More networking woes--setting up a wireless access point?

[K3Fallout]

Alright guys, bear with my very amateur explanation of this. So, in an attempt to improve my signal in my house I relocated my router upstairs from downstairs by running a long cable to the modem downstairs, since I have read that the signal travels more efficiently down than up apparently. That has not been the case. Now, I have two routers. A D-link DIR-655 and a Netgear router provided by Comcast which is a WNR-1000v2.

So, if I am reading correctly, or perhaps out of quick desperation, would it be possible to set one of these routers up as a wireless access point? Have a router upstairs be the access point, and have a router downstairs connected to the modem. This sounds like this may be a solution but let me know if I'm completely wrong. In my mind, what I'm after is more of a range extender or a repeater but at this point I don't know the difference anymore. It's been quite stressful dealing with my old man for the past week because he can't use his iPad.

 

[Jay_2]

yes, just put the cable into one of the LAN ports on the router and setup a wireless network with the same channel, name and encryption

 

[K3Fallout]

Awesome, thanks. Although I think I read that the WAP and the main router must have two difference SSIDs and channels?

 

[K3Fallout]

Bump. So I went through everything and now my whole house is covered and everything can connect to a single network. The only problem I'm having now is that my laptop, which I used to connect and set up the WAP can't connect wirelessly to the network. Any ideas? I tried flushing the DNS, renewing the IP(don't think that worked), restarting the laptop, and rebooting the modem and main router.

EDIT: disregard this post. It was a stupidly simple problem. Needed to remove the network and just connect to it again.