When I explained that I was wiring the Vi’s house with network cable in preparation for my move, my friends expressed curiosity as to why I wouldn’t just use wireless. There are some obvious reasons like not wanting to have to buy adapter cards for desktop computers. The most important reason, however, is that this area is wifi-hostile. Nothing stays connected consistently, even in the same room as the access port. It’s not an access point problem (we’ve replaced the one already). Just look at the insanity:

This is the view just from my new (home) office.
(While I was typing this, 3 more APs popped up!)

We’re exacerbating the issue by having two access points in the house (third floor and second floor). There’s a chance one will even go on the first floor, although that’s yet to be decided. The two APs (Miss Piggy, which is really WPA2 / AES, not WEP) are backbone-linked with cat-5e (should be 6, but I forgot to pre-order from Monoprice.). They both are WRT-54GL routers running Tomat. Because they share the same SSID and security information my devices roam seamlessly between the two. It’s pretty damn cool.

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