Your Blu ray player and your PC cannot share the same port per se.  You could buy a small ethernet switch (four port) and connect it to your current PC port and give yourself the extra port you need for the Blu ray player.

Once you hook up the Blu ray player, the router will assign it an IP address.  There is probably a "setup" process you will need to go through in the Blu ray menu to help you do this.

Just because it is on the network, does not necessarily mean you can access it from your PC or other devices.  It all depends on the player and/or software that may or may not have accompanied it.

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Once hooked up would the router automatically recognize the player and set up the IP Address and all of that?

That depends on the network settings. Did you have to enter anything IP-wise on your PC? If not, the router of your building most likely does DHCP, meaning if a new machine enters the network it gets an IP automatically. The same would go for the BD-player.


cya, Miithi

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How much are these switches?

Here's a 5-port one at Amazon for $9.99.

You can also have multiple switches on a network.

I have a switch attached to the router which links to two other switches, one in my bedroom and one in the downstairs family area. The later also works as a repeater for the switch in the upstairs living room.