I dont see the need for the switch or hub at all, assuming theres 4 ports on the router, which most have. At my house i have a dsl conenction and 4 pc's conencted to it, this is how i do it. Modem -> Router -> 4 pc's. Each PC has a local IP like 192.168.0.2, router gets the ISP's IP, and best of all, XP uses this setup as default so absolutly no configuration is needed, just plug and play.
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