Unsecured router connected to secured router = insecure?


There's a lot of ridiculousness that led up to my decision to try to do
this but basically...my primary wireless router is my Netgear WGT624v3
which is plugged into my cable modem. Then I have a second wireless
router (Linksys Wireless-B BEFW11S4) connected to my Netgear from LAN
port to LAN port. The internet seems to work on both. My motivation
for doing this was that for whatever reason other people in my house
can't connect to any wireless networks that have security (or at least
WPA) set on them, but I definitely want WPA2-AES set on my wireless for
security. So my netgear is secured and the linksys is unsecured so that
both interests can access the same internet connection.

My main question is, does having the unsecured wireless router
connected to my secured wireless router compromise the security? If so
is there a way to isolate the linksys so that it doesn't compromise
security but can still access the internet?

Any info would be appreciated, thanks!

BTW, it's of no importance for any services like port forwarding or
anything to successfully work on the unsecured linksys router, just web
access.


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