TSGL: chaining routers

[William Pike]

Depending on the brand of router, yes.

Most routers are both a router (DHCP gateway to connect multiple computers
to the internet) and a network hub. To use the hub part without the DHCP
part you simply take the second router and disable DHCP, then you connect
the WAN port of the second (non-DHCP) device into the #1 port on the router
that is acting as a DHCP server...it will then act as an expansion hub
giving you the additional ports...

There is a limit on how many of these you can hook up. But I've successfully
hooked up 4 hubs to a router (using all 4 ports on the back of the router
but ending up with 16 useable ports.

The cheapest way to go is to get a hub, and not a router, and install
it..why pay an extra $50 for the router functions that you don't need? And
you can get hubs with more useable ports than a router would have..


William Pike
whpike at cox.net
 whpike at gmail.com

-----Original Message-----
From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On
Behalf Of Will Seehorn
Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2007 10:11 PM
To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List
Subject: TSGL: chaining routers

is it possible to chain routers?

I have a router that doesn't have enough ports. Can I connect it to another
router (the way you can chain USB hubs)?

Will


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