Wireless router to Wireless router.

Hi. Is this possible? If so could i have some pointers please.

THe scenario is this.

We have 3 computers connected (via wire) to a wire/wireless router (3com officeconnect 3crwdr100a) which is then wired to the internect connection coming into the house.

We have just upgraded to a New Boradband Voip package which comes with a new wireless modem/router simply called the BT HUB. The router inside the new hub is better than are current one but only has two ethernet sockets.

THe new hub will also have phones connected to it, so would be better of staying downstairs (old hub is up stairs).

I was wondering is it possible to connect to the new hub/router via the old wireless router upstairs. I know the old router supports WDS. or is there a better method?

So question is ? what is the best (if any)way to connect two wireless router together. ie.

Internet > router 1(Bt hub)> Voip phones & router 2> Router 2> 3Pcs

Wired > wireless in general, so one option is to wire the connection between the routers, and disable the DHCP/etc. on the second router, and just use that as a dumb switch. Better yet, get a cheap GbE switch for speed within the LAN (assuming you have or will get some computers with GbE) or a very cheap regular 10/100 switch if your old router doesn't have enough ports.

Often WDS does not support WPA security (WEP only), which IMO rules it out from consideration due to WEP's current weakness.

An alternative to WDS is wireless client mode / bridging. There are a handful of device that do this. They connect to the main router/AP as a wireless client, and then pass on this connection to all wired computers.

The Linksys WRT54GL and others can do this with 3rd-party firmware such as DD-WRT. The Netgear WGPS606 wireless print server can do this. The D-Link DWL-2100AP is designed to do this, but you'll need to add a switch to it. There are a few others.

The client mode sometimes performs better than WDS, almost certainly support WPA and works cross-vendor (because they're just connecting as a client) and should be OK for normal-speed internet browsing.