'lo all

I'm trying to network my house, which has 9 of us living in it. We have a netgear ADSL modem/router/switch, and so far one switch. With three free ports on the netgear, and 4 free ports on my switch, everything was fine, and we all could see the whole wide world outside. I now want to add the last two people who have just moved into the house. They have a switch that they can use, and I though it would be an easy job to connect them using that.
With the other switch, I used straight through cables for everything. I did the same thing with the new switch, but nothing works! The light from the router to the new switch flashes, but the poeple who use the new switch can't see anything but the other people on the same switch.

Are you not allowed to have more than one switch going from the one router????

NETGEAR
ROUTER
| | | |
| |
| |------------SWITCH 2
|
SWITCH 1

With two free ports on the netgear for misc. servers.

Any ideas?

glj

P.S. I'm really bad with ASCII art!

try a cross cable to connect one switch with the otherone

No luck with that either.
Apologies about the subject, it should read 1 router, >switch!

No prob, it was a dodgy cable in the end. Packet loss abound.

Sorry for the double post btw

glj