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is your 100 foot wire an el cheapo ? check its actually rated for cat5 or better.
shouldn't have any noticeable slowdown at 100ft, look at the advanced options in the network connection see if its getting a lot of errors.
also cheap ethernet cards could be a problem.
not all wireless nics work well with all AP's, i try to stick to one or two brands. i have linksys, intel and prism/orinocco here (with an airport card) i get occasional drops the worst i had was a belkin-prism card and AP, crap on a stick that was..
you'd probably more than likely want a wireless access point vs a wireless router if you already have a router, most APs have an 'uplink' port, which is wired differently and allows you to add to another hub/switch/router without a cross over cable(which are readily available if you need one) i don't think i've seen one that doesnt have an uplink port in a while.
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