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Ok sorry if this is the most basic question in the world but for years I have needed more ethernet ports in my room and my whole house is wired with 1 ethernet port in each room, I also wanted to be able to plug into the room ethernet port with another router to get more plugins and that wasn't possibe I don't think. So can you plug a switch into this and have more ports with just as much speed?
the tricky part is to understand how networking works... without that: all black magic. – akira – 2010-03-18T14:56:13.997
thats is great I wish I knew this about 8 years ago =) by any chance would each line you run from a switch have a seperate IP or I wuld imgaine they are all the same IP? – JasonDavis – 2010-01-04T03:19:08.773
6Every computer, whether connected to the switch or directly to the router, has its own IP address, provided by the router's DHCP/NAT function. That's on the "inside" of the LAN. From the outside world, it appears as just one address, assigned by the ISP. In other words, the switch simply "extends" the router, adding more ports -- nothing tricky to it. – Ken – 2010-01-04T03:28:48.650