Networking with extender and switch

[ChrisGTL]

People,

I have a Be wireless router to my phone line.

Then I have a Netgear wireless extender that has 1 ethernet port.

I have to ethernet devices that I want to connect to the wireless extender.

Can I buy a netgear switch and connect it to the ethernet port on the wireless extender and plug my two ethernet devices into the switch?

This is my wireless extender > http://www.netgear.com/home/products/wireless-range-extenders/WN3000RP.aspx

This is the switch I was thinking about > http://www.netgear.co.uk/business/products/switches/unmanaged-desktop-switches/FS108.aspx

Would that work?

I also have a some spare networking devices kicking around;

Netgear GD834GT
D-Link DI604
Be Router Thomson ST585 v6

I've had a look on net but cant find a way of making one of these devices into a switch....?

 

[bremen1874]

I’d lose the competitor link.

Chances are you can either configure it as an extender or as a bridge, not as both simultaneously.

If you want to connect to the Ethernet port then it will need to be configured as a bridge. You could then add additional devices using a switch.

Almost any router will act as a switch if you disable DHCP and then just use the LAN ports.

Have you looked at Powerline adapters?

 

[ChrisGTL]

I’d lose the competitor link.

Chances are you can either configure it as an extender or as a bridge, not as both simultaneously.

If you want to connect to the Ethernet port then it will need to be configured as a bridge. You could then add additional devices using a switch.

Almost any router will act as a switch if you disable DHCP and then just use the LAN ports.

Have you looked at Powerline adapters?

Thanks. I don't think powerline adaptors can cope with HD streaming because of the massive overheads?

I don't quite understand what you are saying about the bridge mode. So if I want to connect a switch to the extender ethernet port I have to set it up as a bridge, but then I loose the wireless function so it won't connect to my ISP wireless router?

With regards to my spare routers, if I disable DHCP do I plug an cat5 cable from my extender ethernet to my router port 1 and then plug my ethernet tv into ethernet 2 and plug my Yamaha AV into ethernet 3....etc etc....

Does this setup look right?

ISP Router > 192.168.0.1 / 255.255.255.0
Wireless Extender > 192.168.0.2 / 255.255.255.0
D-Link 604 > disable DHCP 192.168.0.3 / 255.255.255.0
Bravia TV > 192.168.0.4 / 255.255.255.0
Yamaha AV > 192.168.0.5 / 255.255.255.0

Cheers.

 

[bremen1874]

Thanks. I don't think powerline adaptors can cope with HD streaming because of the massive overheads?

Powerline adapters probably have a better chance of HD streaming than wireless does. It obviously depends on several local factors, but I’d always use Powerline in preference to Wireless.

I don't quite understand what you are saying about the bridge mode. So if I want to connect a switch to the extender ethernet port I have to set it up as a bridge, but then I loose the wireless function so it won't connect to my ISP wireless router?

In bridge mode it’ll still connect back to the router using wireless. What it won’t do is continue to work as an extender. I’m making an assumption that it will only work in one mode or the other. Read the instructions to check.

With regards to my spare routers, if I disable DHCP do I plug an cat5 cable from my extender ethernet to my router port 1 and then plug my ethernet tv into ethernet 2 and plug my Yamaha AV into ethernet 3....etc etc....

Does this setup look right?

ISP Router > 192.168.0.1 / 255.255.255.0
Wireless Extender > 192.168.0.2 / 255.255.255.0
D-Link 604 > disable DHCP 192.168.0.3 / 255.255.255.0
Bravia TV > 192.168.0.4 / 255.255.255.0
Yamaha AV > 192.168.0.5 / 255.255.255.0

Basically yes. Configure the router you want to use as a switch so that its own DHCP server is disabled and it has an IP outside the DHCP range of your main router. All the other devices should be able to get their IPs via DHCP.

Cheers.

 

[ChrisGTL]

Loving it!! Using my old D-Link (low powered, no modem).

Set the IP's up as above and after turning all my hardware off and back on we are all talking to the internet.

Thanks a million for helping.

Sound as a pound this place!!!