Connect a switch to a router

[joshkins101]

Ok

1. My houes has ethernet wall jacks

2. My computer and Ps2 and xbox is in my room

3. I have a switch and a router

So can I put the switch in my room, and have its uplink come from the router and be able to play socom 3 and be on the computer in my room at the same time? If so, how?

[phend-one]

Plug a ethernet cable into the wall, into the "uplink" port on your switch. Plug all your devices into the switch. Viola! It should work!

[505]

Generaly, you don't need a router. If you connect a cable from the ethernet jack to the uplink port of you switch, and from the switch to all your devices it should work. The central router (or whatever - the one where all the wall jacks go to) will give each machine a unique (internal) IP address.

[joshkins101]

Yea i would do that, but I have hard headed parents that think they know everything, but thnx.

But will it ork the way I said?

[SMeK Veteran]

Im currently using an ADSL router with 4 ports downstairs, 2 pcs connected to it, then a lan cable runs upstairs to a Netgear 5 port switch. Setting the 5th port to link mode works straight away and both pcs in my room work a treat. If your switch supports linking, it should work fine.

[Bi0haZarD]

yes this shoudl work, its what setup i have right now, i got the modem + router in our living room, then a wire ran under the house to a wall jack in my room. I then go from the wall jack to the switch using standard straight through cable into my switch. from the switch to my main computer and my server. runs perfectly fine.

  505 said:

Generaly, you don't need a router. If you connect a cable from the ethernet jack to the uplink port of you switch, and from the switch to all your devices it should work. The central router (or whatever - the one where all the wall jacks go to) will give each machine a unique (internal) IP address.

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this however has been untrue for all the ISP's i've setup for friends & family, the first computer on gets the IP from the ISP, then the second computer can't get it since the account is already i use.. switches don't have MAC Addresses so the MAC address that is sent to the ISP is the one of your NIC. Routers have MAC addresses and thats why they work, because the ISP only sends it to 1 MAC address and its the job of the router to fid out what computer requested the data. and the switch doesn't give out IP's.. a computer connected to just a switch will have an IP of 169.254.XXX.XXX. since theres no DHCP server.

hope this clarifies that.