HOW DOES THE WIRELESS SIGNAL EXTENDER WORK?
You could have your router downstairs beaming a very strong wireless signal downstairs, but when you go upstairs that very strong wireless signal becomes very weak. In this scenario a booster would help. It would be in the weak signal upstairs room boosting that weak/poor signal.A wireless signal extender (booster) acts in a completely different way to an access point. Its only job is to wirelessly connect to your router's very strong wireless signal and boost it inside another room that is known to receive a poor/weak wireless signal. So to clarify.
INSTALLING THE WIRELESS SIGNAL EXTENDER
Here are the first steps to take before running the Installation CD:
- Make sure your router, computer and extender are all switched OFF and all next to each other
- Plug the extender's power supply unit (psu) into an electric socket with its other end going into the back of the extender
- Plug one end of the supplied ethernet cable into the extender and the other end into your computer
- Screw the two antennas on the extender and point the antennas towards the sky
- Switch your router on and wait until all of its lights are on
- Switch your computer on and wait two minutes after its desktop appears
- Switch the extender on and give it a couple of minutes to settle down
- Insert the extender's installation cd
When you have carried out the above steps and inserted the Installation CD you should then see the following autoplay message requester appear. If it doesn't appear you will need to explore the installation cd for the autorun setup file (not exampled here). In this example simply click on the RUN AUTORUN.EXE link to launch (run) the Installation Wizard.
Fig 1.0 - Click on the RUN AUTORUN.EXE link to continue
The first step of the Installation Wizard asks you to identify your particular model of the extender, so that it knows what Easy Setup Assistant to launch (Fig 1.2). Once you have identified your extender model hover the mouse pointer over its image, to bring up its menu-items, and then click on the EASY SETUP ASSISTANT menu-item to continue. In this example I am using the TL-WA830RE model.
Fig 1.1 - Click on the EASY SETUP ASSISTANT menu-item associated with your particular extender model
Clicking on the EASY SETUP ASSISTANT menu-item displays the first step (Welcome message) of the Easy Setup Assistant, launched by the Installation Wizard. At this point it is the Easy Setup Assistant that will guide you through the installation process. Just click on its STARTS button to continue.
Fig 1.2 - Click on the START button to continue
With the four next steps of the Easy Setup Assistant you can simply click on their NEXT buttons because they are only telling you how to plug in the cables and so on, just like I have mentioned above in my 8 pre-installation steps.
Fig 1.3 - Read the diagram, if need be, and then click on the NEXT button to continue.
Fig 1.4 - Read the diagram, if need be, and then click on the NEXT button to continue.
Fig 1.5 click on the NEXT button to continue.
Fig 1.6 click on the NEXT button to continue.
In Fig 1.5 above it is very important you double check that the lights on your extender are either flashing or steady as described in that diagram before you click on the NEXT button. Assuming they are, the next step (Fig 1.6 above) asks you to insert your extender's Default IP Address; which should be 192.168.0.254 - Check the label underneath, or on the side of, the extender for these details. In my case the Default IP Address was already inserted into the above window for me by the easy setup assistant; so I only needed to click on the NEXT button to continue.
Step 7 of the easy setup assistant (below) does a check-up of your network configuration with regards to installing/configuring the extender, to make sure everything is okay. In this example the Windows 7 firewall was blocking it from doing certain network/installation activities; hence why I had to click on the ALLOW ACCESS button of the Windows 7 security alert (firewall message requester) to continue.(ticked) the option called PRIVATE NETWORKS, SUCH AS MY HOME OR WORK NETWORK to make sure the extender would work with my home network.
Fig 1.7 The easy setup assistant is checking that all is well with your network setup
Fig 1.8 Allow easy setup assistant access to your network so it can install the extender properly
Fig 1.9 Network checks successful - Click on the NEXT button to continue
With the network checks successful (above) and the extender installed, but not fully configured yet, you will be presented with your router's wireless network name and settings; which in my case are from my Yoingco wireless network. Verify that these details are correct before clicking on the NEXT button. These router wireless network settings will be used to configure the extender's network settings.
Fig 1.10 Make sure these router wireless network settings are correct before clicking on the NEXT button
After a little more configuring the easy setup assistant will ask you to enter the router's wireless network password (below). Simply enter it and click on the NEXT button to continue. If you make a mistake (i.e. realise you have the wrong wireless network) you can click on the BACK button. In this example all was fine (Fig 1.12 below).
Fig 1.11 Enter the password of your router's wireless network before clicking on the NEXT button
Fig 1.12 Click on the NEXT button to submit these wireless network settings to the extender
At this point (Fig 1.12 above) you really need to make sure the wireless network settings you have entered above are for the wireless network you want the extender to use and connect to. If they are not, click on the BACK button to start over. Otherwise click on the NEXT button to complete the final stages of installation.
Fig 1.13 Click on the OK button to continue
Fig 1.14 Configuration complete - Click on the NEXT button to continue
Fig 1.15 Click on the FINISH button to exit the easy setup assistant
Fig 1.16 Click on the EXIT button and then on the YES button to exit the installation wizard
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