On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, tjpa wrote:
On Feb 18, 2010, at 6:47 PM, David D Odell wrote:
I have 2 routers sitting around unused (Linksys BEFSR41 - 4 port plus WAN
and uplink ports) and a Linksys EFAHO5W - 5 port plus Uplink). Is there a
practical way to use the other routers to expand my total number of
available ports or would I be better off just buying a larger router?
Yes, you could program the router to act as a switch.
Or the lazy way (what I would do) is to ignore the uplink/WAN ports and just
use the 4/5 ports to interconnect your additional devices.
Yes, I would go the lazy way also. Free up a couple ports on the "real"
router (the one really connected to the Internet). Then run cables from
those ports you just freed up to local (non-uplink) ports on the other
routers. You should then have 7 more ports (3 on BEFSR41 and 4 on EFAO5W)
to use for other devices... including the 2 computers you had to
disconnect from the "real" router.
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Vicky Staubly http://www.steeds.com/vicky/ [email protected]
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