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4Crawler · 04-10-2009, 09:10 AM

I picked up a nice 8-port gig-E switch at Frys about a year ago for under $100. And a few years back I installed a Buffalo Air Station wireless router. If you have any Buffalo WiFi cards, it makes a nice setup as they have a really clean setup utility (AOSS) built in to set up the network keys and all that stuff. I think you can also use their drivers with a lot of other wireless cards as well. I also saw a decent speedup in cable modem throughput swapping my old Link Sys wireless router for the Buffalo unit (http://buffalotech.com/). I have everything wired plugged into the switch then a single cable from switch to the wireless router and a single cable from there to the Comcast-supplied Ambit DOCSIS3 cable modem.

04-10-2009, 09:10 AM	#9 (permalink)
4Crawler Contributing Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: SF Bay Area, CA Posts: 7,836	I picked up a nice 8-port gig-E switch at Frys about a year ago for under $100. And a few years back I installed a Buffalo Air Station wireless router. If you have any Buffalo WiFi cards, it makes a nice setup as they have a really clean setup utility (AOSS) built in to set up the network keys and all that stuff. I think you can also use their drivers with a lot of other wireless cards as well. I also saw a decent speedup in cable modem throughput swapping my old Link Sys wireless router for the Buffalo unit (http://buffalotech.com/). I have everything wired plugged into the switch then a single cable from switch to the wireless router and a single cable from there to the Comcast-supplied Ambit DOCSIS3 cable modem. __________________ 1985 Toyota 4Runner SR-5, 22REC engine, dual t-cases, 4.88 gears, dual ARBs, 33x10.50 BFGs or 35x12.50 MTRs r.c.brown@ieee.org TruckEditor@tlca.org Project: 4Crawler 4Crawler OffRoad Gettin'Off 4WD Club Last edited by 4Crawler; 04-10-2009 at 10:32 AM.