Adding more clients than 4

How can I add more clients to the wireless network when
there are only 4 ports?

get a switch like the MN-150 and uplink it to one of the ports

Ron wrote:
> How can I add more clients to the wireless network when
> there are only 4 ports?


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Ron wrote:
> How can I add more clients to the wireless network when
> there are only 4 ports?

Wireless clients need no ports -- you can connect as many as you want (
actually 252 -- the number of wired clients as a class C address space with
only 255 possible entries is used -- but I suspect that is way more than any
current home network will have).

There are only 4 wired ports -- to have more wired computers the easiest way
is probably to use a hub.


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I thought the limit for a Class C IP address was 254 devices, & since
the router only takes one IP address 253 IP address using devices.

Brian Sullivan MVP wrote:
> Ron wrote:
>
>>How can I add more clients to the wireless network when
>>there are only 4 ports?
>
>
> Wireless clients need no ports -- you can connect as many as you want (
> actually 252 -- the number of wired clients as a class C address space with
> only 255 possible entries is used -- but I suspect that is way more than any
> current home network will have).
>
> There are only 4 wired ports -- to have more wired computers the easiest way
> is probably to use a hub.
>
>

joker wrote:
> I thought the limit for a Class C IP address was 254 devices, & since
> the router only takes one IP address 253 IP address using devices.


Yes correct -- 0,1( for the router) and 255 not used out of 256 - leaving
253 -- was thinking only 255 available -- my mistake.

Doesn't affect materially the answer though.


>
> Brian Sullivan MVP wrote:
>> Ron wrote:
>>
>>> How can I add more clients to the wireless network when
>>> there are only 4 ports?
>>
>>
>> Wireless clients need no ports -- you can connect as many as you
>> want ( actually 252 -- the number of wired clients as a class C
>> address space with only 255 possible entries is used -- but I
>> suspect that is way more than any current home network will have).
>>
>> There are only 4 wired ports -- to have more wired computers the
>> easiest way is probably to use a hub.

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