Need help to save my sanity

[JeeJoo]

Okay I have a WRT54GS v2 (running Tomato), a SLM2008 Cisco/Linksys Gigabit Switch and now a DIR-655 Gigabit Wireless N Router.

The WRT54GS is in the living room acting as the Gateway and my Gigabit capable Media Center PC is wired to it.

In the office I have the SLM2008 with two Gigabit capable PCs connected to it which is wired to the WRT54GS in the living room.

I also have a printer, an iBook, a Macbook Pro and a Wii all using wireless through the WRT54GS

I added the DIR-655 into the environment because I want everything in the LAN that is Gigabit capable to be able to transfer files around to each other as fast as possible, and I have a new Macbook Pro that I want to take advantage of the wireless N. All things my trusty WRT54GS can not do since it is just 100Mb.

I would like to be able to leave the WRT54GS running tomato as my Gateway to the Cable Modem and Firewall and DHCPd etc. Attach the new DIR-655 to that and then the media center PC and the SLM2008 to the DIR-655 and then have all the wireless clients in the house connect to the DIR-655 so if they are N capable they will get max speed too.

Basically the WRT54GS will just handle Internet traffic in and out and maybe a Wii wirelessly in the DMZ. I like all the ssh/tunneling/vpn goodies on the Tomato based WRT and don't want to give them up.

[thiggins]

How To Convert a Wireless Router into an Access Point (http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/content/view/30338/228/)
How To Add an Access Point to a Wireless Router (http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/content/view/30355/228/)

[JeeJoo]

Thanks for those links thiggins!

With the guidance provided in those links I think I have it set up like I wanted; WAN->WRT54GS->DIR-655 with the DIR-655 acting as the Wireless AP and the Media PC and SLM2008 connected to the DIR-655.

One more question... If I have the Gateway WRT54GS acting as my DHCP for the LAN will the computers connected to the downstream DIR-655 pass traffic to each other using only the Gigabit speeds provided for by the DIR-655 and the SLM2008? Or will having the WRT54GS providing the IP addresses through its DHCP interfere with this?

Thanks again.

[thiggins]

The WRT54GS will not interfere with the speed of devices connected to the DIR-655's Gigabit switch unless they communicate with the Internet or any devices connected to the WRT54GS' 10/100 switch. In that case, the Gigabit devices will temporarily switch to 100 Mbps, then switch back to using Gigabit when communicating with other Gigabit devices.

[JeeJoo]

Awesome. Thank you for helping me thiggins.