Any downside to this config?

[ColinTaylor]

... but I'm a contributor to the standard, and have worked on chipsets, devices, and products/services...

Do you have a link to the technical standards docs? It's something that I've been interested in for a while now but couldn't find any official documentation. Probably buried somewhere on the IEEE site.

 

[sfx2000]

Do you have a link to the technical standards docs? It's something that I've been interested in for a while now but couldn't find any official documentation. Probably buried somewhere on the IEEE site.

IEEE makes specs available via IEEE Get - many of them are free to download once you put in an email point of contact..

http://standards.ieee.org/about/get/802/802.11.html

 

[gatorback]

Unless there is a physical reason why Ethernet can not be connected, it is worth the time and effort to properly run an Ethernet cord to the TV, because it is a bandwidth intensive device. I have done 300ft Ethernet runs. If you own your home then this option is that much more attractive. If you use cable TV + cablemodem, then it may make sense to relocate your NAS, Modem, Router with the TV.

 

[Calisro]

umm. I can run 3 xbmc boxes serving HD content to 3 TVs in different parts of my house from a nas box. You don't need a cable for a TV. This wasn't an issue even on older wifi routers.

 

[punchsuckr]

This "advice" is really bad, honestly... as each one of those "SSID's" will take up management time... and that impacts overall performance on the wireless side...

http://www.revolutionwifi.net/revolutionwifi/p/ssid-overhead-calculator.html

Didn't post here but I ended up going through management traffic overhead articles and found that my current setup is OK I suppose, from that standpoint since I only have 2 unique SSIDs operating, one combined and one guest 5GHz.
Checked the backup throughput logs from my laptops and they are what they were before, around 80Mbps (with data going to a wired desktop I use to store all my computers' backups).