Belkin Router But Need More Wired Connections

defib

Hi,

Hope you can help, in our office we have a Belkin N1 Vision Wireless Router. But it only has four LAN ports for wired connection.

What is the best way of getting more wired connections, we need 8 in total?

Any help?

Alun

defib wrote: »

Hi,

Hope you can help, in our office we have a Belkin N1 Vision Wireless Router. But it only has four LAN ports for wired connection.

What is the best way of getting more wired connections, we need 8 in total?

Any help?

Buy a small switch and connect that to one of the LAN ports on the router. You may (although it will probably work without) need a crossover cable to connect the two. Try it with an ordinary cable first.

EDIT: get a 16 port switch for good measure, then you'll have a bit of expansion capability too. Say something from Netgear, D-Link or Linksys, it doesn't really matter.

defib

Alun wrote: »

Buy a small switch and connect that to one of the LAN ports on the router. You may (although it will probably work without) need a crossover cable to connect the two. Try it with an ordinary cable first.

EDIT: get a 16 port switch for good measure, then you'll have a bit of expansion capability too. Say something from Netgear, D-Link or Linksys, it doesn't really matter.

Thanks, what is a crossover cable?

Any links to the type of switch/places to buy?

In the office we have 20Mb with NTL or whatever the new name is and we do get 19plus download after using speedtest.net

Alun

defib wrote: »

Thanks, what is a crossover cable?

It's a network cable where the transmit and receive wires are crossed over, sometimes needed when connecting one networking device to another, rather than connecting a PC to that device instead. Nowadays though most switches support what they call Auto-MDIX (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-MDIX) so there's usually no need to use a special cable.

Any links to the type of switch/places to buy?

Online you could try elara.ie or komplett.ie (my preference goes to Elara, great helpful people to deal with).

You could look at something like these ...

http://www.elara.ie/products/detailsfull.asp?productcode=MME0710645
http://www.elara.ie/products/detailsfull.asp?productcode=MMEK340245
http://www.elara.ie/products/detailsfull.asp?productcode=MME5840924

defib

thanks