Newegg has the Rosewill RC-406X 10/100Mbps 8-Port Switch for $10 + $2 shipping = $12 shipped. Features a store and forward switching method, and 10/100Mbps transfer speed.
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100mbps is to two thousand and late...
Give me a G-bit 8 port Ben...
I just found out you can use a router as a switch. plug everything into the LAN side (including the upstream that would normally plug into the WAN port). now I have an xbox and tivo sharing one ethernet port and no longer have to plug and unplug wires daily.
if you need 4 downstream ports then you would have to figure out the settings to disable the firewall, NAT, etc.
Are you supposed to use cat 6 cable and connectors for gigabit ethernet?
Well #3, originally what was called a "router" was only a router, it had two ports in total for your WAN and LAN.
Then with the miracle of integration somebody decided "hey lets just combine both a router chip and a switch chip on the same PCB". Then process sizes shrank in the semicon industry and it became cost effective to even integrate both functions on the same chip.
Basically, it is a misnomer to call a consumer router a router, instead of calling it a router and switch, but for once marketing departments decided to simplify product names instead of long drawn out line item feature specific names.
Unfortunately, seldom do they make cost effective routers with more than 4 or 5 switch port capability.
man that is stupid cheap!