Obsoleet
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I just got a new HDTV (Samsung PN50B650) and want to hook it up to my network.. and also network a Bluray player (Samsung HT-BD8200) and possibly in the future a Wii.
I've been looking into my options. A wifi bridge to the HT because I'm afraid I'll max out my G wifi speed easily causing laptops ect to slow down. Streaming a movie or music from my PC over G could consume the whole bandwidth.. I'll be maximizing my PC as a server through DLNA to the max extent a lot of times.
My other option is to move my cable modem and router to the tv area, then run 1 CAT5 back to the PC. This would enable me to hardwire everything, and when a good gigabit/final N router comes out let me simply switch out the router and I have the wiring in place. Or enables me to simply put the desktop on N, but I probably never will because I only game on PC and want to keep the latency down.
The only fear is that 100mbit wired connections won't be enough with heavy streaming, but my thought is that it's enough and the important part (taking the load off the G bandwidth) is solved.
Would putting my home router behind a dedicated gigabit switch be necessary (or useful with what I believe is only 100mbit on the TV and Bluray player)?
This will be a heavy file sharing environment between the PCs/devices on my network.
My router/switch is a Buffalo WHR-HP-54G w/ Tomato. I won't be buying a gigabit / N router until 802.11N is finalized and even then maybe not if this works out fine.
I've been looking into my options. A wifi bridge to the HT because I'm afraid I'll max out my G wifi speed easily causing laptops ect to slow down. Streaming a movie or music from my PC over G could consume the whole bandwidth.. I'll be maximizing my PC as a server through DLNA to the max extent a lot of times.
My other option is to move my cable modem and router to the tv area, then run 1 CAT5 back to the PC. This would enable me to hardwire everything, and when a good gigabit/final N router comes out let me simply switch out the router and I have the wiring in place. Or enables me to simply put the desktop on N, but I probably never will because I only game on PC and want to keep the latency down.
The only fear is that 100mbit wired connections won't be enough with heavy streaming, but my thought is that it's enough and the important part (taking the load off the G bandwidth) is solved.
Would putting my home router behind a dedicated gigabit switch be necessary (or useful with what I believe is only 100mbit on the TV and Bluray player)?
This will be a heavy file sharing environment between the PCs/devices on my network.
My router/switch is a Buffalo WHR-HP-54G w/ Tomato. I won't be buying a gigabit / N router until 802.11N is finalized and even then maybe not if this works out fine.
