"So literally last weekend I cabled my house with 5 runs of 100 meg ethernet and a couple of long patch leads in the living room and stuffed in a cheap 8 port n

"So literally last weekend I cabled my house with 5 runs of 100 meg ethernet and a couple of long patch leads in the living room and stuffed in a cheap 8 port netgear switch from ebay. Plugged the whole thing into my router and turned off the WiFi entirely just using it as a switch + NAT combo." Exactly. I don't give out a lot of tech-guy advice to folks these days, and most people don't even think of me as "the computer guy" in their social circle ... but any chance I have I implore people to hardwire their networking connections. No matter how good your AP is or how nice your Sonos mesh algorithm is or how clear your airspace is ... you will deal with random, annoying, difficult to diagnose wireless comms issues. It's very easy to make that entire class of problem disappear from your life. It's also a lot faster. EDIT: actually, this post will seem a bit disingenuous when we (rsync.net) officially announce the drive-up feature at our datacenter locations. We're stacking the deck in our favor by using Ubiquiti long-range APs ...