Adding a hub in my classroom.

[daddog]

On the north side of my school room I have 4 ports for our LAN. I use one which gives me 3 systems in my room for my students. On the south side I have 4 more ports. Problem is on the south side I don’t have any power. I had thought about running 4 LONG Cat 5 cables across the room, but one of our tech said I could just add a hub to the north side of my room.

Any suggestions on a hub to use? I only need to add 4 more ports. Do I just plug the hub into one of the 4 ports on the north side and then run more ports out of it?

 

[starbird]

What are the wires coming into your room connected to? I'm going to guess its a switch. If thats the case, you can plug a hub into any one of them (using the uplink port on the hub), and plug the computers into the other ports.  If you get a 5 port hub, using the one uplink port will give you 4 more ports to use (the uplink port is usually tied into the #1 port).

I might be wrong, but I believe the longest you can make a cat5 cable is 150ft before you need a repeater.

As for hubs, I've only used consumer brand linksys. Most people I've talked to like netgear better, get whichever is cheapest.  I don't think one works any better than others, at least I've never seen comparisons.

 

[daddog]

Thanks star! Looking into it now.  

[SunKing]

Setting up Aces High H2H at school? start em young  :w00t:  

[daddog]

LOL!

I wish.. but some day I might bring in my system to show them.

Worked great Star! I found an Asante hub that was not being used.  All set here.