"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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I ran out of ports on my old four-port wired Netgear router, so, instead of
buying a switch and adding it on, I bought a wired Linksys eight-port
router. Ran a speed test immediately afterwards and noticed to my delight a
20% uptick in download speed. My old Netgear router was about five years
old, I guess, and the Linksys router I bought was introduced two years ago,
I was told.

Interestingly, the number of wired routers available is down substantially
since the advent of WiFi. I suppose almost everyone is going wireless in
the home, but I still think wired is mo' betta. When we built this house,
I connected several rooms with Cat5e cable. I do use wireless at the
kitchen table sometimes, and it works just fine, but it is not nearly as
fast as wired.

The new router is a BEFSR81. Well under $100, if you're shopping for one.

I have the same setup, only I had to run the cat cable after the house was
built. I wired both kids bedrooms, my office, my wife's office and the
basement game room.