2 routers, 1 adsl connection question

**Fondles** · 07-10-2010, 07:58 PM

Originally Posted by dirtydog

Originally Posted by Fondles

Alternatively purchase a wifi access point and connect to your existing router (you need a spare lan port) and through a cheapo wifi card in the machine downstairs.

I think there is my answer, I have wifi cards already, probably have a 5 meter lan cable spare, so just need the wifi access point to chuck out the window

If you wanted to test it first I have a spare wifi access point sitting here doing fuckall if you wanted to borrow it.

**baldrick** · 09-10-2010, 09:44 AM

Originally Posted by dirtydog

Naa the router is an old 4 line beast

so it is a switch or a hub - not a router

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

I have choice of going 108Mb everywhere or going the wired route, and haven't really made my mind up yet.

anytime it is possible it is always best to be wired ( or plasticed if you do fibre )

**Fondles** · 09-10-2010, 10:14 AM

Originally Posted by baldrick

so it is a switch or a hub - not a router

Did they not have 4 port routers back then ?

**lom** · 09-10-2010, 10:19 AM

Originally Posted by Fondles

Originally Posted by baldrick

so it is a switch or a hub - not a router

Did they not have 4 port routers back then ?

Sure there were routers with a 4-port lan switch built in but then it would have 5 ports in total.

**Fondles** · 09-10-2010, 10:21 AM

Originally Posted by lom

Originally Posted by Fondles

Originally Posted by baldrick

so it is a switch or a hub - not a router

Did they not have 4 port routers back then ?

Sure there were routers with a 4-port lan switch built in but then it would have 5 ports in total.

1 in 4 out = a 4 port router.

**dirtydog** · 09-10-2010, 10:27 AM

^Thats the one I'm using, I was pretty early on the list of adsl users and I didn't want their crappy router which would tie me in with them for a min 1 year contract, plus at the time I think I was using 3 pc's so their router wouldn't have been much good, anyway bought 20 meters of cable and run that, now she wants more electric points down there

Nostradamus · 10-10-2010, 12:43 PM

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Something I've been considering; what do you plug it all into?

I have a D-Link router which connects to the internet using the telephone line, it has 4 LAN ports which connect to the rest of the network. I run two gigabit D-Link switches; one eight port for the main TV and home theatre and another four port upstairs in the master bedroom for the stuff up there. The router will be replaced with a gigabit version in due course.

We are refurbishing the house so I thought I would stick all the cabling in the walls while they were doing the electric. I have wi-fi throughout the house also but wanted a hard line to stream HD content and browse other machines.

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