Any home network experts out there?

Just bought a new house

6200sqft including the basement.

3 floors
1st floor - kitchen, living, dining, office, den(central point of house), garage, screened porch

2nd floor - master suite with screened porch, computer room(farthest corner of house above garage), 3 bedrooms, media room(above den)

basement - family room(kids video games systems), workout room, photography studio(with my PC), extra bedroom/storage area unfinished.

I'm having the hardest time coming up with what router to get. We are an extremely wired family, any suggestions? So far I'm looking at:

Asus RT-N56U Dual-Band Gigabit Wireless-N Router http://www.amazon.com …TF8&qid=1313780​444&sr=1-1

Thinking I might have to get a powerline adapter for the computer room above the garage?

I was going to locate the router in the den...central point of the house. Is the house too big to service with 1 router? I'm moving from a 1900 sqft Cape. We were well past the point we needed a larger house.

At any point in time we would have connected to the internet 1-3 blackberries, 1 Iphone, 3 Laptops, my PC, my HTPC, Xbox 360, playstation, wii, Ipad, Eye-fi cards...Obviously not all at once but we have 5 users...some of whom(me) have been known to rock more than one wifi connected device at a time.

So... I know we're all knowledgeable about photography...but help me out here who's got the networking experience?

I need the big house....my mother in law is now going to be living with us...and between mother in law, wife, kids, 2 dogs (all of whom I love dearly!) I'll need the room to get away!

Plus the new home finally gets me my studio! I'm moved in now and the rest of the family will be moving in next weekend! Three months away has been no fun especially from my 1 yr old daughter.

You shouldn't have trouble covering your house with one well-place wireless router. Second floor, mid house. I have setup a similar layout and an ages old WRT54G, which even covers the back patio.

I started 10 years ago with a state of the art 10 Mbps OfficeConnect hub and firewall. I added 54 Mbps wireless years later. Once my wife and I started to get serious with photography, it just did not seem fast enough. The files you wanted to edit always seemed to be on the other computer rather than the one that was available. The wireless router was in the midle of the house, but it wasn't fast enough when transferring images from a full SD card, and I got tired helping people setup wireless access.

I made a big change. A really big change. Almost every room in our house is now wired for gigabit ethernet. A couple of key rooms like the kitchen, master bedroom and family room have 2 to 4 ports each. The basement has a 24 port 10/100/1000 NetGear switch (EBay real cheap) , Netgear N600 wireless router and a terabyte My Book Live network drive. All computers have gigabit network cards. The system is blindingly fast. Internet download speed tests rocketed from 7 Mbps with the old 10 Mbps hub to 21 Mbps with the new hardware. My local RoadRunner provider has a 30Mbps Extreme but I am not paying for that.

I ended up replacing our DVD with an LG BD670 Blue Ray DVD player that has been connected to the home network. Besides the ability to download Netflix movies from the web, the BD670 can play slideshows off our Terabyte network drive. Now, when we get home from a shoot, one of the first things we do is batch process all of our RAW shots into lower resolution JPEGs so the family can watch them on the TV in the family room. Our daughters can even migrate through the directories to find slideshows from other family outings to show friends.

Between hardware (new and EBay), wiring and a couple of new tools, I spent about $1k.

Where's the entry/access point for the ISP's feed? I'd incline to wired or a high-speed (200 MBps) PowerLine adapter between there and your access point, assuming that the "computer room" will be used for file servers/printers that many people will need access to. Also the dimensions and construction, rather than just the square footage, will be more useful. Block walls between the garage and the rest of the house will make wireless a serious non-starter there, as will aluminum vapor barriers if the garage is unheated.

My personal preference for router placement is low, in the basement where possible, so the router signal's somewhat shielded from the outside world.