Ok, i currently have an ADSL Router for the 3 PC's in the house. They are all plugged into the back of the router.

Today i received my BT Home hub thingy which only has 2 outputs for the hetwork cables. When ordering i told the guy at BT that i had 4 PC's that i wanted to connect to it and he said yeah thats fine so i need a switch or splitter. Do such things exist and what is their proper name?

cheers

Annoyed from Caterham

As you probably need to go out and buy something, probably a switch (hub), you could consider buying wifi cards instead as isnt the BT hub a wifi hub. That way youre not limited by whatever swicth you buy. Wifi will be slower transfer of data however

I've got one of these.

http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?Quicklinx=2J7T&SearchType=1&SearchTerms=5+port+switch&PageMode=3&SearchKey=All&SearchMode=All &NavigationKey=50010

Works great for me.

Cheers

Mark

Hi,

What you need is a switch or a hub (you might struggle to find a hub these days tho). Your current router might run as just a switch, but they tend to do other stuff as well (like DHCP), which might conflict with your home hub widget....

Anything in this category should do you fine...

http://www.dabs.com/ProductList.aspx?&NavigationKey=11176&NavigationKey=41770000&SearchType=1&CategorySelectedId=11176&SearchTerms =ethernet+switch&PageMode=3&SearchKey=All&SearchMode=All#Paging

You'll want one which can handle auto-crossover, so that it doesn't get confused when connected to your home hub, or you'll need a crossover cable instead of a normal patch lead.

HTH,


Vince

Jos

Really don't want to go wifi as it reduces the speed (as you say) so thats out. I'm on the phone to BT right now so i'll let you know what's what.

hang on............

Yep, i was lied to!!
Looks like i'll either have to get a splitter or keep the router i have.

They have just told me that i will still have the faster broadband service so i may just keep the old router plugged in for now.

A network switch would be about a tenner, eg this on ebay clicky
If you found one to pick up then even cheaper.

Why wouldn't you just keep your existing adsl router anyway??

This should do what you need

switch

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Why wouldn't you just keep your existing adsl router anyway??

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This would do it linky

Yep that would look nice on my desk and at £17,829.00 it's a steal!!

I might be missing something here but why can't you just plug the two together?? disconnect your old router from the wall and turn off dhcp if its on and it should just function as a switch - provided one of the two units has an 'uplink' port (otherwise you would just need a crossover cable which costs a few pounds from maplin) then as far as i can tell they should just work!

HTH

i did think of that and will look into it, cheers!