No. Not the uplink port but rather any one of those 3 ports.
So you will have 2 devices directly on the apple router. 1 port from
the router to the switch and 1 device to the switch giving you 6 more
open ports on the router.
I say put everything on the switch and just a cable from the switch to
the apple router.
Performance should be a bit better since they are all on the single
switch fabric.
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On Dec 20, 2009, at 8:56 PM, Brian Weeden <brian.wee...@gmail.com>
wrote:
I'm a bit sleep deprived this morning and wanted to make sure I'm
clear on
something which is probably a "duh" question.
I have more than 3 ethernet devices in my home theater rack and
right now my
router is an Airport Extreme which only has 3 ethernet ports. I
can just
add something like an 8-port Gigabit ethernet swtich, put the router
on the
uplink port, and presto, I'm all good, right? Or am I missing
something
stupid?
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