3 56G wireless ready Macs need info on a wireless router.

We have a two level house and the macintosh that will have the router will be on one end of the house on the seconds level while the other two mac are on the first floor.
The first would be in the middle of the of the other two and we estimate the distance with the wireless antena pointing down to the lower level that would would need a wireless area coverage of about 70ft a 100 would probably cover us and be the better choice.
anyone help me as we are stuck on dialup till I find out which would be the better wireless router for out problem.
Thanks.
Lee
Mac Mini 1.42 8X DVD+-RW Dual Layer 24X CD-RW 250 Gig Ministack Version 2 Mac OS X (10.4.7) Apple Bluetooth keyboard 19" Nec VGA CRT Flat Screen 1 Gig Memory iSight

There are of course several different options available to you.
One of many is this set-up here.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107454
Bear in mind that if you do not use an Airport Extreme Base (Router), The Router you use must be able to use WDS set-up to extend the network with Airport Express.
There are literaly 100s of different Routers on the Market from the various manufactures all of them make good products it is really hard to guage which has the best coverage area, I have had several and the Airport Extreme is by far and away the easiest to confiqure for Mac.
Good Luck with your choice.
One last thing many users cringe at the price of the Airport Extreme, but remember it is also a print server as well and if you fiqure each as a stand alone hardware it's cheap.
Don

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