I've always thought the additional ports on wireless routers superflouos. I can't imagine too many situations where the ideal place for wireless broadcasting also the place where you want a nest of ethernet cabling to terminate. I live in a pretty standard two-story home and try to keep the wireless router as close to the center of the home as possible. This puts it on the main floor where I don't have a single permanently desked machine. I have a single hardline run to the switches in a basement closet where all of my wiring terminates (also typical). When I first moved in I did make do with placing the router down there but it became quickly obvious that broadcasting my wireless from the most remote, concrete-fortified corner of the house was not ideal. And I don't think my wife would be too keen on my rewiring the house to have everything terminate in the nook on the main floor where the router sits.
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I've always thought the additional ports on wireless routers superflouos. I can't imagine too many situations where the ideal place for wireless broadcasting also the place where you want a nest of ethernet cabling to terminate. I live in a pretty standard two-story home and try to keep the wireless router as close to the center of the home as possible. This puts it on the main floor where I don't have a single permanently desked machine. I have a single hardline run to the switches in a basement closet where all of my wiring terminates (also typical). When I first moved in I did make do with placing the router down there but it became quickly obvious that broadcasting my wireless from the most remote, concrete-fortified corner of the house was not ideal. And I don't think my wife would be too keen on my rewiring the house to have everything terminate in the nook on the main floor where the router sits.