Putting everything on the switch and running a cable to the router is
exactly what I meant to say.

These things happen when you mix toddler + pregnant wife + prepping for
inlaws visting for Christmas.

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On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Zulfiqar Naushad <[email protected]> wrote:

> No. Not the uplink port but rather any one of those 3 ports.
>
> So you will have 2 devices directly on the apple router. 1 port from the
> router to the switch and 1 device to the switch giving you 6 more open ports
> on the router.
>
> I say put everything on the switch and just a cable from the switch to the
> apple router.
>
> Performance should be a bit better since they are all on the single switch
> fabric.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>
> On Dec 20, 2009, at 8:56 PM, Brian Weeden <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>  I'm a bit sleep deprived this morning and wanted to make sure I'm clear on
>> something which is probably a "duh" question.
>>
>> I have more than 3 ethernet devices in my home theater rack and right now
>> my
>> router is an Airport Extreme which only has 3 ethernet ports.   I can just
>> add something like an 8-port Gigabit ethernet swtich, put the router on
>> the
>> uplink port, and presto, I'm all good, right?  Or am I missing something
>> stupid?
>>
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>>
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