>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>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
>>>>>
>>>>>The ports of the switch
>>>>>(1) connects to the router
>>>>>(2) the PC that was connected to the router
>>>>>
>>>>>So, 2 ports (out of 8 ) already used
>>>>
>>>>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).
>>
>>True. I will, of course, enable the security feature of the router.
>One other thing you'll have to remember -- wireless access points tend to have a DHCP server. This will generally cause problems with any existing DHCP server (a friend of mine told me a story where they had such an inciident at where he works -- one of the employees had plugged in a wireless access point from home so he could use his notebook on the corporate network. As a result, it caused a network outage in sections of the network for several minutes until the source of the problem could be tracked down.).

Thank you for this point.