I have a Linksys WAG354G wireless router situated upstairs that all my wifi devices use to connect to the internet and each other.
Assume I have just bought a none wifi enabled PC for downstairs, situated well away from my Linksys. As it happens I have 2 spare wireless routers kicking around, one of which is a Netgear WG834GT.
My question is, can I connect none wifi PC to the netgear router via ethernet and then have the netgear act as a wireless access point and communicate with the linksys upstairs? ie, I don't want to have an ethernet cable going from downstairs to upstairs and I don't want to buy a wireless adaptor (for this example).
I've just tried doing the above, I log into the netgear, turn off DHCP and assign it an IP within the range of the linksys router. But what settings do I put for subnet mask, wireless SSID, security etc? do I simply match the settings on the Linksys?
Or is what I want to do even possible?