Original Setup

As this project starts the house network is made up as follows:

Network Hardware:
Motorola SB5120 cable modem
Linksys WRT54G running dd-wrt in gateway mode
Linksys WRT54GS running dd-wrt in router mode as wireless bridge

Server:
AMD K6-2 400MHz 196MB RAM running FreeBSD for DNS, DHCP, NTP, and network storage as well as IPv6 routing

Hosts:
3 TiVos 2 wireless adapters, 1 via wireless bridge
1 Desktop Windows 2K wired
3 Desktops Windows XP 2 wired, 1 via wireless bridge
1 Laptop Windows Vista wireless
1 Laptop FreeBSD wireless
2 Desktops Mac OSX 1 wired, 1 via wireless bridge
1 Laptop Mac OSX wireless
2 PS3 1 wireless, 1 wireless bridge
1 Nintendo DS wireless
1 PSP wireless
1 iPhone wireless

As you can see most of the traffic is passing over wireless, and it was really starting to slow things down more than a little. Especially when the DS, PSP, or FreeBSD laptop is being used as the wireless drops back into b mode. Also as the wireless bridge would not relay IPv6 properly (not a transparent bridge) the XP and OSX machines also had wireless adaptors on them directly for IPv6 only. Their connection to the bridge was to make use of the switch as I transfer a large amount of data between them and the other devices on that switch. Just keeping as much off the wireless as I could.

Also as much of this was put together 'in the moment' over time, it was a little messy. Here are a few pictures of some of the mess.

Original Setup