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Using 2wire 2701 hg-g as switch

My 2wire has a dsl connection (that connectred to the phone line to get internet access). Do I need to utilize this connection or can I use the ethernet ports on the 2wire to connect to the dir655?

Can you give a more detailed explanation of how you want to use the 2wire and the dir655

Sure.
I have a cable modem that connects to a dir655 router via ethernet. I want to set up a powerline device between my dir655 and 2wire. The powerline will connect to the dir655 using an ethernet port and will connect to the 2wire using an ethernet port as well. But, I need the 2wire to only function as a switch so that I can use the remaining ethernet ports on the 2wire to connect to my PS3, and Boxee. I am trying to first set up the 2wire without the powerline adapters between the 2wire and the dir655 but I am stuck. Let me know if this isn't clear and I could sketch it out and upload an image.

Your explaination is good enough except that your other post mentions that the 2wire has a dsl/internet connection

You can use the 2wire as a ethernet switch by disabling it's dhcp server and it does not need to be connected to the dsl line

OMG it worked. HA HA. Thank you so much.

reply to wayjac
Hi,
One last question. I diabled the DHCP server and I cannot access the configuration pages of the 2wire by connecting to it. Is there a way to access that page now?

Manually set the computers tcp/ip info to
ip address 192.168.1.63
subnet mask 255.255.255.0
default gateway 192.168.1.254

If you need to access the 2wire configuration pages frequently change the 2wire ip address to a unique ip in the subnet of the dir655