Sorry I missed the direction of your thread
Maybe it is pure economics - there appears to be very little difference between the price of access points and routers - eg. on Novatech they have
Linksys WRT54G Router (
http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/s...tml?LIN-WRT54G) for £51.32
Linksys WAP54G Access Point (
http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/s...tml?LIN-WAP54G) for £48.03
So you can save £3 by not having the router and firewall!
It probably does not make economic sense for Netgear to run a separate product line which sells for nearly the same as the router. (BTW, I'm not a sales or production manager!!!)
Thats my opinion anyway!
As to your own situation I guess you could either -
1. go ad-hoc (with associated problems)
2. get the router and put it on your internal network - not ideal but the WAN port would get an IP from your existing DHCP server and then serve it's own DHCP range to the wireless clients.
HTH