Best way to access external hard drives wirelessly using AX?

I have an iBook G4 with an airport card and an iMac G3 with a D-link USB wireless adapter. Both work very well with my AX in networking, printing, using airtunes and accessing the internet. I can even see my external hard drive when it's plugged into either machine and mount that drive to the other computer over the network--however the file transfer is extremely slow of course.
Here's what I'd like to do: I plan on getting another external hard drive and would like to be able to connect both computers to either drive wirelessly with good file transfer/access. From what I understand both Linksys and D-link make network storage devices that allow you to do this, but I'm wondering if I then also need a wireless bridge for the iMac?
Can someone give me a run down as to how this all works and what the easiest way to go about doing this is?
Thanks!

These will allow you to do what you want to do.
Wireless-G Media Storage Link Router with SpeedBooster
All-in-one Internet-sharing Router, Access Point, and Network Storage Link! this is an all-in-one device.
Buffalo Technology Link Station though this will also need an ethernet wireless bridge as well as would this Netgear Storage Device.
This D-Link wireless storage device seems to meet your needs specifically. With this device you still need a wireless router such as the AX.

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