I Need New Equipment // But What?

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mciaglia

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I have a home network with Comcast Cable Internet coming into a D-Link WBR-1310 4 port wireless router. Until recently, I had 4 desktops plugged directly into the router and would regularly use another 3 laptops wirelessly... so typically I would have ~7 computers connected simultaneously and everything would work fine.

However now I have purchased a D-Link DES 1024D 24-Port 10/100 switch and added 18 new desktops to my network.

Is this too many computers for my WBR-1310 router to handle?

The reason I ask is because all of the desktops can connect to the internet fine, but when I turn on my laptops they can connect to the wireless network but have "Limited or No Connectivity". They are not getting assigned an IP address.

In total, the network now has 22 desktop computers all plugged into the D-Link DES 1024D 24-Port 10/100 switch with one cable then going from the switch to the WBR-1310. They all work fine, they all get IP addresses, but then my laptops seem to have a hard time getting an IP assigned. One might work fine, but the other can't get an IP address. Then they intermittently switch from having a fine connection to having "Limited or No Connectivity".

Every computer on the network has DHCP enabled.

I unplugged 8 of the desktops from the D-Link DES 1024D 24-Port 10/100 switch and now everything is working fine.

So do I need a different router to be able to handle all of these computers?
Do I need an additional router?
Should I have gotten a managed switch instead of an unmanaged switch?
A hub?

I don't know a lot about networking equipment... so please advise as to what piece of equipment I need to be able to have these ~25 computers online simultaneously.

thank you.
 
so the switch is plugged in after the router? have you tried connecting the router to the switch? plug the interwebs into the switch, then have your router plug into the router. im not a networking wiz, but alot of the times these networking problems are hard to diagnose.
 
So the ethernet cable from the cable modem is plugged into the WAN port in the back of the router. Then another ethernet cable connects Port 1 in the back of the router to the first port in the 24 port switch.

Should I run the cables another way?
 
Have you done any troubleshooting? It worked prior, but have you taken the switch out of the equation to verify the wireless is still working? Test the wireless at that point to make sure it's not losing connectivity.

I didn't do any research on this, but I believe there are some limitations to using a small home router on network of 30 pc's.
 
mciaglia said:
So the ethernet cable from the cable modem is plugged into the WAN port in the back of the router. Then another ethernet cable connects Port 1 in the back of the router to the first port in the 24 port switch.

Should I run the cables another way?
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I would try going from Cable Modem->Switch->Router, see if it works for you that way.
 
So it doesn't surprise me that my small home router has these limitations, it cost $30 4 years ago... so it makes sense to me that I need to get a new one... but that is my question... what kind of a router should I get? Any recommendations?
 
Personaly I would recomend a "D-Link DIR-655". I have one for my home (9 macpro's and 2 iMacs *no joke*) its easy to set up, has a very long range and has a kick ass powerful radio that blasts through 3 floors of my house and still gives me 100% signal strength. highly recomended.
 
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