On Sep 6, 10:30 am, DeanB <deanbrow...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Sep 6, 6:08 am, John Jones <jjetroit...@ameritech.net> wrote:
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> > On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 08:53:59 -0000, DeanB <deanbrow...@yahoo.com>
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> > >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.
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> > Doesn't really matter much. I needed to do something like this a few
> > months ago, and the only rack mount "consumer level" gear I could find
> > in local stores was Netgear. I thought it was overpriced, and ended up
> > getting a SynOptics switch from a company which I used to do business
> > with, that was surplus to their needs.
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> > >Question 2: Can I simply run an ethernet cable up from on of the ports
> > >on this new switch to my WRT54G upstairs?
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> > A better description would be running an Ethernet cable DOWN from a
> > LAN port on the router to the switch <grin>. There should be at least
> > one port on the switch that can either be Normal or Uplink. You want
> > to use it in Uplink mode. The "mode switch" may be manual or
> > automatic, depending on the sophistication of the particular switch
> > you get.
> > John Jones, Detroit
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> Thanks John, Alan.
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> Are you saying that only a router can connect directly to a modem's
> ethernet port, and a switch cannot do this?- Hide quoted text -
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I was considering this switch: SLM224P

http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satel...=6273522279B01

The reason being that I want to connect up cameras that can use PoE
(power over ethernet), and this seems to be the cheapest one that does
that.

Any comments before I slap down the $371.33?