Cable Router with Switch

[Porkie]

Can anyone recommend a Cable router with an inbuilt switch. I have been looking at the Linksys ones, they have Routers with 4 or 8 port switches built in, but the question is, are they any good.

Any other suggestions ?

[KermitTheFrag]

dunno!

I'm going to go put a netgear one in for someone tonight so I'll post results on that one. It's going in back of NTL/motorola surfboard btw.

[Lightspeed]

I have a Linksys one with a 4 port switch and it works like a charm on my Cable connection!

[Mingtea]

kerm let us know how good that one is m8

im thinkin of the netgear one with inbuilt firewall but no switch as im gonna wire it into a 8port one.

[KermitTheFrag]

k - will do. prod us on IRC :)

The old git bought one for his place, so I've gotta work out how the hell to install it and set up a VPN between home and office (with speedtouch pro+static IP) tonight. should be amusing!

[Zenith]

Originally posted by Porkie
Can anyone recommend a Cable router with an inbuilt switch. I have been looking at the Linksys ones, they have Routers with 4 or 8 port switches built in, but the question is, are they any good.
I'm not trying to be pedantic, but a network technician would really tear into you for using router and switch interchangeably. They are two different devices that operate at different levels of the OSI networking model (go look it up on Google, I'm not explaining it here). That said, there are a few routers that combine a switch as well. What you're talking about is a multi-port broadband router.

[Porkie]

I wasn’t using the terms interchangeably. What I wanted, as I said, was a router that included a switch rather than a Hub or god knows what, I admit that I am not up to all the buzzwords that they keep inventing.


But I mean come on, straight from Linksys’ site.


The Linksys EtherFast® Cable/DSL Router with 4-Port Switch is the perfect option to connect multiple PCs to a high-speed Broadband Internet connection or to an Ethernet back-bone. Allowing up to 253 users, the built-in NAT technology acts as a firewall protecting your internal network.


Sounds like what I was saying. ;)

[MONK]

I always thought a cable modem was a bridge not a router!

I mean do they route, do they have any routing protocoles?

Or are they just a transparent bridge to the cable network?

Really they should just be working at Layers 1 and 2......

[Porkie]

No idea, i prefer to live in blissful ignorance. I have enough worries keeping up with software technology let alone hardware as well.

[Cabe]

its not that hard keeping up with both, you just cant have a social life at the same time........

and a cable modem is a bridge, as the box isn't assiged an IP address, and you have a subnet where you can see other people.

so my sig is now ACTUALLY correct :D

(albeit the wrong order but "Out the 100 Base-T port, past the Router, through the Firewall, off the Bridge..... Nothing but Net." just doesnt sound right)