Sharing Issues

I have a problem with sharing. Sharing my wireless bandwidth that is. I've recently noticed serious lag on my 360 since moving it to my homemade wireless adapter (see a couple of blogs ago). I usually play while my laptop is on and have not seen any problems. BUT, if the kids laptop is connected I'll see enormous ping spikes on my laptop and my xbox will show a single red bar and it will be laggy as hell. Not good when you are trying to avoid a Tank in Left4Dead.  P2P file sharing over a wireless connection does not appear to play nice with gaming. So I ordered another $25 router. The new router is an N and the same model as my existing primary router. Using DD-WRT I'll convert it to a wireless adapter so I'll have N speeds between the xbox and the primary router and I'll take my existing wireless adapter router and set it to be a normal router and point the laptops to it. This way I won't have any leeching of gaming bandwidth!

I also discovered another advantage to using a router as a wireless adapter. Since it has four ports in the back, I've connected both my 360 and Xbox Media Center to it. I don't believe DD-WRT can handle two devices in wireless adapter mode but that's not a problem for me, either the 360 is on or the XBMC is on at any given time so there is no conflict.