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....?

 

[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.

 

[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!!!