ajkidle;538645 Wrote: 
> Let me throw in one additional wrinkle.

No sense getting into wrinkles until you get the above to work. :)

> Due to the physical constraints of the house, it may be necessary to add
> a switch to this setup.  Wondering if such a network design is horribly
> flawed.  The connections would be:
> 
> U-Verse Gateway --> Netgear Router (configured as an access point) -->
> Netgear Switch --> Hard Wired Devices

Should be no problems.  You should try, though, to get everything
working on the same subnet first.

> Both the router and the switch would be gigabit, the gateway is 100
> Mbps.  Some devices would connect directly to the gateway via 100 Mbps
> ethernet, some directly to the router via 11n, and some to the switch
> via 1 Gbps ethernet.  None of the traffic is particularly demandind in
> terms of bandwidth -- squeezeboxen, internet, an occassional file
> transfer between machines.
> 
> Networking is not my strong suit.  Can I expect this to work?  Would
> the slower ethernet speed on the gateway slow down the gigabit traffic
> between devices on either the router or the switch?

No, it should not.


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Jim
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