Can a WRT54GL and WRT54GS be bridged wirelessly AND still have one act as a wireless access point?

We have a guest house we're trying to provide with internet through our
current connection. In the main house, we have a 54GL and at the guest
house a PC with a WUSB11 adapter to connect to the main house. To
provide wireless in the guest house, we have a 54GS plugged into a NIC
card on the pc that the WUSB11 adapter is connected to and all put on a
common network. This whole setup is working good, but we'd like to get
this setup working without having to have a PC running in the guest
house. Is there a way to get the guest house 54GS router working
stand-alone as a bridge to the main house and also serve as a wireless
access point for guests staying at the guest house? The two houses are
a good distance apart, which is why we are doing it this way. Here is
a crude diagram:
http://webpages.charter.net/rumi2/wirelesssetup.gif
Thanks,

Jack

On 8 Nov 2006 18:54:48 -0800, (E-Mail Removed) wrote in
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>We have a guest house we're trying to provide with internet through our
>current connection. In the main house, we have a 54GL and at the guest
>house a PC with a WUSB11 adapter to connect to the main house. To
>provide wireless in the guest house, we have a 54GS plugged into a NIC
>card on the pc that the WUSB11 adapter is connected to and all put on a
>common network. This whole setup is working good, but we'd like to get
>this setup working without having to have a PC running in the guest
>house. Is there a way to get the guest house 54GS router working
>stand-alone as a bridge to the main house and also serve as a wireless
>access point for guests staying at the guest house? The two houses are
>a good distance apart, which is why we are doing it this way. Here is
>a crude diagram:
>http://webpages.charter.net/rumi2/wirelesssetup.gif

Most budget wireless routers cannot act as both a wireless client and a
wireless access point at the same time. WDS (repeater) mode is the next
best thing, albeit at a substantial reduction in speed.

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(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> We have a guest house we're trying to provide with internet through our
> current connection. In the main house, we have a 54GL and at the guest
> house a PC with a WUSB11 adapter to connect to the main house.

Since you have a Linksys WRT54 at the house, you can use a Linksys WAP54
in the guest house running in repeater mode. Granted repeater mode has
half the throughput, but still five times as fast as the cable modem can
deliver.