router config question

[IDversusEGO]

so I have a wireless router. I have a basement. I want all my network equipment in the basement but wireless has this thing where reception goes down when entombed in concrete. I was thinking...what if I ran from the modem to a wired router then to the wireless router (configed in AP mode). should work right? right?

I am thinking of getting this for routing and disabling the wireless...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833122274

then running cat5e to this upsairs and using it for wireless access....
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833127215

that would also let me use the Dlinks ports to serve whatever was in my entertainment center...htpc, xbox, maybe a ps3 one day. or I could just run 2 cables from the living room to the basement...one to the modem, one to the gigabit switch. I was kind of counting on the 3 extra gigabit ports the switch would give me downstairs though.

 

[horndog]

I think I would need to see it as it is hard to visualize

 

[InvisiBill]

That should work fine as long as you're able to disable DHCP on the upstairs router. It will simply be acting like a switch and AP.

Keep in mind that you'll have a single 1Gb link between the two routers though. If you have multiple basement-to-upstairs connections, they'll all be sharing that single 1Gb link between the two floors. That shouldn't be a problem for most, but it's something to keep in mind.

 

[IDversusEGO]

That should work fine as long as you're able to disable DHCP on the upstairs router. It will simply be acting like a switch and AP.

Keep in mind that you'll have a single 1Gb link between the two routers though. If you have multiple basement-to-upstairs connections, they'll all be sharing that single 1Gb link between the two floors. That shouldn't be a problem for most, but it's something to keep in mind.

because the single link will be going to the entertainment center only it wont be a problem. I wont be doing two things at once from there.