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| I have a Linksys HG200 ADSL modem/router that only has one ethernet port
which is currently being used by my computer. I want to use voip but
because the HG200 only has the one port I can't. How can I expand the
number of ports without buying a new modem? Will this work?
http://www.microdirect.co.uk/Produc...667&GroupID=295
Can I just plug the ethernet cable from the HG200 into that and I'll then
have five ports? Or is it not that simple?
Thanks for your help.
June
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| Gareth Halfacree 2006-09-26, 1:11 pm |
| June wrote:
> I have a Linksys HG200 ADSL modem/router that only has one ethernet port
> which is currently being used by my computer. I want to use voip but
> because the HG200 only has the one port I can't. How can I expand the
> number of ports without buying a new modem? Will this work?
> http://www.microdirect.co.uk/Produc...667&GroupID=295
Yes, that would work. Although you could get an 8 port switch from
another supplier for around the same price - shop around.
> Can I just plug the ethernet cable from the HG200 into that and I'll then
> have five ports? Or is it not that simple?
Four ports. The single port on the router has a cable attached which
goes into one port on the switch leaving four ports spare for other devices.
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Gareth Halfacree
http://gareth.halfacree.co.u
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| On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:22:47 +0100, Gareth Halfacree wrote:
> June wrote:
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> Yes, that would work. Although you could get an 8 port switch from
> another supplier for around the same price - shop around.
Ok. I'll get shopping.
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> Four ports. The single port on the router has a cable attached which
> goes into one port on the switch leaving four ports spare for other devices.
Many thanks for your help, Gareth.
June.
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| June wrote:
> I have a Linksys HG200 ADSL modem/router that only has one ethernet port
> which is currently being used by my computer. I want to use voip but
> because the HG200 only has the one port I can't. How can I expand the
> number of ports without buying a new modem? Will this work?
> http://www.microdirect.co.uk/Produc...667&GroupID=295
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> Can I just plug the ethernet cable from the HG200 into that and I'll then
> have five ports? Or is it not that simple?
It is that simple.... You probably dont need it, as these things generally
autosense these days, but you might want to get a 'cross over patch cable'
to connect the switch to the router, shouldnt cost more then a couple of
pounds.
Good luck
Gaz
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| Ivor Jones 2006-09-28, 1:11 am |
| "Gaz" <gazter@msn.com> wrote in message
news:4o0gidFcfbe7U1@individual.net
> June wrote:
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> It is that simple.... You probably dont need it, as these
> things generally autosense these days, but you might want
> to get a 'cross over patch cable' to connect the switch
> to the router, shouldnt cost more then a couple of pounds.
I think you'll find that most switches are, if not autosensing, designed
to use normal cables to connect to a router or whatever anyway. My two
Linksys ones certainly are.
My advice to the OP would be to try a normal cable, only get a crossover
one if that doesn't work.
Ivor
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