Hello,
I am planning an upgrade of my wireless router from a Linksys WRT54G, spurred by my desire to set up shared NAS for my extensive photo and video collection. I'm open to suggestions on my best options.
We are 2 adults and three teen/preteen kids living on 3 floors/2500 sf with a Comcast basic internet service. We run my win 7 desktop, 2 windows laptops, 2 android wifi tablets, 2 wifi Ipods, an xbox360, a Wii, 2 3DS's, and zero smartphones. we have a 1 year old Samsung HDTV with wireless capability, a 2yo home theater projector system system and I have a 3TB USB3.0 drive to hook up as NAS.
I run OpenDNS via browser and schedule internet access on the Linksys router software for parental control and need to maintain specific schedules for each device.
Althoough we do not stream over the network I plan to do whatever my devices will allow once I figure out the details. We might consider a faster internet service down the road, but not right now. We are cellphone-only.
I expect to maintain individual control over the access of each device regardless of internet connection, so access to the router locally is important. I'm not an IT guy but catch on well. I'm not concerned about spending $150 or so if it gets me what I need, although I don't want to be locked into any brand or service down the road.
I am planning an upgrade of my wireless router from a Linksys WRT54G, spurred by my desire to set up shared NAS for my extensive photo and video collection. I'm open to suggestions on my best options.
We are 2 adults and three teen/preteen kids living on 3 floors/2500 sf with a Comcast basic internet service. We run my win 7 desktop, 2 windows laptops, 2 android wifi tablets, 2 wifi Ipods, an xbox360, a Wii, 2 3DS's, and zero smartphones. we have a 1 year old Samsung HDTV with wireless capability, a 2yo home theater projector system system and I have a 3TB USB3.0 drive to hook up as NAS.
I run OpenDNS via browser and schedule internet access on the Linksys router software for parental control and need to maintain specific schedules for each device.
Althoough we do not stream over the network I plan to do whatever my devices will allow once I figure out the details. We might consider a faster internet service down the road, but not right now. We are cellphone-only.
I expect to maintain individual control over the access of each device regardless of internet connection, so access to the router locally is important. I'm not an IT guy but catch on well. I'm not concerned about spending $150 or so if it gets me what I need, although I don't want to be locked into any brand or service down the road.