Is there a simple ethernet splitter?

[Bryan O'Neal]

If your 2-Wier unit is acting as a router and handling DHCP and natting,
then you just need a simply hub (which are hard to find) or a switch.
Here is the (overly simplified) difference, a hub takes information on
one port and replicates it to all ports, a switch knows which port
should get the information and sends it to only that port.  I would
think you should be able to get away with something for under $30.  Then
you take said device and plug it into the one port on your router that
your computer is plug into and plug the other devices into said cheep
device as well.  Turn everything on in order and surf away.

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of
Josef Lowder
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 11:18 PM
To: plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Subject: Is there a simple ethernet splitter? 

.
On my 2-Wire modem/router, there is a single ethernet 
port that I have my main computer plugged into, and I 
have two other computers in our home that connect via 
wireless cards.  Now, I've just added another computer 
that I'd like to connect via the ethernet port, if 
possible. 

Is there such a thing as a simple "splitter" that would 
allow me to plug in two computers into a single ethernet 
port on my 2-Wire modem/router? 


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