Add wireless switch into a wired network

I have a dlink modem, connected to a dlink 8 port router, on which 1 port is connnected to a 5 port switch 2 of which then goes out to various places.
All up there is a server 7 pc's, a laptop and an xbox360 connected with some vacant points in the house. It all works Perfectly.
What i want is another xbox360 in the furtherest part of the house.
I thought to say running more cable in the roof i would try and connect a wireless switch to the router.
Is this going to work? A wireless switch connected to a wired router?

Check out laserfloyd's post about wireless access pointin this forum. he has this web page that should help you.

http://kbserver.netgear.com/kb_web_files/n101496.asp

If you buy a wireless access point instead of a wireless router, you don't have to jump through any of the hoops on that page. It's just a matter of plugging it in, setting up the security (most of them these days come with a tool on CD to help with that, otherwise there's always the web page interface) and you're done.

If you like the D-Link stuff then that's the DWL-G700AP, but all the consumer networking manufacturers should have something suitable.

personally this is what i do when working with wireless. first in my area charter cable is one company and from the install i have done with them they dont have wireless modems just dumb high speed modems.

i work a lot with centurytels dsl and the modems they send out are basically routers which can give out ips thru dhcp. i also use mostly linksys wireless routers.

so on the dsl modem i disable the dhcp and then set it to bridge then i connect the linksys wireless to the dsl modem and configure all ids and passwords thru the linksys and setup any security thru the linksys. it works and its easy. if i need to add more ports to the wireless i just get a 10/100 switch connect it to any port and boom its up and running.

all you have to do is disable DHCP on the wireless router, change the ip to something different. For example if it is a linksys by default it is 192.168.1.1, so change it to 192.168.1.2. Then connect the lan port of the wireless router to one of the ports on your switch. I have one set up in the same manner.

never done it that way on the wireless router side of things. guess i just prefer disabling dhcp on the router and have everything go thru the wireless side of things that way i can make changes easily to the wireless security side of things.