Can I Use a Switch to Connect a Netgear 6150

[Klueless]

(I thought about posting to the Netgear subforum but it's actually a kind of generic question.)

Our sales office connects to the service center (garage) with a Cat5 cable. The garage currently has an old 4-port Ethernet Netgear G router that feeds wirless to the garage. One port connects to the router in the Sales building and the other three connect to various garage devices.

The intuitive way would be a 4-port wireless access point, 1 port for the uplink leaving 3 ports for my hardwired devices. But ...

... for the tight area we're working in I really like the format factor of the Netgear 6150 range extender which can be configured to be a (wired) wireless access point but it's only got the one Ethernet port for the uplink.

What I'm thinking is one of those tiny 5-port gigabit "dumb" switches; one port for the uplink to the sales building, one to the Netgear 6150 and the others to my wired devices. On paper it looks like it would work.

And since both buildings would now be on the same network (192.168.1.x), no routing needed between the two buildings, it looks like it would work.

What say you all? Am I missing something?

 

[degrub]

Think of a switch as just ethernet cable. It is completely transparent to devices in practice.
Ethernet used to have a thick yellow "backbone" cable that you attached vampire clamps on to make a connection to the network. Each device would try to make its communication on the ethernet. If it detected a collision, it would try again until successful. That yellow backbone cable is the same as the switch is today.

The only question is how far the two buildings are from each other for the cable run. Since it is working today, then it should be ok. You might run into enough ground potential difference that it causes issues with a different switch, but maybe not.

 

[Klueless]

Think of a switch as just ethernet cable. It is completely transparent to devices in practice.

Thank you. Just wanted to make sure I was making the "right" mistake : -)