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Nighthawk Connection Options
I am considering purchasing a Nighthawk R7900P. My Spectrum 1G cable modem is upstairs in a small loft and I have a 16 port Netgear Gigabit switch beside the cable modem with ethernet feeds to most...
NSSB wrote:
Almost all of our internet connections are initiated from the first floor of the house. What I would like to do is connect the cable modem to the Gigabit switch and then locate the R7900P on the first floor and connnect to one of the ethernet feeds on the first floor.
A more normal, arrangement, and one that I use, is to go:
> modem > router > switch
In that way the router gets to manage the traffic through the ports on the switch.
NSSB wrote:
Almost all of our internet connections are initiated from the first floor of the house. What I would like to do is connect the cable modem to the Gigabit switch and then locate the R7900P on the first floor and connnect to one of the ethernet feeds on the first floor.
A more normal, arrangement, and one that I use, is to go:
> modem > router > switch
In that way the router gets to manage the traffic through the ports on the switch.
> A more normal, arrangement, [...]
> [...] the router gets to manage the traffic [...]
It's not a question of "more normal" or "manage the traffic"; it's a
question of works or not.
> You need to connect the (really-a-)modem to the router WAN/Internet
> port, and the network switch to a router LAN port. [...]
Still true.