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Zeste · 02-10-2008, 04:13 PM

The consoles won't eat a ton of bandwidth over the 100mbit, since my internet is barley 5Mb down. My slingbox I can tune to use as much as I want, the only thing that would eat a ton out at the TV is the AppleTV, since I'll have most of my videos stored at my computer, so I'll be pulling HD movies/tv shows over the network to the AppleTV, but even then if I Am watching AppleTV I won't be using much else.

So, let me get this straight:

I have a cable modem, which plugs into the WAN port on my wireless G router. Then, I plug the 16 port switch into the 1st port on my router, and then all the cables run to the switch. But also, I put a single cable out ot the TV, and plug in a 6 port switch there too. Then the Router takes care of the DHCP? Isn't the cable from the switch to the router a huge bottleneck?

02-10-2008, 04:13 PM	#8 (permalink)
Zeste Ben's Secret Assassins - HIPPITY HOP RABBIT Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 3,098 +21 Internets	The consoles won't eat a ton of bandwidth over the 100mbit, since my internet is barley 5Mb down. My slingbox I can tune to use as much as I want, the only thing that would eat a ton out at the TV is the AppleTV, since I'll have most of my videos stored at my computer, so I'll be pulling HD movies/tv shows over the network to the AppleTV, but even then if I Am watching AppleTV I won't be using much else. So, let me get this straight: I have a cable modem, which plugs into the WAN port on my wireless G router. Then, I plug the 16 port switch into the 1st port on my router, and then all the cables run to the switch. But also, I put a single cable out ot the TV, and plug in a 6 port switch there too. Then the Router takes care of the DHCP? Isn't the cable from the switch to the router a huge bottleneck? __________________ Locke: Where do you get electricity? Ben: We have two big hamsters running around in this giant wheel in our secret underground lair. Locke: Yeah, that's funny.