I am trying to connect my xfinity cisco wireless gateway router to a net gear gigabit switch. Devices connected to the switch

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I am trying to connect my Xfinity Cisco wireless gateway/router to a net gear 16 port gigabit Ethernet switch. When I do this, devices connected to the netgear switch either cannot connect to the internet or experience extremely slowed/delayed response. When I connect my latopt directly to one of the gateway ports and run speedtest, I have no problem. Download speed is 100mbps. Is there any set up I need to perform to connect a switch to the router to enable traffic through the switch?
 
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Is the Cisco or Netgear switches managed? If they are, they usually have an assigned IP address that could be creating conflicts.

Usually on a home network, the router is 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.0.1. Managed networking equipment should be assigned .2 - .9 (last octet of the IP), and then you setup servers with .10 - .19, printers at .20 - .29 and computers at .30+ (THIS IS FOR EXAMPLE ONLY). You will need to setup the IP addresses on the XFinity router by mac address.
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Is the Cisco or Netgear switches managed? If they are, they usually have an assigned IP address that could be creating conflicts.

Usually on a home network, the router is 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.0.1. Managed networking equipment should be assigned .2 - .9 (last octet of the IP), and then you setup servers with .10 - .19, printers at .20 - .29 and computers at .30+ (THIS IS FOR EXAMPLE ONLY). You will need to setup the IP addresses on the XFinity router by mac address.
 
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