Hi all,
I now have 20meg broadband (nominally), and need a switch so that my two housemates and I can all use it. We don't want wireless, so i'm looking at 5 port switches on SCAN. Basically we want something fast to make the most of the connection, but I can't really tell what will be faster that what else!
I'm looking at:
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...oductID=421262
Please advise!
Cheers
That Asus one would be fine for what you want. Just doesn't have Gigabit ( 1000MBs) ethernet..which isn't a problem if it's just being used for the net.
I bought an 8-port 3Com gigabit switch with 9000byte jumbo frame support.
Nice to have gigabit for network backups etc.
Also nice to have 8 ports over 5 - bit of breathing room.
Not available from SCAN though.
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If you're planning on plugging the cable modem and PC's into the switch then it ain't gonna work as you're thinking, you need a router in order to share the connection.
You could run ICS on a PC but then that PC has to be turned on for the others to get internet access.
Something like a Linksys WRT54GL would do the job very nicely.
Million (12-09-2007)
Well spotted burble, potential gotcha there.
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you could just use the cheapest access router you could find and have a gigabit switch.
Depends how much you treasure your intranet transfer speeds.
Thanks for pointing that out burble - exactly what I needed to know! Funny, I told the Virgin Media guy who checked out availability about my plan to plug a switch into the router to share the connection and he said it would work...
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...oductID=510112
How about that one?
thats what i've got
its not a bad router.
Sometimes the configuration page can be a bit of a pain, as its a bit unintuitive.
try one of the LinkSys ones
I installed that at my cousins place. The only problem was for some reason the installation wizard didn't transfer the WPA security settings i told it to the router itself, but i just added them again manually when everything else was working.Originally Posted by Million
This may well be fixed on a newer firmware of install software version. It was about a year ago i did this.
Seems to be working well from what i can tell since then
You can plug a switch into the router but it isn't a router that Virgin Media give you - it's just a cable modem.
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