It’s strange how trends are cyclical. After having my laptop for so long, I never thought that I’d find myself at Best Buy shopping for a 5-port wired Ethernet switch.
As I’ve investigated my Windows 7 Media Center installation further, I have received advice from far and wide that a wired network is the way to achieve optimal performance so I liberated myself from $27 today and picked up a switch to extend the 10/100 network provided by my wireless cable gateway to the rest of the Media Center rig.
It seems that wireless cards aren’t the only thing that Best Buy is overpriced on. They had Category 6 network cables at the low, low price of $13 for a three foot cable. I turned around and ordered three five-foot cables and a 25 foot cable from NewEgg with shipping for $21. So my entire wired network will be with the new and superior Cat-6 cable. Thankfully, it is backward compatible with standard Ethernet ports so I should be good to go.
This paves the way for an upgrade to enable Clear QAM HD recording after the first of the year, which should be pretty awesome!
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