Pretty much the only routers that do this are the model you mention, and the older version of the SMC Barricade 7004AWBR. These two were actually built on the same assembly line and are identical in function, jjust with differnet branding on the outside.
Netgear makes one but it is expensive ($200 plus) -- my solution was to hook my new wireless G router to my Di713p as follows.
1) DI 713P set to channel 1, Fixed IP 192.168.0.1, DHCP disabled.
2) Dlink DI-624 set to channel 11, Fixed ID 192.168.1.1, Subnet 255.255.0.0 DHCP enabled. The subnet setting is important as is getting the channels a ways apart from each other! Other new routers should be able to work similarly to the DI-624 that I used.
3) Ethernet cable connecting WAN port on DI-624 connected to a LAN port on the DI-713p (this way the DI-713p is only used for internet connections).
My wired clients are wired direct to the new router and get ip address from it by DHCP.
My wireless clients are set to associate to Wireless G networks only (or you could set the order to be your new router first then the old router -- problem is if the B signal was stronger you still might connect there).
For wireless communication within the house everything is at 802.11G speed to the new router and then either at 802.11G or ethernet speed to my other clients.
When it goes to the internet it is at 802.11G speed to the new router and then at wired ethernet speed to the old router and then at modem speeds so all in all this really doesn't slow down anything noticably compared to 802.11B to the DI713P that I used to have.
(I currently don't use the printer port on my 713P -- as I described this the printer port may work correctly but if it doesn't you would need to a port for it on the firewall config for the new router (the old firewall in the 713P would still keep printer operations from going out on the internet.)
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Netgear makes one but it is expensive ($200 plus) -- my solution was to hook my new wireless G router to my Di713p as follows.
1) DI 713P set to channel 1, Fixed IP 192.168.0.1, DHCP disabled.
2) Dlink DI-624 set to channel 11, Fixed ID 192.168.1.1, Subnet 255.255.0.0 DHCP enabled. The subnet setting is important as is getting the channels a ways apart from each other! Other new routers should be able to work similarly to the DI-624 that I used.
3) Ethernet cable connecting WAN port on DI-624 connected to a LAN port on the DI-713p (this way the DI-713p is only used for internet connections).
My wired clients are wired direct to the new router and get ip address from it by DHCP.
My wireless clients are set to associate to Wireless G networks only (or you could set the order to be your new router first then the old router -- problem is if the B signal was stronger you still might connect there).
For wireless communication within the house everything is at 802.11G speed to the new router and then either at 802.11G or ethernet speed to my other clients.
When it goes to the internet it is at 802.11G speed to the new router and then at wired ethernet speed to the old router and then at modem speeds so all in all this really doesn't slow down anything noticably compared to 802.11B to the DI713P that I used to have.
(I currently don't use the printer port on my 713P -- as I described this the printer port may work correctly but if it doesn't you would need to a port for it on the firewall config for the new router (the old firewall in the 713P would still keep printer operations from going out on the internet.)
Let me know if this works for you,