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Silly Newbie Question

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Muchacho

Junior Member
I have an old linksys wireless router (BEFW11S4) that works fine, but I need to increase the number of wired connections in my home network and would like to speed it up a bit. Would it be best to just get a switch? I am planning on connecting it to the router (which is connected to the internet) and then connecting all of my wired connections to the switch. Is there a better way of doing this?

Also, seeing as my router is 10/100 only, if I got a 10/100/1000 switch, would the wired connections on the switch operate at gigabit speeds or would they be bottlenecked by the slow router? Would there be any trouble sharing files from wireless connections with the wired connections on the switch?

Thanks for your help, Mike
 
You can add a switch all it takes is to plug it into one of the Router's LAN port.

You can get a Giga switch. Computers with Giga Network card would work at Giga level when plugged to this switch.
 
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