2 routers? Help! :(

[patmagpantay]

I am planning to build a LAN Server for our office, Currently we have the Hurricane 9300G Wireless Router provided by our internet service provider, While i am looking around the office i have seen this D-Link EBR-2310. I am planning to maximize what we have here and use it as well, but i am wondering how will i be able to use this? it has 5 ports compared to the prolinks 4 ports. It is not wireless though ( D-link ) Is that what people calls a switch? We plan to host websites from our computer server in the internet in the future, we plan to share files and printer as well. Thanks!

[edited by: encyclo at 8:58 pm (utc) on Nov. 10, 2007]
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[jtara]

The product you mentioned is a wired router. It is used to connect your network to an Internet Service Provider.

Most routers today have a built-in switch, and this one apparently does as well.

It would probably be better, though, to simply get a switch as the basis for your office network. For one thing, you can get inexpensive 10/100/1000 switches today, and routers typically only have 1/100 switches built-in. With a 10/100/1000 switch, those machines that have 1000-base-T capability will be able to communicate with each other faster.

We plan to host websites from our computer server in the internet in the future

You might want to do a search for the various previous posts on this subject on WebmasterWorld. You might not want to do so after you've read them.

For most, hosting websites on your own premises is not a good idea. It requires extra bandwidth which is not cost-effective to bring into your building. That is, you can get much more bandwidth at a much lower cost by renting web services, web servers or colocation space in a data center.