On Sat, 15 Dec 2012 08:00:07 -0000, David WE Roberts wrote:

I have ordered a TP Link router and will let you all know how I get
on!

Hope this does what you want :-)
Be prepared for potential issues if you intended to share files or
printers between the kitchen and the office.

There should be no problem as long as file sharing is enabled and
that's no big deal.

Just to be clear that is a setting for individual files/directories on
the computer that has the files not an AP or router setting. Reasonably
sure that more recent versions of 'doze have a "public" directory which
has file sharing turned on by default you just drag files into that
directory tree to share them.

File sharing across an AP should be O.K.
File sharing through a NAT router might be a little more difficult - a
while since I've played with cascaded NAT routers.

Through an AP shouldn't be any trouble I don't think it'll work through
NAT (Network Address Translation not what some one said earlier), at
least not without some jiggerey pokery. If Charlie has bought a router
rather than just an access point I see two options:

1) Plug the ethernet cable into the routers WAN port and configure the
router into bridge mode (ie turn off NAT).

2) If the router has a built in switch plug the ethernet cable into one
of the LAN ports. A gotcha here is the physical wiring one might need a
cross over cable (or choose an "uplink" port). Many things these days are
autosensing and sort it out themselves.

Charlie what device have you actually bought?

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Cheers
Dave.