MY current setup: (read from top to bottom, I'm hopeless at ASCII drawing)
ISP Antenna on roof
10 meters of RGC cable Linux Box with lotsa nice filters 8 port switch My PC and a wireless router (netgear WGR614v9) The wireless router feeds my son's and my wife's PCs, which have USB and PCI wireless cards. My PC plugs into the switch.I use a "straight cable" with all these connections. I once tried plugging the netgear directly into my Linux box,using the stock cable it came with, but it did not like that.
Could I use a cross-over cable between the linux box and the wireless router, and then just plug my PC into one of the RJ45 slots in the router ? That would eliminate the 8 port switch, which is starting to give me startup problems.
Or would that damage something ? TIA