Hello all,

Although I'm a software developer, I am not so familiar with
networking technologies, and I would like a sanity check on this
before I purchase anything:

In my living room now, I have cable internet coming into a Motorola
Surfboard cable modem, and out of that into a Linksys WRT54G wireless/
4 port router. All is fine. I want to keep the wireless on this level
of the house.

However, in the basement, the last owner installed a small hub with
ethernet going into 8 rooms (nice!). I want to purchase a new switch
(8 or 16 port), install it in the basement with all the ethernet lines
branching out from there.

Question 1: What would be an appropriate switch here? I like Linksys,
and the basement setup is a rack mount system. Not sure which model to
buy.

Question 2: Can I simply run an ethernet cable up from on of the ports
on this new switch to my WRT54G upstairs?

Thanks immensely!

Dean