2 story house to extend coverage

I have 2 story house and trying t extend wireless coverage in the house.  I have have 2 routers.  
One is just wrt54g while the second dual mode EA-4500.  
Cable modem is located in the basement so i would like to have one of the routers connected to it and use another router as bridge.  
So which router would be best to use a bridge.   If i use ea4500 as a bridge then i would lose dual band features of it.  
can anyone suggest what would be the best to utilize these 2 routers to extend cocerage trought the whole house. 
Thanks

Hi, I suggest you do the cascading routers set up, LAN-WAN instead of bridging the router. With cascading routers, you could set up a different wireless network on both routers and they both manages the network. If you go with cascading I recommend to set up the WRT54G as the main router(LAN) then connect it to the WAN port of the EA4500. Check this link to guide you with the set up, http://www6.nohold.net/Cisco2/ukp.aspx?pid=80&vw=1&articleid=3733

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