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  • Should I Use a Router or Switch?

    We have 3 apartments on the 2nd level of my office which share DSL internet via wireless.

    The walls are concrete throughout the building so we currently have the DSL modem connected to a Linksys Router (BEFSR41) with each apartment having a Linksys Wireless Access Point (WAP54G) connected to the router.

    The tenants are having problems with dropped signals which I believe to be a faulty router (it is about 3-4 years old), so I'm constantly up there manual power cycing the router. Like the signal gets weaker as the day goes on.

    We would like to replace it.

    My question is, should I replace with another router or should I use a switch? I'm not very network savvy.

    Thanks a bunch!

    4 AnswersComputer Networking1 decade ago