Bridging two WRT300N access points

I already bought them because I was able to do this in older routers and thought I would not have an issue doing it. Please tell me I did not wate 260$ on routers I can not bridge. The link below is to a crude drawing of what i'm trying to do. Basically I want to connect two computers at a distance using the two WRT300N routers.
http://www.idlebyte.com/wrt300n.jpg
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Dustin

Hi , what you wanna do is not possible with the stock linksys firmware, and as per my knowledge,there is'nt a 3rd party firmware for the 300N

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