can you be more specific about the setup you are trying to achieve? i am assuming that the Netgear is in a different room connected to the Belkin with an ethernet cable, is this what you have going on?

the simplest method is to have the Belkin setup to be a DHCP server... then to make the Netgear work in client mode you should enable it as a DHCP client... the Netgear should then automatically receive its IP address and gateway over the ethernet connection from the Belkin...

Okay, here's a diagram of what i wish to do. The Mac and netgear are in a seperate room that is far too far away to run an ethernet cable to, and i need to connect the mac wirelessly by using the access point.

The other computers (windows) will either connect to the belkin router or the netgear (whichever gives best results)

http://i411.photobucket.com/albums/p...tor/bridge.jpg

Here's a screen shot from the Netgear set up page, im not sure which IP address and gateway to put in here...

http://i411.photobucket.com/albums/p...or/bridge2.jpg

Ah - does your Mac not have an Airport card?
Is that why you aren't just connecting it (directly) to the wireless network provided by the Belkin?

Nope no card, and it being an Imac means no PCI slots or anything... thought this would be the cheapest way.
So should i put the IP and gateway of the belkin in the spaces? Although finding that out might be tricky because i cant seem to get into setup on for the belkin anymore :mad:

Your Cable Modem plugged into a Wireless Router provide your wireless network. Additionally If you have something that can not be connected to the router directly and does not directly support wireless... Say a usb or ethernet printer, scanner, or game console, or a computer that has no wifi you can use something like an Apple Express that has an Ethernet bridge capability that allows a single device to be bridged from its wired connection to a wireless network. This requires no configuration of the router generally nor does it generally require and configuration of the printer, game console etc.

I have an Ethernet printer I use that way, a Dell 3100CN that is mated to my Airport Express.

The other type of bridging is to extend an existing network. The issue with this is that frequently only the same brand of equipment can be extended aka WDS mode etc.

I think what you are confusing is Access Point mode of routers with WDS or bridging. Access point only lets you take an existing wired network and make it wireless. It does not take a wireless network and join it to another wireless network.

Your best solution is to buy an airport express n $99 new or $69 refurb and be done with it. There are other bridges but most are still G, and there all pretty close to the same price point. If the netgear is to work it would live next to your computer plugged in via ethernet and be set to the point to point bridging mode you should need to set the ip only name of the wireless network to join to.

actually from a quick look at the manuals for the equipment, what the OP is trying to achieve may well be possible with his/her setup... in fact there is a diagram in the manual for the Netgear which shows more or less exactly the desired configuration, with the Netgear in client/infrastructure mode...

does this mean you have been already able to access the internet with a computer connected wirelessly to the Netgear wg602v3?

Actually no, for a brief moment i thought i did , but i was actually connecting to my nextdoor neighbours Netgear router :p (the SSID's are the same)

Although something happend that has made my router useless, cant get into setup or get internet access from it. Dont know why, im using someone elses router for the time being.
Does it sound like something is wrong with my belkin if i cant get into set up, or even perform a 'hard reset' ?

If you set it in Client mode, and now you can't log into the router, try to remember what numbers you put in for the "IP Address" and "IP Subnet Mask" field. You will need to set your Mac's ethernet interface to Manual Configuration and put in similar numbers.

Well i think i tried that, ill try again though (i made a note of all addresses i used)
I'm going to try and get it to work with my PC before i attempt to do the same with the Mac though