More than 4 ports in a wireless gateway / router

I am looking for a wireless / wired router that has more than 4 ports
(anyware from 5-8 would be ideal). I plug my cable modem into the
Belkin gateway, and both linksys units, and 2 computers into the
Belkin. I KNOW I can us the uplink port, but I am having little luck
having my Belkin gateway, linksys wireless router, and linksys switch
to play together nicely. My old wireless is B only, and I want to
upgrade to G, and get rid of the rats nest of cables. Is there a
gateway out there for me??


Gene

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In <(E-Mail Removed) .com> on 10 Feb 2006
05:50:21 -0800, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:

>I am looking for a wireless / wired router that has more than 4 ports
>(anyware from 5-8 would be ideal). I plug my cable modem into the
>Belkin gateway, and both linksys units, and 2 computers into the
>Belkin. I KNOW I can us the uplink port, but I am having little luck
>having my Belkin gateway, linksys wireless router, and linksys switch
>to play together nicely. My old wireless is B only, and I want to
>upgrade to G, and get rid of the rats nest of cables. Is there a
>gateway out there for me??

Why not just cascade a cheap 4- or 5-port switch or hub?

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>I am looking for a wireless / wired router that has more than 4 ports
> (anyware from 5-8 would be ideal). I plug my cable modem into the
> Belkin gateway, and both linksys units, and 2 computers into the
> Belkin. I KNOW I can us the uplink port, but I am having little luck
> having my Belkin gateway, linksys wireless router, and linksys switch
> to play together nicely. My old wireless is B only, and I want to
> upgrade to G, and get rid of the rats nest of cables. Is there a
> gateway out there for me??
>
>
> Gene
>

On 10 Feb 2006 05:50:21 -0800, in alt.internet.wireless ,
(E-Mail Removed) wrote:

>I am looking for a wireless / wired router that has more than 4 ports
>(anyware from 5-8 would be ideal).

Don't bother - just buy an eight-port switch, and plug it into one of
the LAN ports on the router. Voila, eleven usable ports.

> I plug my cable modem into the
>Belkin gateway, and both linksys units, and 2 computers into the
>Belkin. I KNOW I can us the uplink port, but I am having little luck
>having my Belkin gateway, linksys wireless router, and linksys switch
>to play together nicely.

Very odd - I have a couple of noname switches (the 4-porter may be a
linksys, the 8-porter may be a 3com, I really can't be a*sed to lift
floorpanels to check), an old actiontec wireless router acting as an
AP in the garden, a couple of wired print servers and an SMC wireless
router acting as the gateway and main wireless AP for the house, and
it all works fine.
Mark McIntyre
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