title: How to install a wifi n router as "invisible"?
body: <p>All right I admit that it seems like a weird question, and keep in mind (in case you didn't understand it already by the question) I am really not a networking guy, but let me explain:</p>
  
  <p>I work in an office with one (that's right) wall mounted female Ethernet port per desktop PC (about 4 total...all on different sides of the room). This port not only provides Internet access but it also provides access for all desktop  PCs to the network for the rest of the building (Alas, I have no direct access to this network, nor I know anything about it).</p>
  
  <p>As I am an external consultant I really don't need/care about the network resources but I do need Internet access for various tasks. I work with a laptop and there is WiFi provided by the company, but as it turns out the desk where I have to sit at is barely in range of this company provided Access Point. Signal is lost often, and I waste hours upon hours trying to get logged back on when I get dropped out. However, my desk is extremely close to one of these wall mounted ports, on which the office's boss computer is plugged into.</p>
  
  <p>So I thought, "Hey, I'll just buy and hoop-up a simple little router to the wall plug and connect both my computer and the boss' computer to the router using good ol' fashioned Ethernet cables (both in a straight-through configuration). Problem solved!"</p>
  
  <p>And it worked like a charm. Or so I thought. </p>
  
  <p>See, the problem is that the boss computer suddenly disappeared from the network (while keeping full Internet functionality, as I did) and as my famously good luck would have it, that computer has some important resources that are needed from the rest of the team/building. Ironically, I was the only one that could see the boss computer on my network because we were connected through the router.</p>
  
  <p>As the local tech support guy explained it, the boss PC could not be found on the network because it had a different IP address which wasn't recognized (these were the actual words he used). Alas, he didn't notice my little router so I unplugged it and fixed the problem for him without him even noticing it.</p>
  
  <p>Maybe the simple diagram below will illustrate better the situation at hand:</p>
  
  <pre><code>  Original Configuration:
  
  
     ____  Wall mounted Female RJ-45 Plug
    | [] |
    ''''''                      [MyLaptop(with crappy WiFi)]
      ||                 
      ^^^^^^^^^[BossPC]
  
    -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  
    Modified Configuration using TP-Link TL-WR740N N Wireless Router:
  
  
     ____  Wall mounted Female RJ-45 Plug
    | [] |
    ''''''                ^^^^^^^^^[MyLaptop]
      ||                  ||
      ||                  ||---------------------------------
      ||                 (Tp-Link TL-WR740N N Wireless Router)
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''^^^^^^^^^^^[BossPC]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Keep in mind that for now I disabled WiFi completely while configuring the router since I don't need it.</p>
  
  <p>My question is the following:</p>
  
  <p>Is there a way, or a specific set of configuration settings I must use to make it so that I can use this router hard wired as shown above, but that would look "transparent" to the rest of the network? (By "transparent" I mean in a way that my Boss PC can still be viewed by everybody just like it did in the Original Configuration)</p>