[David]

I can't find a good answer to this online so I thought I'd go to the Pelican brain trust.

My situation is the cable line comes into a back bedroom and connects to a cable modem then connects to a wireless router. The room is too far from the rest of the house to give good wireless range so I have the wireless router placed out in the middle of the upstairs. This leave cables running all over upstairs to connect my son's gaming computer, a connection out to the garage, and extra lines for my son's friends when they have a LAN party.

What I'd like to have is the cable modem connected to a wired router in the same bedroom so the cables are kept mainly in that room. Then a single wire would go out to a wireless hub in the middle of the house.

I'm pretty computer illiterate so I don't how to keep from having IP address conflicts and too many firewalls and any other problems with connecting a standard wireless router to a regular wired router (or is it a switch?).