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>>If you buy a switch - buy one with a least 8 ports -
>>You have to use a port from your router to connect to the switch
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>>The ports of the switch
>>(1) connects to the router
>>(2) the PC that was connected to the router
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>>So, 2 ports (out of 8 ) already used
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>Thank you for the suggestion. Although I am leaning toward buying a router instead of a switch; as I mentioned to Sergey, mostly because of wireless capabilities.

Of course wireless also introduces some potential security headaches. If not locked down properly at best you'll start having people "leeching" (i.e. hooking into your network to get "free" Internet), or worse (snooping around in your network and doing stuff).