Help Required Setting up a Network with 2 Wireless Routers

My network is based on 2 hubs:
Room 1 - Main Hub
Phone socket (where line enters my house)
Modem
WRT610N router
Homeplug connected by ethernet cable to router
Room 2 - Media Centre
Homeplug
Netgear DG834G v1
Room 2 includes a NAS and media streamer wired to the DG834G, which as I understand it still need to talk via the WRT610N. I'd like to upgrade my network further and remove the weakest point (currently Homeplugs) and therefore improve connectivity between hub 1 and 2. In upgrading, I want everytthing to have gigabit ethernet ports, but for the 2 hubs to be connected only via wireless link (wired link may be possible in long term, but not at present).
I have already taken the step of purchasing a 2nd WRT610N, but am now unsure if the link can be established between the 2 of them without using a cable connection. Does anyone know if/ how this can be achieved, or do I need to buy something else?

Linksys firmware does not have feature to make the router work as an wireless access point.You can try the dd-wrt firmware.For more information about that,you can visit www.dd-wrt firmware.
You have two alternative here..First is Wireless Bridge(WET610N),which will communicate with the router wirelessly and it it will provide the LAN Connection further.You can connect a switch to the bridge and all other devices hard-wired to the bridge to get connection...However,it will not give you the Wireless Signal.
The Seconds alternative in my opinion is an Access Point(WAP4410N)...Which will receive the wireless signal from your router and will repeat the signal wirelessly to your Wireless devices if set in a Repeater Mode.

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Here's the question: How do I name them the same so that the devices will switch effortlessly to the stongest signal? I understand it involves switching the "channels" but don't know how to do it right now. Currently, everything works, so I don't want to mess it up tinkering. Another caveat- there are several other wireless networks from neighbors houses that I can "see". I jsut downloaded a program called iStumbler that shows the channels, but not sure what to do with that info.
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OK.. sounds like a mess.. or at least messy and the previous people should have left a log book with all the IP address info in it.. you have far too many routers.. but from here it is impossible to tell how they are configured. Most are probably just setup as AP.
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Sorry, would love to go into fine detail about this but I'm a little tired and frustrated at this point.
I'm basically having the same problem as robosapien. I just want to create this simple configuration :-
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Do I need to somehow change the location of my Macbook configuration to read something like: "Jim's computer/mrbarth" or "Jim's computer.mrbarth"?
Sorry for not understanding this. I am sure it is very easy and I just have one thing in the chain wrong. I am still a newbie on this even though I have been at the keyboards for over 10 years.

First, you need to try logging into his admin account and trying to print. If that works then most likely there's something he must configure for the account you normally log into on his computer to allow a remote user to print.
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