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schiller
06-25-2003, 08:08 PM
Ive been looking into routers (not wireless) for broadband connections (cable).

One thing im not getting is how the better manufactures (3com,netgear) say 240+ users can be connected throught the routers to the BB connection even though there are only 4 ports?

How does that work? do you connect hubs/switches to the router ports?

I dont get it, cheers

Mike
Midknyte
06-25-2003, 08:22 PM
one subnet in tcpip has a max of 256 addresses from 0 to 255. 0 is used for the network id, and 255 is for broadcast, so that's 254 left. the router will use one so that leaves a possible 253 other clients. you would of course need to get additional switches and uplink them to the router, but it is theoretically possible.