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The issue is that what you really want is an Access Point, but home Routers are more-readily available and cost less. A Router wants to route traffic from one network (i.e., 192.168.1.x) to another (i.e., 192.168.20.x, or 10.0.0.x). Most Routers will refuse to work or will respond in an odd manner if you try to configure them to route on to the same network. Most home Routers can be tricked into working as Access Points, as noted in previous comments, by connecting the incoming Ethernet cable to one of the LAN switch ports, and NOT the WAN port.

Do NOT give the WAN port an address on your home network; use some different fixed IP. You are not going to use that port anyway, and that will prevent the router from becoming confused. Go ahead and give the new Router a LAN address outside the DHCP the range of the primary Router. You can either disable DHCP on the new Router or just set its DHCP range so that there is no overlap with the DHCP range of the primary router. That way, the primary router will assign addresses out of one pool, while the new Router assigns out of another, and there will be no conflicts.

The wireless speed difference can be explained by the fact that your new Router is 802.11N, while your old one is probably 802.11G. The new one has a theoretical link speed of 300 MBPS, while the old one has a speed of 54 MBPS. Actual speeds step down from there.

The fact that Windows wants to reboot after an update is not nearly so much of an aggrevation to me as its incessant nagging every few minutes to ‘Reboot Now?’ Most of the flaws being patched have been around for quite some time, and the way I see it, waiting a few more hours until I go to lunch or the end of my workday is not a big deal. When I make the mistake of loading a patch which ultimately requires a reboot, then those nags impact my ability to keep working and ultimately force me to go ahead and stop what I’m doing and wait for the reboot. I would really appreciate it if Windows would accept ‘Reboot Later’ as really meaning later and allow me to wait 1 hour, 2 hours, or 4 hours, etc. without constantly interrupting my work.

Adobe can be even worse, in that in addition to its nags, Acrobat often will not accept a system shutdown followed by a startup the next day in place of the ‘Restart’ it wants.