IT related question.

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Hiku said:

Is there any kind of device that can expand a single fiberoptics broadband port on the wall into multiple ports? Like a router, basically. But a router seems to alter the signal. I need a device that purely splits the signal without altering it.

Is there something like that?
I need to hook up a router, which refuses to work unless its directly plugged into the wall. But because of certain issues, I need to find a way to connect more than one router to that fiberoptics port. (Connecting a second router into the first one is not an option.)

Please show me what exactly is coming out your wall. Also don't confuse the topics and meanings. A router routes, a switch switches. A router routes IP packets, a switch forwards packets only on layer 2 and only knows mac addresses (and a hub doesn't even know that).

 

Also, why do you need more routers?! And what type of protocol is coming out of your wall? Plain IP? Do you have to "dial up", do radius login or get IP via DHCP? Because that determines which device you have to plug in.