Keeping existing router but want to go gigabit ?

[mrk]

I have a WRT54GL eating Tomato right now and am very happy because tomatoes are good for you.

Anyway, I would like to have my network gigabit enabled but not lose the WRT.

What would be the best solution to integrate gigabit into the network? I do have wireless devices using the wireless but they are my little brother’s PC and my sister’s Laptop and the Wii so they don’t need anything faster than 54G to operate. All 3 other computers are wired to the router.

Could I for example plug a wired gigabit switch into one of the router ports and have the wired computers running off that as a network? Would the wireless computers connected to the router still be able to access computer shares on the switch ?

I don’t want to lose the WRT ideally!

 

[mrk]

Thanks guys! I have one last question before looking at what OCUK stock.

With the switch plugged into one of the ports on the router say for example 2 wired computers begin downloading something (I am on VM 20MB) would the bandwidth be crippled in any way because the data is being fetched from one port on the router instead of 2 as it would be without the switch?
I know the speed would be around 1.1MB/sec per machine if they started downloading a file without restrictions at source but would it be any worse because the switch is connected to only one router port or will the routers built in switch manage this out as normal ?

I have found the Netgear:
NETGEAR GS105 ProSafe 5-Port Unmanaged Gigabit Switch

Seems awfully cheap at under £40 !

I am assuming that no configuration is needed since it’s just a switch ? (never used one before!)

Cheers!

 

[mrk]

Good to hear! ok one final question I swear! I connect to my PC via RDP and have forwarded ports mapped to specific machines with specific IP addresses, will the wired machines on the switch be issues new IP addresses by the switch or will it simply pass this job to the router ?

 

[mrk]

I think i will have to make use of the free shipping this week then on the 605!

Many thanks all!