I currently have a load of devices on my network, and no secondary router to support them all yet, because my last one soft bricked under a configuration issue that I'd need to futz around with a TTL to USB cable to fix.
I currently have:
2 set top boxes, one being the DVR, both on HomePNA.
There's still an entry in the 2wire for my old router holding up the DMZ+ setting, until I go in there and clear it out.
Two desktop machines, wired by Ethernet.
One or more bridge mode virtual machines on my own desktop, which appear in the table as well.
Living room setup consisting of a PS3, a desktop machine, an Amazon Fire TV, and an HDHomerun TV tuner, all wired to an 8 port gigabit switch, which is in turn wired back to one of the ports on the 2wire.
Two laptops on the wifi.
Two Nook Simple Touch readers occasionally popping up on the wifi.
My Google Nexus 4 phone on the wifi.
My iPad mini, iPod touch, Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 7.0, and Nokia Lumia 520 phone, also on the wifi. (I needed to buy a bunch of hardware for a development project, as testbed equipment.)
So... 7 wired devices, 9 wireless devices. And the two set top boxes.
Ever since I've been running this many devices lately on the 2wire gateway, it seems to be rebooting itself almost every other day now. I'll log into my machine in the morning to find that it has loaded a "Broadband is down" page on 192.168.1.254 in every one of my tabs.
I'm planning to shunt all of that equipment, sans the set top boxes, onto a new router soon.
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