Wireless router on a wired system

I have a wired network system using a Pass & Seymour router. I have roadrunner and have the roadrunner router going through the P&S router. I want to add a wireless router to my system so i can use my laptop. I currently have a WRT54GS V2 linksys router. What would be the best was to get this accomplished and also have it secured. When I attached the linksys wireless into the P&S router I reset the linksys router and performed a wireless network search and received 4 wireless networks. How can I tell which is mine, is any of them are, and how can I secure it ? I know its confusing. Im confused myself, as u can tell. Also the power light is flashing on the linksys router. Is it supposed to flash? Thanks for any help.

Press and hold the reset button at the back of the Linksys for 15 seconds then unplug it from the power. After a couple of seconds, plug it back again and check if power's still flashing.

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Hi modeski,
To setup your WRT54G2 router and make it work with your modem/router there, chnage first the IP of the WRT54G2 from 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.2.1 before you connect it to the modem/router.
In other words, you are cascading two routers.
Hope this help!

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It sounds like you want to be able to remotely admininister the entire network, via the Internet --- sorry, I don't know how to do that part of your problem.
However, the network setup itself sounds fairly simple:
It sounds like you want a network like this:
Modem ---- BEFSR41 ----- WRT54G   ))))) wireless computers
                          |                            |
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SSID: use a unique name (Note: do not use "linksys" )
SSID broadcast: enabled
encryption method: optional
encryption key: optional
If you want your wireless computers to only be able to access the Internet, and not each other, and not any printers or other network devices, then set "AP isolation" to "enabled" for this increased security.
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The "correct" device to use would be a wireless access point like the Linksys WAPs and not a WRT router. WRT routers are supposed to connect to the internet on its own.
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Sorry to be confusing. The SSID isn't set at
default. I know because I printed up the summary
page when done.
Then when you connected to "default", it was someone else's signal, right?
Okay, when I couldn't get online wireless, I plugged
the ethernet connector back in and went online that
way to try the online configuration. That was when I
briefly was able to access it using the browser at
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I think we have some confusion here. At least I'm confused. Are you sure you were using the ethernet interface? Turn the airport off when connecting to the router via ethernet, to me this sounds more like you were using airport, and switched. I assume you're referring to the router address. It would be good to be more specific.
Also, when the Airport somehow went to "default" it
also showed a full signal, but still no access.
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