS2
Xbox
Xbox360
2TB media server (gigabit)
1 Buffalo Gigbit Linkstation
1 Linksys NAS drive (10/100)
2 IP based Security Cameras
Basically at any given time any where from 16 to 25 device IPs being used. Glad to see i'm not the only techie out there overloading the power grids. :-)
On a daily basis we have:
2 original iPhones (1 deactivated as sort of an iPod Touch+)
1 iPhone 3G
MacBook Pro
Airport Extreme base station (acting as a wireless bridge to the Time Capsule- tried using Airport Express for this but it couldn't handle the load)
occasionally my wife's work Dell laptop (which stays at work most days)
We also have 2 other XP laptops that see daily use, but run over the wired Gigabit ethernet connection even though they are WiFi capable.
I also have any number of old WiFi-enabled WinMo handhelds lying around but they don't see daily use.
__________________ 32 GB iPhone 3GS, various iPods
Many Windows PC's, Early 2009 Mac Mini, Early 2008 MacBook Pro 15"
Last edited by Dyvim; 11-13-2008 at 08:18 PM..
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