techrecovery | Aug. 25th, 2002

Got a question for some of you network guru's.
I have a cable ISP.
they give me two IP's.
I want to hook up 2 broadband routers to these two IP's.
I have a netgear, and a linksys.
I have tried several methods, mainly being cable modem into a switch, then off to the two routers, then off to the computers.

Any suggestions as to how to do this?
When I hook them up, everything works great, but my access times to the net double.
ping times to my email server, and several quake servers have doubled, and that is unacceptable.

I have access to a regular 10BT hub that i will try, but i cant see why a switch would be slower than a hub.

I am quite network savy, so dont try to hide any technical terms. I am a network guy for a big oil company, but this is just little home networking stuff.

Any ideas?

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