Wireless Router == Access Point??

[jcrash]

Can most/all wireless routers also be used simply as an access point? I have a home network with a nice router, but I need to add wireless. The wireless routers are all priced below the "access points". I notice SOME of the routers descriptions will say access point but not all do.

I was specifically thinking about the Microsoft Router (rebate!) or one from SMC.

 

[Ligoc]

Just about any wireless router can be used as an access point. All you need to do to the wireless router is change its IP address so it doesn't conflict with the other router or any of the computers and disable anything that will be taken care of by the main router such as DHCP.

 

[calbars]

Yep, no problem using them as AP. I'm doing this with a SMC Barricade.

I just connected the SMC to my home CAT5 network using a normal port on the switch, not the WAN port. I configured the WAN port to use a static ip on a bogus net (10.0.01) different than my home network (192.168.2.0/24) and left it empty. I disabled DHCP on the internal network since I already have a server doing this. Rest is set up as usual (WEP, MAC filtering, etc).

Don't use the WAN port unless you want routing and NAT.