In our house the PS3 is not just for gaming. It’s used as a media center, web radio (Pandora.com works nicely), and DVD player among other things (it only does everything, remember?) We rent movies from PSN, use PS3 Media Server to download or stream music, video, and pictures from a Windows PC, and yes, sometimes we actually game (or I do.) At first we used the PS3’s built in wireless to connect to the access point, a Linksys WRT54GS v1 running Tomato 1.27. The problem is the PS3 sits in a cabinet on the opposite floor/wall from the office where the AP resides. Basically, it’s as far away as you can get in a 2500sq² house. Because of this, throughput was averaging 5 – 8Mbps with ~70ms ping times. This is (barely) adequate for gaming, but not much else. Downloads from the PC or internet took seemingly forever, and whenever we rented a movie from PSN we had to wait 20 minutes before we could start watching lest we be interrupted when the buffer ran out. What could be done to improve this?