"George Hester" <hesterloli@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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"kony" <spam@spam.com> wrote in message news:v2uaf1t7jrvdbjcr7ld0a7noo01hopqinl@4ax.com...
> On Sat, 06 Aug 2005 21:51:26 GMT, "George Hester"
> <hesterloli@hotmail.com> wrote:

>
>> A rough approximation of wireless performance would be you'd
>> get performance in the 15-25Mbps range with
>> supposed-54/108Mbps 802.11g, or about 3/5ths of that with
>> 802.11b. The disparty is the difference between theoretical
>> transfer and real-world rates after overhead, interference,
>> TCPIP and wifi overhead and other misc issues are factored
>> in.

>OK what is a switch and how would it attach to the router?
>Does it go in one of the port openings which then has more
>port openings which the machines then hook into? The
>trouble is each port opening has an IP address.

No, each *device* (ie. computer) has an IP address.

>Would a switch having more that one port have trouble with
>IP address coming out of one port on the router?

Nope, just continue to allocate IP addresses to each additional
machine.