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sjdigital
Nov 09, 2011Aspirant
What router to use with Time Machine
I have given up trying to get my BT Home Hub 3.0 to work with Time Machine and my ReadyNAS Duo so I intend to replace it with another wireless router that will. Obviously the Apple Airport Extreme is...
sphardy1
Nov 09, 2011Apprentice
Strangely the BT Home Hub 3.0 has just one Gigabit port. I've never understood the logic of having just one such port
Agreed - that makes no sense at all. Unless the fibre optic connection was providing you >100MBps WAN connection
The router doesn't need a gigabit port for your to be able to connect a gigabit switch. And even with one it woudl make very little performance difference as the point of a switch is to avoid traffic going through the router
There is one point to consider with the AEBS though - it only has 4 ports, not 4 LAN ports and one WAN port like many other routers. One of the AEBS ports is used as a WAN or a LAN port, depending on how you set it up
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