Our house is designed like three train cars strung together (so we could pour a slab to follow flat ground and avoid pier and beam construction on a hilly lot). I have a new ASUS wifi router wired into the modum, which is located about one third of the way into the house. It projects a wifi signal well to about half the house. Then about two-thirds of the way into the house, I have a new Netgear range extender that takes in the signal from the AUSUS router wirelessly and projects it out to the bedroom wing wirelessly. So it's wirelss in, wireless out. Unfortunately, the wifi signal is weak in the farthest room. I was born in the '50s so I am no genius at this, but it seems logical that if I hardwired the extender to the ASUS router (or to the modem itself?), then the extender would be getting a stronger signal (through a wire) and could project out its wifi signal with greater strength, right? But my Netgear extender does not have a port for accepting a wired signal. It only takes in the signal wirelessly. It has 4 port for sending a signal out -- but not the other way around. There is a wire already run through the walls to a small bedroom near where I have the extender placed now, but I don't have anything plugged into it. Is my theory right and if so, what device should I buy to replace my Netgear extender? Or is there a better solution to the problem of a room with weak or no wifi? Thank you.
Hi James, the wireless extender is the best way but you should go for the plug in type.....this plugs into the mains and gives you wifi and 1 wired connection, so you can plug into the room you want wifi to reach, I have linked a Netgear option but there are others! EX2700
SOURCE: 2 Wire DSL Wireless modem range expander
you might want to try to change the wireless channel 1. open your internet browser 2. type on the address bar 192.168.1.254/management or 172.168.0.1/management and press Enter 3. type your system password (modem password) 4. go to home network -> wireless 5. change your wireless channel to 9 - 10 if after changing the channel it still wont work please check for EMI (Electro Magnetic Interference) such as electric appliances, hallucinogen lamps, WIRELESS PHONES, satellite dish and or alarm systems. also make sure that you dont put your router on a carpet. usually a good distance between your router and the computer is around 5 - 20 feet with no walls between them since walls also contribute on the interference. one last note, keep your router away from water i.e. aquariums, water dispenser and the like since water contributes to the interference of the wireless signal
SOURCE: airlink ar430w not giving a network address to netgear wpn111
Try assigning the IP address manually. To do so go to Network Connections, right click on the wireless connection and click on Properties, select Internet Protocol TCP/IP and click on Properties again. Select use the following IP address and type the address of the same range as of your Router's IP. In case you do not know the range try 192.168.1.5 or 172.16.1.5 with the subnet mask as 255.255.255.0 for both, and when you use the IP as 192.168.1.5 use the default gateway as 192.168.1.1 and for 172.16.1.5 use the default gateway as 172.16.1.1 Also select the lower option as "Use following DNS Server address" and for 192.168.1.5 use 192.168.1.1 and for 172.168.1.5 use 172.16.1.1 .Click on Ok. Click on Ok again and now check for the connectivity.
SOURCE: Linksys WRE54G
after hooking the linksys router to the modem hit the reset button on modem. this will allow it to set it up in dhcp and recognize its mac address.
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SOURCE: Is the Linksys WRE54G Repeater compatible with the AT&T 2701HG-B
Hi Friend
Its been really unfortunate that the money you have spent is wasted. The main disadvantage of linksys repeater is that these devices are compatible only with linksys routers. There is a seldom chance that these can be compatible with other vendor routers.
Regards
Chiranjeet
SOURCE: can't get on line with my Linksys wireless router
you can daisy chain ..but you will need an eithernet run from the fios router to the linksys...
Please note that the Tenda 150mbps Wireless Range Extender A3 uses a default IP address of 192.168.0.254 - you must set your IP address to the 192.168.0.* range (* = any number between 2 and 253) to login. Please note that the Tenda 150mbps Wireless Range Extender A3 uses a default IP address of 192.168.0.254 - you must set your IP address to the 192.168.0.* range (* = any number between 2 and 253) to login.157 views
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