Switch woes

I added a switch into my network for the following reasons

1) There are 4 desktops that occupy the 4 ethernet ports on my router.
2) We have guests pretty often
3) sometimes i don't want to use wifi with my laptop (streaming videos off of it is the best example.)

BUT heres my problem. Since i added the switch i can't connect to any of the devices connected to the router. my network looks like this

Code:

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[Router] -|-------|----------|---------|------|
[Desktop 1] [Desktop2] [Desktop3] [Switch] [WIFI]
                                  |
                                    [Desktop4]

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Is there some way to reconnect my switch devices?

are you sure you have the cable going from the router to the switch in the right spot? usually there's an uplink position on the switch or a switch to change one position from normal to uplink. some super gank-smank switches will auto switch one position too.

Yes, i have a 10M straight thru cable running to the uplink port on the switch, dekstop 4 has internet access, just not access to devices connected to the router.

is it a dumb switch or a programmable switch? maybe you have something funky going on with your addresses or subnet masks.

should be jsust a plain old dumb switch

Can you see the devices in your network and just not access them? Or can you not see them at all?

Hold up, i see them on the network map...... and now i can get in... wth... well i guess i just needed to refresh the network map and everything worked... fml moment.

Lol, glad everything worked out