ok heres a more expanded description of my setup

in my workshop i have several pcs running 98SE and i have several
ethernet appliances (munet electric meters) and instead of buying
wireless adapters for all of them, i want to use all thier existing
ethernet hardware and a spare wired router i have. the most cost
effective way to do this is set up a bridge in the workshop and connect
it to the WAN connection of the wired router and send all the shops
data thru the bridge over to my house.. i had a guy at dayton hamfest
explain how easy it would be to do it, and to the best of my abilities
i have done what he said. (i have a degree in electronics and computer
repair so i konw something about computers and networking), im just
still kinda new to the wireless side of things. i have played with usb
wireless G adapters in my house and they are soooooo easy to set up.
this guy at dayton said basically that you configure the bridge with
its software, let it find the network and finish config and it should
work. its frustrating because i can communicate with the bridge setup
web page but i cant surf the net thru it. and it sees my network at 40%
wich i should be able to atleast use a bridgea like a glorified usb
wireless adapter on one pc. hmmmmmmmmm......
i have had a wireless/wired network at home now for about a year with
minimal problems, its just real easy to setup. thats why this is
annoying me.