can someone pease eplain the 5-4-3 rule?

[Sheena]

if plaster is the case, you might want something that is 5ghz and has external antennas on it.

[Sheena]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833181119&nm_mc=KNC-GoogleAdwords&cm_mmc=KNC-GoogleAdwords-_-pla-_-Wireless+AP-_-N82E16833181119&gclid=CObSx9PI7LQCFU6mPAodlzYACw

something like that.. i bought one of those for a client and it works wonderful.

that is a 2.4GHz solution though.

and it is a wireless repeater. the setup is very simple. takes 30 seconds to complete. no cables except the power cord required.

you could buy two of those, and buy some external antennas for them that are bitchin.

bigger antenna, better signal. plaster or not, it wont matter

[crispy_chick3n]

it just takes a standard wifi antenna? like the ones you put on wifi cards for desktops?

[Sheena]

yes sir.

[beaker]

Hubs are not like switches, and it sounds like you're getting a shitload of collisions. Back when switches where expensive, general rule was to seperate the hubs as much as possilbe with a switch in between.

so like this

Router

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Hub ---crossover-- Switch ---crossover-- Hub

Keep in mind that all data on a hub is shared (10 port 100BT Hub is actually 100 divided by 10). Setting it up this way reduces collisions to just the hub, and wont spread through and slow down the network. New switches/routers usually will autosense if the port is being used as an uplink and will crossover the connection automaticly to another switch/hub. That is also the case with Wireless access points. I would keep as many as you can to load balance the devices to the router. if you're doing 54g and have 8 devices on it, thats 54/8.

http://www.newegg.co...N82E16833118143

I've been using those switches 24/7 in my house for 2 years. They're also 40% off right now. I've never had to reboot one and last I checked they had over 30TB that had run through them. Cant beat 8 port gigabit for 17.99.

[Sheena]

nice find beaks.

[beaker]

Also forgot to mention, they also have jumbo frame support. I frequently copy from my file server at a sustained 95 megs a second.

I just noticed I linked the wrong one, though they look exactly the same.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833118148

[Basshead89]

If you do have 2 modems (internet connections) coming into the house.... the Main Router will have to support Dual WAN's

Here is one http://www.cisco.com...c78-501225.html

also this http://www.newegg.co...N82E16833124160

and this one http://www.peplink.com/balance/

Basically use one of three I have linked as your main router.

All of the switches will do their job. As far as wireless either use wireless repeaters or wireless access points to get full coverage.

These are great and come in a 3 pack and can all be managed from one computer with their software.

http://www.ubnt.com/unifi

if you don't want to worry about getting power to those, use the pro versions of those access points (pro version are standard POE)

[kingsuv]

Don't know about this crazy computer talk, but a 3-4-5 is to square out a corner of a house when framing