StomachMonkey,
oh man, it's getting a little out of the way. Sorry if I was not clear on my question/explanation.
It's not that I ignored you, no I don't. It's just that I am still looking for solution to make it works and I am not giving up yet. I totally understand you suggested to have switch after the router. I am sure it is the best way to set up a home network, but it's just not the best solution for my case. 1) because if I have a router in place of the switch, I don't need the switch after the router (router already has 4 ports). 2) I can just replace the switch with another router. that is routers after routers, as I responded to MysticLlama. Why do I need more than 1 routers? Because I need to have more than 1 IP addresses. And if you read the way I run my cable (above response), you'll see that I want to eliminate running cable back and forth between up and down stair. Right now, I have 1 cable gooing up stair. I hope I can keep it that way, if possible.
Thank you.
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Originally Posted by stomachmonkey
Sure, I tell him the same thing pages ago and he ignores me, must be the "Mystic" in your name, gives you cred. 
It's because DSL can be set up as 2 56k pipes.
The simple way to think about it is it's two separate broadband connections.
The switch before the routers was directing traffic from the two routers to their respective lines. |