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HOW DO YOU TURN ON A LINKSYS WRT54G WIRELESS ROUTER

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Those devices already have built-in switches. The 4 ports that are not labeled "WAN" provide a switching domain between them. You can simply ignore the routing functionality and use it as a switch. If you really need to go the extra mile, you can disable DHCP and assign the WAN interface a bogus IP address, or simply put the LAN interface IP address on a different subnet than your computers will actually be using.

If that above does not answer your question, describing more about what you are trying to do will help. Such as, do you already have a router and you only want another router to serve as hub or switch.

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