Have you really had problems with tree's of switches? I have a 4-port wireless router, and plug 2 5-port switches and an 8-port hub into it.
I've never had any problems due to this approach and it is more useful than just having a single 16-port switch in that I can have the machines further apart from each other. The only advantage your approach would give me is that I could run a dedicated computer as a router and have more functionality there, which is on the todo list. Even then, I'd still use 5-port switches and not one big 16-port. Hen On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Jerry Yeager wrote: > If you are running only one computer and a USB printer then I would agree. > But if you are running a couple of wired (ethernet) machines along with > several network printers along with some wireless computers off of a base > station that is connected to the LAN then the separate switch approach makes > more sense because you have a lot more ports to plug things into. If you shop > around the prices of switches (Asante) are quite inexpensive. > > Jerry > > On Nov 16, 2004, at 11:37 AM, Lee Larson wrote: > >> On Nov 15, 2004, at 10:39 PM, Jerry Yeager suggested: >> >>> I might suggest that your friend do the following: >>> Instead of getting a four port router, get a one port router and then a >>> gizmo called called a multi-port switch. It will be hooked up like this: >>> >>> internet <<++>> (cable/dsl) modem <==> router <==> switch <---- >>> computer one >>> >>> <---- >>> computer two >>> >>> <---- >>> printer one >>> >>> <---- >>> printer two >>> >>> <---- >>> other stuff if you want it. >>> >>> <---- >>> more other stuff >>> >>> (a four port router that you see being listed is really a one port router >>> with a four port switch connected to it, all in one box). >> >> Jerry, >> >> It seems to me that for the vast majority of people this just makes it more >> complicated and expensive without gaining much. Most cable/DSL routers I've >> seen recently have four-port 10/100 switches built in. Printing, surfing, >> e-mail and normal file sharing gain nothing from going gigabit locally. You >> always poke a gigabit switch into one port of the router, in the unlikely >> event that you feel the need for more speed later on, to, say, move video >> between machines. >> >> L^2 >> >> > ----------------------------------- > Someday, I will come up with a clever signature line. I am not sure if I will > use it or not, but I will come up with one. > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be November 23. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be November 23. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
