Would it work well for voip if they used some type of wireless bridge to connect the two wireless APs ?
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OK, in that case I would suggest running Cat5E cable as you say from the existing Wireless AP at the back to the front of the shop. Hopefully they have a spare Ethernet port, if not then buy a cheap 5-port switch.
Don't buy a WRTP54G-au but instead put a cheap Access Point with 4-port switch in at the front of the shop and set it to an IP address on the same subnet as the existing Dlink -- not the same IP address obviously
Then buy a Linksys PAP2T for VoIP and connect it to a spare port on the front Access Point.
Reasons I have suggested doing it this way are:
1) If you buy a WRTP54G-au, you will have 2 NAT devices in the one network which is sure to stuff up VFX.
2) The cost of a PAP2T ($100 approx) and Access Point ($50 approx) is much the same as a WRTP54G-au.
3) The second Access Point should immensely improve wireless coverage at the front of the shop and hopefully all points in between there and the back of the shop, depending on how large it is, internal metalwork/walls etc, etc.
P.S. If your ADSL connection can be relocated to the front of the shop, you could instead use a WRTP54G-au and forget the PAP2T, but then you would need to ditch the existing D-Link router, or possibly disable its routing functions and just use its Access Point and network switch (assuming it has one).
A few options to consider Graham...
Which do you think is best?
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gchiu: I was hoping to put the Linksys WRTP54G-AU in the DMZ of the DLink WAP. Would that fix the double NAT difficulties?
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