quick question for you experts

[Ladies Man]

I've only done alittle bit of networking.. *just getting the 5 computers in my house networked and connected to the internet*.. and my friend just got an apartment give me this one to work out......

She's at a place where they have cable internet and a 4 port router hooked up. 4 computers are hooked up to this router and are already using the internet. She has a pc laptop and now she just got a powerbook. So now we have 5 computers and only a 4 port router. Well of course she wants both of them to be hooked up to the internet since she needs each one to do different things...

I said.. You need a new router that has more than 4 ports to do this. She claims that her teacher told her that she could hook up something so that both were running off the one line... I thought either she explained it wrong to him, or he's a an idiot....

Only way I could possibly see this happening is to get another ethernet card hooked up to one of the laptops, run crossover cable, and somehow connect them that way to the internet...

But what the heck do I know 🙂
Answers? or suggestions to this problem?

Thanks

 

[syyid]

Hey
How about getting a Wireless Bridge (or a wireless router instead 😉) and hooking that up to one port. That way your laptops dont need to be connected at all.

Routers -> Bridge -> wirelessly connect to 2 laptops 🙂
-> 3 computers
= 4 ports

 

[ktwebb]

Uplink a switch from a port on the router's LAN ports. You can daisy chain. You could go wireless as well, but you wouldn't want a bridge. You'd want an Access Point given your post. As long as you decide to stay wired just uplink a hub or swith to your existing LAN and be done with it. Kinda hard to tell from you post but I'd guess that's what the teacher was explaining to your friend

 

[Ladies Man]

Originally posted by: ktwebb
Uplink a switch from a port on the router's LAN ports. You can daisy chain. You could go wireless as well, but you wouldn't want a bridge. You'd want an Access Point given your post. As long as you decide to stay wired just uplink a hub or swith to your existing LAN and be done with it. Kinda hard to tell from you post but I'd guess that's what the teacher was explaining to your friend

so I could buy something like this... cheap best buy switch/hub Plug it into the wire that is already in her room going to the router... *i would plug it into the uplink port of the new switch?* And then she would plug her 2 computers into that like usual and it will work?

If so that'll be great...

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: Ladies Man

Originally posted by: ktwebb
Uplink a switch from a port on the router's LAN ports. You can daisy chain. You could go wireless as well, but you wouldn't want a bridge. You'd want an Access Point given your post. As long as you decide to stay wired just uplink a hub or swith to your existing LAN and be done with it. Kinda hard to tell from you post but I'd guess that's what the teacher was explaining to your friend

so I could buy something like this... cheap best buy switch/hub Plug it into the wire that is already in her room going to the router... *i would plug it into the uplink port of the new switch?* And then she would plug her 2 computers into that like usual and it will work?

If so that'll be great...

That would work just fine.

 

[Ladies Man]

Originally posted by: Astaroth33

Originally posted by: Ladies Man

Originally posted by: ktwebb
Uplink a switch from a port on the router's LAN ports. You can daisy chain. You could go wireless as well, but you wouldn't want a bridge. You'd want an Access Point given your post. As long as you decide to stay wired just uplink a hub or swith to your existing LAN and be done with it. Kinda hard to tell from you post but I'd guess that's what the teacher was explaining to your friend

so I could buy something like this... cheap best buy switch/hub Plug it into the wire that is already in her room going to the router... *i would plug it into the uplink port of the new switch?* And then she would plug her 2 computers into that like usual and it will work?

If so that'll be great...

That would work just fine.

Thanks for the help guys