[Attention Surplus Disorder]

If it’s a SWITCH it ain’t gonna work. Period.

Obviously, one would never hear about good-working router issues...they just do what they are supposed to do. But, I bot a brand-new Linksys BEFSR41 at a church sale for $4! Sealed in plastic-wrap! It worked for about a day or two, then I plugged my laptop into it and it just stopped. I did every variation of power-down, reset, reboot, etc etc I could think of, before bypassing said router and visiting several user groups. There were oodles of comments from folks (clearly much more skilled than I am) who could not get the thing to work. Many appeared to have had good luck with older ones, then theirs crapped out, then they bot a new one of the same type and couldn’t get it to work. That’s all I can tell you.

[ThePythonicCow]

If it’s a SWITCH it ain’t gonna work. Period.

Well, it could work, if the cable modem will issue multiple DHCP addresses. I just setup one that way myself yesterday, for a relative a thousand miles away. They couldn't get the fancy router I had recommended to them working (just like this current thread) so I had them replace that router with a simple four port switch. It works fine.

My latest guess -- the link from the switch to the cable modem is not working, due to the wrong kind of ethernet cable. Plugging that cable into a different port on the switch might help.

But I still need to figure out what kind (model number) of switch she has. I'm not having much luck there yet.

[TheMom]

If it’s a SWITCH it ain’t gonna work. Period.

Maybe that is why it cost $25.00! Tomorrow I will take the switch back & replace it with a router. We have had a Linksys router for eight years and have never had a problem.