Can purchasing a second wireless router allow you to have two networks?

I already have a netgear branded router connected to my modem. Can I create a seperate network within my house with one of Apple's airport stations (any one of the three, not sure which one I'm getting yet) by using the internet connection from my current router? I.e can I connect the airport base station to my current router (either wirelessly or wired) and allow it to broadcast a seperate network and share the same internet connection?

Can purchasing a second wireless router allow you to have two networks?
Yes, it can.
If you connect an Ethernet cable from one of the LAN <-> ports on your Netgear router to the WAN "O" port on an Apple AirPort router, you can configure the AirPort router to create a separate wireless network using a different wireless network name and password.

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I had my network set up until I had intermittent loss of the internet. So I received a new Verizon router and I cannot figure out how to use the second wireless router which I used to have working just fine.
The new Verizon router is the Actiontec MI424WR and it is installed in my basement and the signal is weak. However there is a cat5 wire snaked up from the Actiontec router to my home office. Currently that is plugged into the back of my computer for internet acess. My second router is the Trendnet 300Mbps Wireless N Home router. ANd this is the router that I would like to use (and used to use) to trasmit the internet connection throughout the house as well as use for a wired connection to my home security system.
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Want to add second wireless router to network

I have a Actiontec MI424WR and would like to add a second wireless router, a Linksys Cisco E2000 which has N capabilities. What is the best way to add this second router so that they both work as wireless routers? Thank you for your help.

If I'm not mistaken, they can leave the SSID on both access points to be the same. You just don't want them to run on the same channel. The devices with either setup see an Access Point by it's MAC Address. It should have no problem roaming onto another Access point if one starts to get too weak for the device's liking. Even with separate SSIDs, that will still happen.
What the above poster means by setting up the Linksys as an Access Point is the following:
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4: Set both the ActionTec and Linksys to separate channels, either 1, 6, or 11. It's best to keep them off each other's ranges due to the distance between the two APs. The Linksys should only be set to use 20Mhz wide channels for Wireless N. DO NOT OPERATE IT ON AUTO/40MHZ!
5: Connect the Linksys to the ActionTec by plugging the Linksys into the network using one of the LAN Ports. Do not use the Internet port on the Linksys!
Just keep in mind, if you do set up the Linksys to run on the same SSID as the ActionTec, the security settings (Key, Encryption type, MAC filtering) must be identical. If you go down the separate SSID route as mentioned above, you're free to keep the security settings separate. Just keep in mind my pointer with WPA2, though.
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Add second wireless router

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802.11g AirPort Extreme Base Station -> 802.11n Time Capsule
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