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I completely agree regarding the ease of setting up apple's routers.

I tried setting up a linksys router as a bridge, but it was a little bit tricky and required me to reset it once or twice before I got it setup.

A few days later I purchased an airport express for the airplay feature to connect it to my radio. I installed it at one location in my home and it was drop-dead simple to set it up as a bridge to the existing network.

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If you're stuck in a situation where you need to use a generic router as a wireless bridge or ethernet switch:

1. Give it a static IP on your local network (so you can find the web interface after step 2).

2. Disable DHCP on the router.

3. Plug your network into a LAN port on the router, instead of the WAN port.

Your router is now a dumb switch and access point. This works with most routers. While it can still technically route traffic to its WAN port, there's nothing plugged in there and it won't assume gateway status with no DHCP server.

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