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Help! Adding switch to router, Win XP,Win ME

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anandfan

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My son is coming from college for the summer, but my 4-port router is maxed out. I have a spare 5 port switch with uplink port that I want to add to the router. I'd like all computers connected to either the router or switch to be in the same workgroup (seems the easiest?) with the same address 192.168.123.*. Any suggestions, online tutorials, etc to get me up to a quick start? (He will be home Friday ---WSU.)

FWIW, router is SMC 7004 , switch is Linksys EZXs55W (ver 2.0). DHCP is currently enabled.

TIA
 
Adding the switch is just a matter of plugging the Switch to a regular port on the Router. (No change in Router's setting is needed).

Regular port to regular port use Crossover CAT5e. Regular port to uplink straight CAT5.

Just in case: AnandTech - FAQ. CAT5 Straight, Crossover. What is CAT5, which one should I Use?

When your son brinks his computer log to the Network Properties in the Control Panel of the Windows 98 interface. Make sure that the TCP/IP (in TCP/IP properties) is on obtain IP auto, and change the Group name to your home group. Set the Sharing in his computer and that is all to it.

Setup of Win98 Network (in case you need it) here:

FS Guide to Windows Networking.

Win98 Sharing:

AanadTech - FAQ. Networking and sharing between computers.


P.S. Thanks for GraphTablet. Very useful.
 
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