Need more Ports!

I have a wireless WRT54GS Router but I need more ports in back to connect other rooms(wired). What is the device that I need?

Go out and buy a 4, 8 or 16 port switch. Plug it in and you have your extra ports.

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More port\lines that Ni-6501 device

Hi All,
I am using Ni-6501 device.
But i need more port\lines.
What kind of device can i use to have more than 24 port/lines IO???
Please help. Thanks brothers..
Regards,
Jessie

The 6509 has 96 DIO lines. Will that be enough for you? There is a USB, PCI, PCIe, and PXI version available.
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Need Information about More ports Fiber Optic Switches

Hiii Guys,
I need information about which Cisco Switch consist more Fiber Optic Ports. I knew one model Cisco (WS-C3750G-12S-E) Catalyst 3750G-12S-12 Gigabit Ethernet SFP ports. But we can using this we can make stacking up to 9 devices. Even though I need more than 12 ports in single device. Could any one help me out in this.

Hi Sayed,
Please take a look at the 3560E-12SD:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/switches/ps5718/ps7078/product_data_sheet0900aecd805bac22.html
[edit] Sorry, didn't catch from the first post reading that you've considered stacking (the 3560 doesn't support stacking).
For more than 12 fiber ports on a single device you'll need to go for the 4500 series with the appropriate modules:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps4324/prod_models_comparison.html
Cisco Catalyst 4500 and 4500-E Series Line Cards
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/modules/ps2710/ps5494/product_data_sheet0900aecd802109ea.html
WS-X4418-GB Cisco Catalyst 4500 Gigabit Ethernet Module, server switching 18 ports (GBIC).
BR,
Mohammed Mahmoud.

I have a current 2TB Time Capsule. I would like to add more ethernet ports for needed expansion. Will an Airport Extreme conflict with the Time Capsule for needed ethernet ports and will wireless from both units conflict?

I own a current 2TB Time Capsule and I need to expand my network system to include more ethernet (wired) ports. I am considering an Airport Extreme that would give me enough wired ports. Will the wireless capabilities of both units conflict with each other? I only need one wireless network. Thank you for any help.

While you could certainly add an AirPort Extreme to provide additional Ethernet ports, you could also save about $150 by purchasing an inexpensive switch, such as one of these:
http://www.amazon.com/D-Link-DGS-1005G-5-Port-Gigabit-Desktop/dp/B003X7TRWE/
http://www.amazon.com/TRENDnet-Unmanaged-GREENnet-Auto-Negotiation-Auto-MDIX/dp/ B001QUA6R0/
Consumer grade Ethernet switches typically come in five and eight port configurations. Just be aware that a five port switch only conveys the ability to add three additional devices. An eight port switch conveys the ability to add six additional devices.
An 8 port switch provides twice the capacity of a 5 port switch for considerably less than twice the cost. The price difference between the two is often only $10 or so.
I just checked, the 8 port version of the Trendnet switch above costs exactly $4 more.
An AirPort Extreme is a very flexible full featured wireless router, and would provide three additional LAN ports for wired devices. If all you need is a few more ports though, it's overkill.

Need More Ethernet Ports

I have an 500gb APTC and in need of more Ethernet ports for my small home office. I considered picking up a new switch, but first wondering if digging out from the mothballs, a "Linksys BEFSR41 EtherFast Cable/DSL Router with 4-Port 10/100 Switch" would do the trick. ?? I have 3 Mac's in my office that are hard wired along with an Ooma Telo that also needs a port.To add on top of this I also have Zyxel Powerlines throughout my house, the main one is is my office also where the cable comes in.
Taking all this into account and assuming the Linky would do what would be the best order to set this up?
Would the ceiling of "10/100" (not "10/1000") on the Linky be a concern for our newer Macs?
Thanks for any help or recommendations.

Thanks Bob, as cheep as they are I'll just pick up a new switch for the speed.
As far as the power line's I have these along with these. They're the same, yet one type allows passthrough and the other does not. I'll admit that I didn't thoroughly research these, but see that they're rated as "Gigabit" and I am running cat6 if it matters.
My network goes like this:
Cable comes into the house then to---> Surfboard Modem (SB6121) ---> Ooma Telo ---> APTC ---> Powerline.
The APTC has two (not three as mentioned earlier, one's WiFi) office computers hardwired to it, A Mac Mini and an iMac. The other APTC ports go to the Powerline and the Ooma Telo as mentioned above. If it matters in my family room I then have a ZYXEL Powerline PLA225 which is basically the same as the others, but has 4 ports. Two of those are used by an Xbox One and a Roku 2. Then upstairs in the master I have two Powerlines connected to an ATV and a Roku 3. Then lastly I have two kids rooms with the same Powerline's in them and Mac Mini's connected to them. Other computers and printers run on WiFi.
Just as a note I checked Network Utility and Link Speed is 1Gbit/s. The only reason I mention this is the fact that my download speeds have been terrible for a couple months and not sure why. I've changed nothing in that period. The reason that I need the additional ports is so that the Ooma Telo isn't in the middle of my configuration, but instead after the APTC somewhere. I have suspicions that the Ooma is the culprit, but just guessing.
In case you're not familiar with the Ooma Telo it's basically a VOIP box. The back looks like this. The two ethernet ports are "Home Network" and "To Internet".
Other suggestions?

Need more than 4 port router

Hello,
I need to connect more than 4 computers/game systems to the router, how do I go about doing this? Do I need a router with more ports or is there another way? Thanks
Solved!
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Could you guide me as to how to add this switch?
One of the ways of doing that, is having a second router and following...
portforward.com -> forum -› Knowledge Base -› Using a Second router as a Switch/Hub/WAP
http://forum.portforward.com/YaBB.cgi?num=1133918703
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How do I add more ports to my new Airport Extreme?

How do I add more ports to my new Airport Extreme? What do I need to buy?

Thinking to leave as is for now- one 2013 extreme.
That would certainly keep things a lot simpler.
Does it seem right that using speed test I'm getting similar speeds, no matter if I'm connected via wi-fi, or Ethernet?
A very good sign assuming those speeds are reasonably close to the your plan offered by your ISP. The Extreme itself is capable of much faster speeds than your ISP can ever hope to provide.
I'm thinking that all the speed in the world is not going to change Time Warner Cable, the provider for earthlink cable
Not sure what you mean here. Time Warner provides various plans, some up to 50 Mbps. I get 60+ consistently with this plan. I had a 30 Mpbs plan before that consistently delivered about 35-36 Mbps.
The math is simple. If you download a lot of files from the Internet, a 50 Mbps connection is going to take half as long to download a file as a 25 Mbps connection, for example.
One word of caution though....if you try a higher speed plan...plan to stay, as you will never go back to slower speeds once you have sampled higher speeds. Comcast now owns Time Warner by the way. I don't know whether that will be a good thing or a bad thing.

Need more space! Is external hard drive an option??

New to atv. Bought 40g model. Now going on vacation and need more space for more stuff. Can external hard drive be hooked up via USB and accessed through atv??

Can external hard drive be hooked up via USB and accessed through atv?
Not without voiding the warranty. No publicly available device is officially supported by that USB port.
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More ports to forward

I have a linksys WRT54GS wireless router which is working splendidly. However I play a *lot* of video games and I like to host games when playing all of these games. So, naturally, I have to forward a couple ports because not everything works happily together when hosting. I have no problems with that, I got my computer on a static IP address and all of the games I've set my router up for work just fine.
Problem is there simply aren't enough places for me to specify all the ports I want to forward. Obviously I don't want to include ports I don't need forwarded so I don't want to skip over ones I don't need. But 10 slots isn't enough... Battlefield Vietnam takes up 7 on its own. Is there any way to include more ports I want to forward?

Man, oh man, I could use more than 10 port forwarding lines! Would Linksys possibly consider increasing this to 20 in a subsequent firmware upgrade? 20 would probably be the most I would ever need.
I'm not comfortable using 3rd-party firmware upgrades on my router...
Thanks a lot for your consideration.
Dan

Have 2 usb need more then 4

hi.is it possible to connect usb to fire wire?im a dj and i need more then 2 usb ports.cant figure out whats the best to work with latency . oll my music devises are usb bus .pleas help????

I've no experience of the Lindy so can't say, I recommended the Belkin as I've used two for some years. Provided it's USB 2.0 compatible and has a power supply it should be OK.

Need more Airport inputs. Use an old router?

Several months ago I replaced my NetGear WGT624 v2 wireless router with the Airport Extreme and added an Airport Express for bringing in my printer for both the Mac and Vista PC to use.
Everything works fine except I have more Macs and PCs than ports on the Airport. Two are connected with wireess but I need one more port to connect a sever used for back up.
I believe I can use the NetGear router by turning off the NetGear wireless radio portion and then connecting it "somehow" to one input port on the Extreme. Then the 4 input ports on the NetGear become available.
The help I need is how should I connect the NetGear to the Extreme? NetGear WAN out to one of the Extreme inputs?
If not, what is the proper way to do it?
Thanks!

The help I need is how should I connect the NetGear to the Extreme? NetGear WAN out to one of the Extreme inputs?
I believe you would have at least two options:
1) AirPort Extreme \[LAN port] > Ethernet > \[LAN port] Netgear
2) AirPort Extreme \[LAN port] > Ethernet > \[WAN port] Netgear. With this option you will need to disable the Netgear's NAT & DHCP functions.

So I just learned about needing more drives....

I thought I was well off. Turns out after time on this forum, I am a newbie again..... ah, what a feeling.
I have one hard drive. It's a 1TB and called HITACHI HDT721010SLA360 ... whatever the heck that means. Anyway... what kind of hard drives can or should I buy? Should I get the same ones? I hear you should have the same ones all across. If so, what sizes? I am editing a movie I made for fun and it is about 30 min long and editing is slow. It is fast to edit when i have only like 5 min of timeline footage. But now the project is up to like 20 min and everything runs slow....
So any suggestions guys? What is compatible with my PC and should be upgraded? I know I need more hard drives. I have also just purchased a second monitor so I can have one to view my video and one to edit the timeline. I hope this was a wise choice... it only seems logical and I have used it just now and it seems easier to edit without having to resize workspaces constantly.
And if I need a new computer all together, let me know... I would rather not, however. If I must, I would consider some company who specializes in video editing builds, which I've read on this forum there is one called ADK who makes these systems.
YOU ALL ROCK! This is a great community and hobby to be apart of... although for some it's their job(and I wish to mine in the future as well)
Thanks to NEWEGG for keeeping so much order history, I found out all the specs of my computer in no time! Here it the list directly from when I bought it in 2009(I have upgraded to WIN 7 now by the way) :
Brand
iBUYPOWER
Model
Gamer Supreme 928i
Type
Gaming
Processor
Intel Core i7 920(2.66GHz)
Processor Main Features
64 bit Quad-Core Processor
Memory
6GB DDR3 1333
Hard Drive
1TB SATAII
Optical Drive 1
22X DL DVD+/-RW Drive
Graphics
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 1GB Video Card
Audio
Realtek chipset
Ethernet
10/100/1000Mbps
Power Supply
800W
Keyboard
iBUYPOWER USB Deluxe Keyboard
Mouse
iBUYPOWER USB Mouse
Operating System
Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit
Free MS Windows 7 Upgrade
Special Features
PSI SILVER ARMORX Gaming Case + Blue color lighting
Motherboard
Chipset
Intel X58
CPU
CPU Type
Intel Core i7
Installed Qty
1
CPU Speed
920(2.66GHz)
L2 Cache Per CPU
4 x 256KB
L3 Cache Per CPU
8MB
CPU Socket Type
LGA 1366
CPU Main Features
64 bit Quad-Core Processor
Graphics
GPU/VPU Type
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285
Graphics Interface
PCI Express 2.0 x16
Memory
Memory Capacity
6GB DDR3
Memory Speed
DDR3 1333
Memory Spec
2GB x 3
Memory Slot (Total)
6
Memory Slot (Available)
3
Maximum Memory Supported
24GB
Hard Drive
HDD Capacity
1TB
HDD Interface
SATA II
Optical Drive
Optical Drive Type
DVD±RW
Optical Drive Spec
22X DL DVD+/-RW Drive
Audio
Audio Chipset
Integrated
Communications
LAN Chipset
Integrated
LAN Speed
10/100/1000Mbps
Front Panel Ports
Front USB
2
Front eSATA
1 x e-SATA (based on motherboard availability)
Front Audio Ports
2
Back Panel Ports
PS/2
2
Video Ports
2 DVI
TV Out
1
Rear USB
6
Rear IEEE 1394
1
eSATA
1
RJ45
1 port
Rear Audio Ports
6 ports
S/P DIF
1 x Optical S/PDIF output
1 x Coaxial S/PDIF output
Expansion
PCI Slots (Available/Total)
3 x PCI-Express x16
1 x PCI-Express x1
2 x PCI
Physical Spec
Dimensions
17.4" x 17" x 7.9"
Weight
36 lbs

So I got my 24 gig of ram and 2 extra drives. Everything is installed and registered in Windows 7 64bit.
An important note to add to anyone considering an upgrade, seeing that I had some troubles with all of it:
First, Windows 7 Professional or Ultimate(64 bit editions, of course) is the only ones capable of running any more than 16gb of ram. I had to pay an extra $90 to upgrade my Win 7. That is stupid, Microsoft!
Second, everything was recognizd except for one hard drive. I had many theories such as, my mobo only supports 3 sata devices at once, my psu can't output enough power, or bios has some settings I need to enable. Turns out, after HOURS of taking this cable from this place and trying it in this place and all this garb, I found that one of the manufacturers SATA cables were bad! hardly noticable, but when i peeled back some of the covering on the wires, I see the wires are not fitly joint.
Third, a big computer case would be HIGHLY reccomended. In my case(no pun intended), the drives barely made the fit! Had heck of a time doing that. Especially with all the wires crammed everywhere.
So anyhow, I'm here transferring my media(video/audio files of my projects and other recordings I often re-use) to my second drive as Harm reccomended in his general hard disk guide. The only thing I am confused about, harm, is that you say to do Exports to a third drive. Are you referring to when I literally export my project? This would only make exporting faster and not the actual workflow, correct?
Let me know if you can. And as you know, I will probably have a few more other questions after this about the setup while going through Premiere. For now I'm just transferring media(125 gigs).
Thanks!
MrD

More Port Forwarding Options

I have a WRT300N.
I have used up all the single port forwarding options.
I have used up all the port range forwarding options.
What is left, i still need more options.
Is there a way to expand the amount of port forwarding options?

Wich version of the 300N? DD-WRT firmware is supported on V1 with V2 support as a work-in-progress. The firmware allows a much larger number of port forwarding entries to be configured.
Tomato 1.25vpn3.4 (SgtPepperKSU MOD) on a Buffalo WHR-HP-G54
D-Link DSM-320 (Wired)
Wii (Wireless) - PS3 (Wired), PSP (Wireless) - XBox360 (Wired)
SonyBDP-S360 (Wired)
Linksys NSLU2 Firmware Unslung 6.10 Beta unslung to a 2Gb thumb, w/1 Maxtor OneTouch III 200Gb
IOmega StorCenter ix2 1TB NAS
Linksys WVC54G w/FW V2.12EU
and assorted wired and wireless PCs and laptops

How Open More Ports into Mapping section...

Hi all..!
In the Mapping section it is only possible to open/access a certain number of ports... How can I open more ports or all if I wanted to?
Thanks for help...

If you want to map more than twenty ports, you need to use the Base Station's "default host" or "DMZ" feature. It is designed to forward inbound traffic on ALL ports to the private IP address of one computer on your LAN.
See also the article How do I use port mapping?

I just purchased the new iMac. Need more firewire connections

24-inch, 2.8Ghz 2GB Ram. It's a great computer. Only thing is I need more firewire ports for hard drive, scanner and M-audio interface. We can't plug them in all at once. Any solutions out there? I wasn't impressed with the Apple Store's Belkin Firewire Hub. I could use an extra port for my ipod too.
What is the best solution?
Message was edited by: Maureen W.

Do any of your devices have multiple firewire ports so that you can daisy chain them? My external hard drive has two ports and happily works in this fashion allowing additional devices on the chain. I have not noticed any difference in speed.

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