PC Tech Thread

Seriously though... will i need a router between the Virgin box and the switch? The box will be in modem only mode...

Yes.

If your Virgin box is in modem mode... then it isn't doing anything other than terminating the internet connection.

If you connect a switch... you won't have internet because you'll have no:

• NAT
  
• DHCP
  
• DNS
  
• Routing
  
  

This is the stuff that the EdgeMax gives you. The ability to take a line signal, map it to a range of generated IP addresses on internal devices, and route the traffic between them all.

Switches are dumb (as fuck)... all they do is take IP addresses, and ask of each side (in and out) "Do you have 192.168.1.7?" and when something answers yes the switch sends traffic that way.

But switches don't do DHCP... so nothing on your network will have an IP address, and nothing will work.

You need a Router... more than you need a Switch - because you could just connect a single wifi and daisy chain wireless if this is the kind of crazy that gets you off ;)