We have about 8 - 9+ computers in our household (shop pc, mine and my brothers bedroom pc and consoles, kitchen, my 2 game development pcs, music production pc, 3D animation workstations and my dads workstations as well as various laptops of above family members)
With this many pcs and constant file transfer over wifi (in a very wifi saturated neighborhood) I figured Its about time we went back to good old lan setup.
The powerconnect has had a steep learning curve for me but I managed to set it up via Putty serial with a USB to Serial adapter and gotten the web interface to work. As of this point it's uncharted territories. All we have is a modem from out ISP and all the computers around the house hold. All we need is to get all of those computers to be able to see each other and to be able to connect to the internet modem
Now I know some of you may be tempted to just post a link to the documentation and tell me to read that. I already have it and even though I may read what each feature does on the switch, I won't know if a particular function is indeed what I need anyways. I realize that nobody likes spoon-feeding but if it's not too much to ask, could someone point exactly what I needed to be set up and what I need to enable to get all our pcs connected to the internet and each other.
PS: As someone who has had a lot of trouble finding the solution to getting access to the web-interface, I'm sure there are other people like me who may be in the same sittuation right now. This took me a while to realize but with the power conenct 3348, In order to get that access to the web interface, you have to set your network adapter settings on the pc to have the same gateway as the switch. Only then I was able to access the web interface by putting in the ip you've set up on the switch terminal, in the browsers address.