[TomGuy]

and limit the number of connected devices to 1 or 2 more than you can reasonably expect to be connected

More 'stuff' is coming available that uses wireless. When I set up my first router about 5 years ago, I just had a wired desktop computer and a wireless laptop.

Over the years, I added a ROKU box for Netflix. It would not recognize the old Belcan router, so I had to upgrade to a Cisco/Linksys.

I later added a WDTV box with wireless. And I added a 3TB WD NAS wireless hard drive.

If they build it, we will buy ... :)

[petro45acp]

“...If they build it, we will buy ... :)”

Not to mention every family laptop, tablet, wireless enabled smartphone, book reader, smart-blu-ray, and TV... The mac-address filter page gets half full in short order.

That max connected devices gets bumped every time a new device needs to connect. It is really just a way to keep the pirates from having too easy a time of it.

Plus, in the classic “out run a grizzly bear defense,” there are plenty of ‘slower’ folk in the neighborhood who run bare-naked-default routers....

[freedumb2003]

>>More ‘stuff’ is coming available that uses wireless<<

Hey don’t scare the guy! I didn’t want to tell him my fridge AND my microwave were flashing they will perform “maintenance quiescence” should I not equip them IMMEDIATELY with both 802.11Q AND Bluetooth.

Q?

They also darkly hinted about USB 5.0 — what the heck does that look like? Bus-n-Tag???

“Christine” and “Killdozer weren’t SF movies — they were coming attractions!