Thanks, I immediately saw the DIY angle on all the posts and honestly, I’m relieved. I always use Reddit to find answers, but never have posted. My first post and I was curious on what type of response I was going to get. I thought I might get a bunch of responses with different consumer routers to buy, which would have been fine too. But, like I mentioned in an another reply, I now have rabbit holes to go down and you all have given me some good advice on how to approach them.

I’ll check that out too!

Yes! I’ll definitely look into this. Although, my r7000 handled static great, when there was a problem it was exhausting trying to get it to work. Which always seemed to end up with me rebooting it. :/ My setup is an old android tablet with a webpage saved for each scaler. When I want to change any settings for my genesis scaler, I click on that and change the settings. And I can quickly do this for all of my scalers. I had this on my phone, but I have 9 of them and sometimes they would get closed or need to be reopened, or sometimes I just didn’t have my phone next to me while I was gaming. If I don’t want them set to a specific IP, I will lose my ability to open that specific unit. (Although, since my new router hides its settings for static, I haven’t had this for the past couple of weeks)

Good to hear cables haven’t changed. I remember telling people over 20 years ago that CAT 5 cables and CAT 5e cables were ridiculous because no one was transferring over 12MB per second, lol. When I did my last setup I put in CAT6, but it seems there was not reason over CAT5(e). Good to hear that I don’t need CAT 8. Although, I am sure there are some use cases.