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I know just enough to be dangerous...Having said that here is my dilema.
I have a "wired home and have grown out of the 4 wired ports theat my SMC 2804WBRP-G Wireless Router Provides.
On my network I have:
3 Wired ReplayTVs (DVRs that have internet sharing capabilities)
1 WII Consol that coect wirelessly only
1 Wired Desktop
3 Wireless Laptops
With the above I have generally been fine with the 2804.
Storage has become an issue and I recently purchased an HP Media Vault 5140 (NAS) that I would like to incorporate into my home network.
I wired my house with Cat 6 when I remodeled ad will eventiually step up to a Gigabit network but for now am using "spare parts" from my office network and have "access" to a Netgear FS308 8 Port Switch.
My question is how do I use both the SMC Router (to get my internet out of my Comcast Supplied Motorola Surfboard Modem) and then add the FS 308 so that I can plug the new NAS device into the network.
I want my Wired and Wireless computers to have access to the NAS device.
I need wireless access for my WII
My replay TVs require a static IP address (which I have set up on the SMC Router)
I like using MAC Address filtering for network security
Any direction would be appreciated.
I know just enough to be dangerous...Having said that here is my dilema.
I have a "wired home and have grown out of the 4 wired ports theat my SMC 2804WBRP-G Wireless Router Provides.
On my network I have:
3 Wired ReplayTVs (DVRs that have internet sharing capabilities)
1 WII Consol that coect wirelessly only
1 Wired Desktop
3 Wireless Laptops
With the above I have generally been fine with the 2804.
Storage has become an issue and I recently purchased an HP Media Vault 5140 (NAS) that I would like to incorporate into my home network.
I wired my house with Cat 6 when I remodeled ad will eventiually step up to a Gigabit network but for now am using "spare parts" from my office network and have "access" to a Netgear FS308 8 Port Switch.
My question is how do I use both the SMC Router (to get my internet out of my Comcast Supplied Motorola Surfboard Modem) and then add the FS 308 so that I can plug the new NAS device into the network.
I want my Wired and Wireless computers to have access to the NAS device.
I need wireless access for my WII
My replay TVs require a static IP address (which I have set up on the SMC Router)
I like using MAC Address filtering for network security
Any direction would be appreciated.