On 6/20/10 10:48 PM, "MegaZone" <[email protected]> wrote:
> You can use TiVo's 802.11g adapter, or their new 802.11n bridge - or any > external WiFi bridge device. If you have multiple devices going into the > entertainment center than need Internet - like TiVo, a gaming box, Blu-ray > player, etc - I strongly advise using an external bridge device and > connecting all of the other devices to it using wired Ethernet. This is > MUCH better than putting every device on WiFi directly. On the TiVo website, I see G and N wireless adapters, but no bridge devices. Is TiVo¹s branded 802.11n bridge device not released for sale yet? My router is an Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station. It has 4 autosensing 1000bT Ethernet ports, and it allows wireless ³G² devices to operate on the 2.4 GHz band, ³N² devices on (I think) 5.5 GHz so that ³G² devices don¹t throttle back communications between ³N² devices. Perhaps they all do this. I also have an Apple Airport Express ³N² device, which can operate as a bridge OR a router. It has a single 1000bT Ethernet port. I THINK I could connect this to a 4-port switch in my entertainment cabinet and run Ethernet patch cables between the bridge and my TiVo, PlayStation, and (if needed at some point) the TV itself. Is that correct? Thanks so much for the advice. I plan to avoid the PowerLine stuff if possible. Netgear markets at least 4 flavors of such devices, and even its own devices don¹t all communicate with one another. Jim Robertson -- [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
