Wireless router + access point?

[frummaceuk]

Ok so i recently moved into a new home with my parents. Being the most tech savvy of my family, and needing a direct ethernet connection to my router, I had both the modem and router placed in my new room. This is a wireless lynksis router (WRT150N), but when i hooked it up the signal is very weak (obviously) on the other side of the house.

What i am looking to do is boost the signal for the whole house. I have a 50ft long ethernet cable and an old netgear ME 102 access point. Can i use this in conjunction with the router, running it across the house using the long ethernet cable? Would this provide good wireless signal to the rest of the house?

 

[The_Other_One]

That should work fine. I mean that is basically what an access point is made to do. The only problem I could see is something regarding the software/conficts between the two. Just connect the AP to the Linksys and see what it does. If you can see both SSID's then you know you can exend the AP to wherever you want

 

[AdmnPower]

Here's a little bit more indepth of how you'll want to set it up, we had something similar to this at a place I worked a while back. What you'll want to do is have both the router and access point broadcasting the same SSID, but on different channels. Preferably quite a distance appart having one on channel 1 and one on channel 6 should be good. (depending on what other networks are in your area) Anyway, having your access point plugged into the router is essentially like what we had. We had two access points plugged into a switch. It's not as great as expensive access points that make a hand off between each other, but it works. What happens is when you move to an area where the other's signal is stronger your wireless device should start communicating with the new access point. The hand off rather than being smooth sort of resembles how it would be if you had your computer connected to a switch and unplugged it from one port and back into a different one. Things like streaming video will mess up and stuff but if it's quick enough things like instant messenger and such won't disconnect. I hope that gives you a better idea of how it will all work.