Can you ping on a macbook? :P secondly, we are in a massive cabin at the end of the first house's garden (awesome little house it is) :P so the first router is in the big house, and the second router is in our cabin because we are no where near the first router. So yeah we will most likely have this second router all the time until we move out pretty much.

Also, whilst connected to the second router, I turned wireless off on here, and I still have access to the internet, when I type in the first router ip for the settings it comes up. So I can directly access it through the second router. But basically, we can't connect directly to the router, cause we're pretty much not allowed to touch that other than port forwarding.
Basically the only computers we can connect are both macbooks and they have to be connected through the second router. This one is already connected via ethernet cable in order to do the setup stuff on the second router.