Home nw w/ two distinct wireless signals

I've got a AEBS (gigabit) and and WRT54G. I've got the WRT54G set up as a router (not gateway) device, attached to the AEBS, broadcasting a G-only signal (unique SSID to reflect this).
I'm doing this so I can set up the AEBS for N-Only access (again, unique SSID to reflect this).
My question is this: if I were to set both devices to the same SSID, would my MBP automatically connect to the WRT54G becuase of better signal strength or would it automatically "prefer" the AEBS because of the better connection speed?

My guess ( and only a guess) is that you would see two wireless networks with the same SSID, but since they have different MAC address's, they would connect differently. If the WRT54G is in bridge mode you would still have two different access points. I don't think it would prefer one over the other. Which ever you joined last.... Couldn't hurt to experiment.
Label one AEBSn and AEBSg ?

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