How To Add Extra Ports To A Router

[Ice Tea]

http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/images/stories/basics/how_to_add_ports/router_and_switch.jpg

How To Add Ports To A Router

http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/lanwan/lanwan-basics/31442-how-to-add-ports-to-a-router

Don't know if this is of any intrest to anybody but i thought i'd post it before it vanishes of the front page of Smallnetbuilder.


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[Pancake]

This should be stickyed in the network section, some n00bs might not know how to do it

[Ice Tea]

I've still yet to need more than 4 ports. :)

There is a link in the above article of how to use an old router instead of a switch for adding extra ports aswell.

[wonderlust]

Got 6 cables connected to my Gigabit switch, 4 for my PCs, one to the router and one spare for "customers" PCs

[Pancake]

If you put a cable from the router to the switch and then from the switch to the router would the internet blow up?

[Ice Tea]

If you put a cable from the router to the switch and then from the switch to the router would the internet blow up?

LOL :lol:



Got 6 cables connected to my Gigabit switch, 4 for my PCs, one to the router and one spare for "customers" PCs

How long are you finding the patch cable is lasting that you pull out of "customers" PCs before you have to replace it. ?


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[Smifis]

If you put a cable from the router to the switch and then from the switch to the router would the internet blow up?
I did this, it doubled my internet speed. You Jelly?

[Pancake]

I did this, it doubled my internet speed. You Jelly?

You jelly?

http://www.trollscientist.com/image/111-increase-download-speed-troll-physics.png

[Pullen]

You jelly?

http://www.trollscientist.com/image/111-increase-download-speed-troll-physics.png

That's clearly wrong, to get faster download speeds you have to have your Ethernet lead going down vertically to your computer, gravity pulls the 1's and 0's down faster :D. :weeee

[Pancake]

I have my hard drives tipped over to get the data to them faster too!

[Mr. Strawberry]

so
what is a router? :D lol

[Smifis]

It's the magical portal between the interwebs and my screen

[Terbinator]

That's clearly wrong, to get faster download speeds you have to have your Ethernet lead going down vertically to your computer, gravity pulls the 1's and 0's down faster :D. :weeee

On the contrary - just download the 1's instead so you have 'lossless' programs which use up less space/take less time to download :D

[Spaceboy]

On the contrary - just download the 1's instead so you have 'lossless' programs which use up less space/take less time to download :D

Yeah but all those 1's make my hard drives heavier and so they spin slower :( :p