[Closed] router with 2x dnla outputs-i need more!!

Out of interest what router do you have?

an orange livebox cd77

I've used a few of these around the house[url= http://www.amazon.co.uk/Netgear-Prosafe-Ethernet-Unmanaged-Switch/dp/B00009015U/ref=pd_cp_computers_1 ]Ethernet switch[/url]

While you can use y-splitters on it - [i]it is really bad form[/i] - most kit should be capable of dealing with the resultant errors. YMMV.

Just had a quick scan of the router specs as I didn't quite understand what you meant by 'router with 2x dlna outputs' but looking at this info:

[i]There are two Ethernet ports (Red and Yellow) and two USB ports (A and B) available with Livebox router. You can connect PCs and games consoles to LiveBox using the Ethernet ports.[/i]

I presume you need more than the red and yellow ports? and that you're connecting say a disk drive into one of the USB ports and the Livebox is streaming the contents to whatever is connected to the red\yellow ports?

If so, you don't split say the red port as such, what you can do is plug, using an ethernet cable, a 4 or 8 port switch (like the one stgeorge linked to), and then plug your other devices into the second switch using ethernet cables giving a dedicated feed for each device.

thanks for all your help/advise, could i connect an external hard drive using the usb port in my router? and then retrieve music/files from the hard drive using my panasonic hdd recorder which acts as a server?

No.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Livebox