Not sure quite what I am asking or how to ask, but the amount of personal computing devices in my home has grown in the last few months and I'm not sure what the effect will be on my router, and my bandwidth. I apologize since this is a rather messy post.
I have a linksys e2000 wireless router that i bought a few years ago and worked fine for everyday usage. I didn't have to mess it with it at all beyond setting it up. Back then it was just
1 laptop, 1 older personal pc , a wii (netflix mostly), a ds, and an iphone.
Now I have
1 laptop, 3 personal pcs (1 work, 1 for home use, 1 old one that doesn't really see any usage), wii, ds, 3ds, iphone, android phone, android tablet, and a 2 tb raid system that is constantly streaming from dropbox. Thinking of getting a wireless printer too. Comcast is my cable provider.
I do a fair amount of streaming netflix to my iphone and wii, and my wife has been working from home alot the last few months. Also we video chat via skype with family from time to time. My wifes job just gave her a raid storage device so she can stream files from work (via dropbox) so its always going to be on. And I like to play multiplayer games from time to time as well, when I have the time and most of my games are on steam. Not to mention having to do my own working from home (though its rare). Finally, my 7 year occasionally goes on the internet to selected sites (disney), and school sometimes has them using the computer.
Everything still works, but the other day when I went to download some app updates for my iphone, they kept failing (reset connection errors). I had retry them several times to get them to go through. I suspect its the raid since I had just set it up and it was syncing files (over 1tb worth).
I guess what my question is is, How many wireless devices and pc's can a typical family router work with, and how do I manage all these devices trying to access the internet, without interfering with each other?
Thanks in advance,
bguile
I have a linksys e2000 wireless router that i bought a few years ago and worked fine for everyday usage. I didn't have to mess it with it at all beyond setting it up. Back then it was just
1 laptop, 1 older personal pc , a wii (netflix mostly), a ds, and an iphone.
Now I have
1 laptop, 3 personal pcs (1 work, 1 for home use, 1 old one that doesn't really see any usage), wii, ds, 3ds, iphone, android phone, android tablet, and a 2 tb raid system that is constantly streaming from dropbox. Thinking of getting a wireless printer too. Comcast is my cable provider.
I do a fair amount of streaming netflix to my iphone and wii, and my wife has been working from home alot the last few months. Also we video chat via skype with family from time to time. My wifes job just gave her a raid storage device so she can stream files from work (via dropbox) so its always going to be on. And I like to play multiplayer games from time to time as well, when I have the time and most of my games are on steam. Not to mention having to do my own working from home (though its rare). Finally, my 7 year occasionally goes on the internet to selected sites (disney), and school sometimes has them using the computer.
Everything still works, but the other day when I went to download some app updates for my iphone, they kept failing (reset connection errors). I had retry them several times to get them to go through. I suspect its the raid since I had just set it up and it was syncing files (over 1tb worth).
I guess what my question is is, How many wireless devices and pc's can a typical family router work with, and how do I manage all these devices trying to access the internet, without interfering with each other?
Thanks in advance,
bguile
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