I have been having a heck of time connecting two routers together. Here is the setup. One laptop, wired/wireless connection. One iPad 2. Zyxel DSL Modem that is also a wired router. NEW Asus RT-N16.

So my dad has gotten it into his head that WEP is too insecure to tolerate (despite living in a sparsely populated and quiet suburban area). So he bought a new router which supports WPA, but then ...

While they can function as an access point, an extra router has far more utility than that ...