Wireless and my new Macbook pro!

I have purchased a Macbook pro and am researching into wireless possibilities.
I have a netgear wired router (the DG834) and on the box it sais that it is recommended that I purchase the "netgear wg602" wireless access point for me to wirelessly use the internet around the house. ALL four of the RJ45 slots on my wired router have been taken up by my 4 computers. So typically I would lose one, if I went for the access point and it connected via one of the RJ45's?
Would this access point be picked up by the macbook pro and will it work?
Also on this access point how does it connect to my router - RJ45 or USB maybe?
Or should I just part with double the cost and buy the "DG834G" which has 54mbps wireless "g" built in?
And would that be okay in a medium sized house? Does the reception decrease when passing through multiple walls?
There is also a "DG834GT" which is 108mbps compatible, but the airport card in the macbook pro sais that its 54mbps, would there be any point me shelling out extra for this wireless router? Would there be an advantage?
Thanks!

WG602 would work, but may not be what you want:
* to connect 4 computers and wireless you would need another hub or switch since you're out of slots. It's probably easier to replace the router with a wireless router. You're right that the WG602 would take one of the RJ45 slots.
* distance and obstacles (e.g. walls) both interfere with the signal. As you get further away and go through more walls you'll get lower speed and maybe even intermittent results.
* there are several technologies that go faster than 54 Mbps. Of course you don't get that extra speed with a conventional 11g client such as the MBP, although they will talk to an 11g client. According to reviews by Tomsnetworking.com some of them go slower than a normal 11g AP when talking to an 11g client. Both those reviews and my experience suggest that you consider using an access point that uses Airgo MIMO technology. It uses multiple antennas and beam stearing to improve reception, even with a normal 11g client. (However you don't want to mix 11g and higher speed clients.) I use a Netgear Rangemax 240. It gets more consistent results through 2 walls than the Airport Extreme Base Station.

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