What's the best way to connect ~10PC's via ethernet in a house?
Right now I have a wireless router with 4 ethernet ports so I plug 4 PC's into the ports and use wireless for my sister's computer but wireless is not great for reliability. I could perhaps get a 5-port router but I want to have many available for when I fix people's computers and I don't think I can get a 10-20 port router. Can I just hook up a router port to a 16-port ethernet switch and plug all of the computers into that switch? Will each computer have its own local address (like 192.168.0.1XX like on a router) and still have internet access? Would this system be slow even if only a few PC's at a time are on the internet? Is there a better way you'd suggest?
Thanks,
Jo
Right now I have a wireless router with 4 ethernet ports so I plug 4 PC's into the ports and use wireless for my sister's computer but wireless is not great for reliability. I could perhaps get a 5-port router but I want to have many available for when I fix people's computers and I don't think I can get a 10-20 port router. Can I just hook up a router port to a 16-port ethernet switch and plug all of the computers into that switch? Will each computer have its own local address (like 192.168.0.1XX like on a router) and still have internet access? Would this system be slow even if only a few PC's at a time are on the internet? Is there a better way you'd suggest?
Thanks,
Jo