Will this work.....

[Daymonkey]

Me not being a networking person, i have decided to ask you lot about this. So i have a router already but would i be able to run another router off of that router if you get my meaning and get ip addresses on all pcs (or would there only be one for each)

Cheers

Daymonkey/Stuart

[directhex]

erm... i'm not sure i get what you're after. a router acts as a DHCP sevrre and can provide usually up to 253 IP addresses. if you don't have a 253 port router, you want a 15 quid network switch to act as a repeater, certainly not another router

[Daymonkey]

alright then will get a switch would i need to do anything specific to get it set up this way or will it just be plug and surf will be running 2 linux boxes and 2 windows boxes

[directhex]

just plug things together - you MAY, depending on your brand of router, need to use the 'uplink' port on the switch to connect it to the router

[Daymonkey]

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=26037
will probably get one of these in the new year its got good reviews etc
(sorry i posted this in the wrong forum by mistake)