Re: Router or switch? Please advise

G.I.O. wrote:
Phillip:

Not sure I understand. If I was to plug into, say, a Cat5 jack in a hotel
meeting room or college
classroom somewhere just what would I need to know or do? My assumption is you
just plug in as if you were giving a lecture. Do I need to have more
information before I can access their network and, ultimately, the internet?

Phillip Windell wrote:

Configure the machines with addresses that are already compatible with the
in house LAN.
Use a switch.

If you connect a switch port on your switch to a switch port on the building network you either need a crossover cable to do it with or a switch that will autosense or has an uplink switch on it. A switch or hub's port is designed to have a computer plugged into it.

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