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I presently have a linksys 300N wireless router and will need to add a multitude of wired connections?

Hi, I presently have a home network set up with my Linksys 300N acting as the router for all my wired and wireless connections. I am doing major construction on my house and want to run wired cat5 or 6 to each bedroom and to my home theatre setup and to all my kids game consoles. This means I will need many wired networked connections (I will guess about 15-20) along with keeping the wireless ability for my laptop, etc. What type of unit will I need to accomplish this and how does it hook up to my existing router please? My exisiting router is directly hooked up to my cable modem from Cablevision. Thank you in advance, John

Public Comments

1. Sounds like you need a 30 or so port normal router switch. Once you have all your hard lines connected to that router, hook up your wireless router to that hard line router. This way you can have hard lines and wireless connections. I have done that alot at work.
2. a 24 port hub / switch. all your systems will plug into that, then the uplink on that will plug in to your router
3. ok. you need to buy a switch, you can get them on auction sites for rather cheap. can i suggest a netgear 24 port? they dont require any real setup. your router goes to your switch and switch to all your devices.
4. Keep your existing router and modem first off. All you need to purchase is a 24 port switch http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833124043 A crude diagram of how its hooked up would be something like this: Modem -> Router -> Switch -> Theator / Game Consols / Computers Note: You can still use the 4 ports on your router as well giving you a max of 28 ports.
5. I have 2 network switches chained off my router, 8 ports each. This gives me 13 available ports in addition to 3 that left on the router and wireless connection. You can get a bigger switch if you need more.
6. Simply buy a 16 port switch (or whatever number you need) and hook it up directly into one of the wired ports on the back. Unless you have some odd ball wireless router that has no wired ports on the back (not WAN!). Tip: don't buy a HUB, by a SWITCH (or a SWITCHED HUB).