Ideas required for home network

[pennywise]

OK, I've got 3 routers at my disposal on a (soon to be activated) BTBB line:

2wire 1800HG
BT Homehub 2.0
Linksys WRT54GL (Tomato)

I'm thinking the best way to set this up would be to let the Linksys do the routing, and let the 2wire act as the modem (and totally forget about the Homehub since it's not very interesting functionality wise).

The router will only be serving one computer directly, as it'll be feeding into a Gigabit switch for the rest of the house, so I'm just wondering:
- What the best way to set up the whole network would be
- Is there any limit to the number of switches you can have on a network (I wouldn't think so, although it all depends on the router handling IPs... right?)
- If I were to use the 2wire as a modem and the WRT54GL as the router, how would I go about disabling the routing on the 2wire? I've tried following several tutorials but none seem to want to work... I'm probably just retarded and missing something blatantly obvious, but hey, we all have our moments )

Any help or advice appreciated, and feel free to suggest better options.

 

[radderfire]

- Is there any limit to the number of switches you can have on a network (I wouldn't think so, although it all depends on the router handling IPs... right?)

I don't think there would be a limit on number of switches that you would reach with a home network setup, how many did you want to use?

What have you got against the Homehub? They normally do the job don't they?

Rgds

 

[pennywise]

I don't think there would be a limit on number of switches that you would reach with a home network setup, how many did you want to use?

What have you got against the Homehub? They normally do the job don't they?

Rgds

I'm thinking around 3x 4 port switches, although they may not all be necessary... but I'm just thinking ahead

I have nothing against the Homehub either, I've been using one for the past 18 months and I've had nothing but a good experience with it. It's just that I know for a fact that the 2wire can give better (albeit minimal) and more stable sync speeds and the Linksys is probably one of the best readily available routers around (consumer level, that is), so I'd like to have the best aspects of both devices.

 

[knowlesy]

agreed with the linksys and with tomato installed as it can give you loads of little features you thought you'd never use until you have them, thats how i have my set-up at my flat with a Thompson box as the modem and the linksys as the router!!!

concerning the switches theres never a limit bar slowness if you have say 50 people on 10 different switches which are all spiderd around, accessing a server downloading profiles to peoples pcs etc youd notice it for sure however since your at home id doubt youd notice !!!!

as for the 2wire, forums like this or a custom firmware which just makes it a router thats how i configd my thompson box.

as for the setup of the network what do you mean the 2wire and linksys or a more in depth approach ?

 

[pennywise]

concerning the switches theres never a limit bar slowness if you have say 50 people on 10 different switches which are all spiderd around, accessing a server downloading profiles to peoples pcs etc youd notice it for sure however since your at home id doubt youd notice !!!!

That's great. I probably won't have any more than 3 (at a MAX) gigabit switches dotted around, so there shouldn't be any problems.

as for the setup of the network what do you mean the 2wire and linksys or a more in depth approach ?

Well I was hoping there would be someone else here with a similar setup that would be able to advise me on the best way to go about setting up the 2wire as a modem and linking in the Linksys as a router. There is more to the network than what I've mentioned here, but I think I've figured it out, and if I tried to explain it here I'd probably just confuse the hell out of myself in the process :S

 

[knowlesy]

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Well I was hoping there would be someone else here with a similar setup that would be able to advise me on the best way to go about setting up the 2wire as a modem and linking in the Linksys as a router. There is more to the network than what I've mentioned here, but I think I've figured it out, and if I tried to explain it here I'd probably just confuse the hell out of myself in the process :S

lol gutted that work ?? the linksys as its was a cable modem all you do is more than likely plug your ethernet cable in the 2wire port one stick tuther end in the internet port on the linksys and bobs ya uncle dont forget to use opendns

hope this works