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. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77669 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
