Working of Wireless Repeater/Expander is like this device will receive signals from Wireless Access Point (Wireless Router) and repeat the same signal. So the available signal range doubles. In this tutorial I am going to write steps to configure or install one of the famous Range Expander - Linksys WRE54G on your network.
Range ExpanderSteps to configure WRE54G to boost your wireless signals
The steps to configure wireless Range Expander on your computer network are:
1. Connect Range Expander to your computer using Ethernet cable.
2. On the Address bar of your browser type 192.168.1.240
The default IP address of Linksys Wireless Range expander is 192.168.1.240. After this press enter.
3. Log on to the setup page of WRE54G
The default user name:
Default Password : admin
There is no default user name for WRE54G and log on to the Range Expander setup page.
4. Enter the Wireless details present in the Wireless Access Point
We should enter the same details configured in the source wireless Access Point.
If the Wireless network is security enabled we need to set the same settings on our Range Expander. After entering the details click on save settings button. To learn how to configure Linksys Router click on the link below: How to Setup Linksys Wireless Router.
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13 comments:
nice article, very informative and helpful...
Thank you for comment
I must be missing something, but in step 1 you say to connect it using an ethernet cable, but the WRE54G doesn't have an ethernet port on the device. At least mine doesn't.
Hi John,
It seems you have WRE54Gv1 (Wireless Range Expander ). This version of linksys range expander does not have any ethernet port. So the only option to configure it is by the auto config button.
Setup Linksys Range Expander v1 (WRE54G v1) using auto config button
1. You should disable security in Wireless router / Access point
2. Place your range expander (WRE54G) near your router
3. Press auto config button for one min (till the status led color changes)
4. Login to to Range expander (you may shut down your router first)
5. Enable wireless security in Linksys range expander
6. Enable security in Wireless router
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Good post
was unclear about ssid should be a new one or the same.
What about wpa tkip and wpa2 tkip ???
It is the same SSID
wpa is a wireless encryption
Thanks Alot....
Thanks Ibrahim for your comment.
Hi,
Can I use Linksys Range expander with Belkin modem/router
Zuhait
Technically there is no problem with using Linksys Range expander and Belkin wireless router. Both should support WDS and the wireless standards (802.11 g/b/a/n)
hi
ihave a WRE54g v3, bur cannot find it home screen, whether cables or wifi please can someboby help!
the modem is not mine its ny neighbours, for whith i pay him for access,but because of the distance between us im only getting 24 mbps, ihave the wep key and thaat works only on the dongle/modem
I hope by home you mentioned the web based setup page of WRE54G Linksys Range expander.
The default login IP of Linksys Range Expander is 192.168.1.240 but you might had changed the Range Expander IP address during the configuration. If that is the case you can do either one of the following solutions.
1. Try to remember the login IP
or
2. Reset and reconfigure the Range Expander
How to Reset a Range Expander
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