Problem when setting up WRE54G Linksys Range Expander manually.?

Question

I have attempted to set up the WRE54G via the cd but with no joy. It doesn't want to use the cd.

So I decided to set it up manually. I used this link http://www.tomsguide.com/us/how-to,review-308.html to help me. It worked up to stage 9. Once I set up the WPA security, I pressed ok on the window that popped up, and everything crashed. I checked the wireless networks and no security came up on the network for the expander. Also the link LED stayed red on the actual wre54g.

I managed it before with my linksys router, but now I've had to change it nothing works!

My router is 192.168.0.1, its a sky sagem wireless router f@st 2420.

I changed my WAN to 192.168.1.239 in order to see my expander. I then changed my expander to 192.168.0.40 so that my router and computers and expander can talk to each other!! After changed WAN back to 192.168.0.9

Please help.

Answer 1

Wow.. what a mess.

First of all, if your routers WAN port is connected to the internet, you shouldn't change that. It needs to get an IP from your modem or from your ISP depending on how they're setup. And rarely do they dish out 192.168.0.x IP's.

Once you change that back to DHCP, your computers will be able to get on the internet again.

Now, for your expander, it's probably plugged into one of the ports on your router correct?

Give it an IP address of something like 192.168.0.220. Now your computers can see it, it sees the router, etc.

Unless you have more than 1 router, everything should be on the same IP address range.. 192.168.0.x or 1.x.. You can't just mix it all up and hope it works.