So, now that you know a bit about the underlying makeup of the network in the house. In this Blog I will talk a bit about all the other systems.

Each of the kids have a gaming class rig. My oldest saved up money for a while, and with some parts from dad is running a pretty sweet build. Corsair 540 with all the fans bitfenix spectre with the gold LED's. Asus Z87 pro board, 16GB ram, 4670k, plextar m5 256GB SSD boot, couple of 1TB for storage, and a massive phanteks cooler. Gold one with bitfenix fans on it with the LED's. 660ti,,, Looks really striking. All tied in with powerline to the network.

For the other kids... an 24" all-in-one HP unit, course I did upgrade the CPU, disk, memory... so not so much an HP unit anymore. :) Rest are mid range gaming systems... All hooked up via wireless.

My wife does photo editing and other things, so she has a CAD workstation, Xeon system.

We also have a couple of laptops floating around for the kids to use for homework in the dinning room and to take to school when needed. On the TV's I have Patriot Box Office units as well as HTPC builds for all our viewing pleasure. My main storage system uses PLEX which I love! If you have a large movie/tv collection I recommend you check it out. Anyways, the HTPC's boot right into plex and all the computers in the house can also access it. With friends also using it, at anytime i might be streaming two or three items. Nights can get pretty busy as well with gaming.

Hence the requirements for the rock solid network, at any given time I have an enormous amount of traffic coming in and out. Not to mention voice servers, sending data offsite for backups, etc.

All in all, about 8-9 pc's that I don't directly use each day running here... Did I mention the power company sends me thank you cards? :)