Re: Router or switch? Please advise

If you're talking about using a second NAT router on the cart so that the computers on the cart are separated from the rest of the network in the building but still giving Internet access, it does work; I've set this up in a couple locations in the last couple years. The Wan port plugs into the building's LAN with a straight-through (non crossover) cable and the LAN ports on the router connect to the computers on the cart. This does give you Internet access when the router is configured to work on the building LAN but the computers in the building can't access those on the cart without additional configuration. It's a minimal level of security though, only enough to keep basic computer users from getting around it.

Airman Thunderbird wrote:
If the house jack is plugged to the WAN jack on a router, wouldn't that work and give you the NAT protection of the router?

Rod Carty wrote:
G.I.O. wrote:
So then is it best to use only a single computer connected to the "house" jack and
simply move the files that need to the FTP'ed over to the machine?

Is this case, is there any way to have my two computers networked to each other or
would I need
to simply move a hard drive cable (say an external USB type) to move the data?

Thanks!

Connect your two computers to ports on a small switch you put on the cart with them. Share files, printers, etc as you wish between them. Use a crossover cable from your switch to a house jack to connect your computers to the building network. You may find your computers will find a DHCP server on the house network which will give them IP addresses automatically, if not you will have to manually configure them with addresses assigned to you at that location by the network admin person.



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