Small Office Network Question

[Kent Halac]

Here's the question, can I buy a Linksys 4 port router and then attached a 5 port 10/100 network hub to the router, then attach the 5 computers to the hub?

Yes.

I would recommend a switch over a hub. Also, if all five computers are
hanging off one port on a 4 port router, then they will all share 100 Mbps
together. If you put three machines off of three of the Linksys ports,
then they have 100 Mbps each, and the other two machines could share the
fourth port.

Kent

[John]

On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 18:15:26 GMT, Kent Halac <kentman@writeme.com>
wrote "Re: Small Office Network Question":
I would recommend a switch over a hub. Also, if all five computers arehanging off one port on a 4 port router, then they will all share 100 Mbpstogether. If you put three machines off of three of the Linksys ports,then they have 100 Mbps each, and the other two machines could share thefourth port.

I just wanted to thank everyone for their input. I installed the
Linksys router with a Linksys switch and everything works perfectly.
It took me 15 minutes to get everything up and running (5 minutes
talking to our T-1 provider to get the proper settings and 10 minutes
to setup.) Thanks again!