Why I buy this one ?
- Dimensions - 1.1 x 7.4 x 6.9 in (H x W x D)
- Wireless Standard - IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11g
- Security WEP - 64/128 bit WEP

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What our customer's say!

"WRE54G Review", Works good. Used it to get my brother-in-law off his kitchen table, and back into the office. The router was down stairs in his kid's flat. His wife cooked me a great dinner for that. Used another one to get my wife out of my office, and upstairs, so I didn't have to listen to her on the phone while she was surfing the web. Well worth the cost in both cases.

"Easy set up - on a Mac.", I read many of the reviews which contained "extra" instructions for set up. I soon realized they pertained to PC set ups. Once the 2 devices discovered each other - I did have to change the SSID on the base back to the default, "linksys" - the Mac and it's Airport software did the rest. Great signal strength throughout the house now!

"Excellent Network Expander", Easy to use and set up. Read many reviews and was weary because a lot people really made it seem like it was an impossible task without help from CS. I am above average netwrok user, but still found no problems in just inserting the disk and following the directions. It only took me several minutes and now I have no deadspots in my home and still have security for my network.

"Easy set up if not using encrytion", This range expander works great if you are running an open network. If you are using encrytion is difficult. Use the tip above about disabling your encrytion before installing the extender and then reset it. Once installed, the increased range is notable and worth the price.

"bought 2 over the past 2 years - each one broke", The good thing about this box is that it's pretty small and has 2 power options. You can plug this right into the wall outlet and it stays flat and out of the way. You can also use a power cord option.
It is fairly easy to set up. After a year using one, it started having issues keeping the wireless connection up to the access router. After powercycling a few times the thing finally just died. You would plug the ethernet cable into it and the blue link light would go dim. In another case it would be bright at first and then shut off completely. In a 3rd case after powercycling, the link light would turn red. Either way the box was just dead. Resetting it did nothing and I could not get access to it anymore. I bought a 2nd one, and after a year similar issues happened. I think the unit has some kind of power design flaw. It cannot take multiple powercycles, or there is something else about it unknown to me. But I would not recommend it. Perhaps a router/bridge combo that can perform wireless bridging to act essentially as a repeater would be a better choice.

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"Not an Easy Set-up Using WEP", With 3 cinderblock walls between the wireless router and my computer, this was a very attractive product.

I had lots of difficulty setting this up with WEP encryption already active on my network. I had to turn off WEP and use the automatic configuration to get it to work, hoping to use the web based utility to then add WEP back. The automatic confiiguration worked like a charm, but it was very difficult to add the WEP. It took 2 e-mails and 30 minutes on the phone to get it to work.

Kudos to the service department, though. I received a follow-up phone call after the second e-mail and the representative gave me the 800 number (800-325-7114. I could not find it on their web site.) I'm not sure that e-mails alone would have worked.

Anyhow, it is working fine now using 128 bit encryption.

"A Tale of Two Expanders", This is the second expander I have purchased, both of which had the same firmware revision. With the first one, I attempted to join it to my WEP-enabled network that also had MAC Address filtering enabled. It took over three hours on the phone with Linksys to get the expander to recognize my network and required changing my router's timing settings. Since the unit was such a pain to configure, I ended up giving it to my parents who had a WAP network with no MAC filtering. We reset the expander to factory defaults, configured it as instructed ,and were up and running within 30 minutes. Automatic detect didn't work on their network, but 30 minutes was a more reasonable configuration time. I bought another unit for the myself when we added another computer to our house. I reset my router to factory defaults, enabled WAP encryption, and was able to join this extender within 30 minutes. We did not have to change any timings this time around. Given the trouble recognizing a WEP-enabled network and the fact that the auto-detech functionality didn't work, I will only give the expander three stars. Now that it is configured, it's working flawlessly.

"Huge Hassle in a Box", This is my first review, so lower your expectations on my forthcoming ramblings. And now lower your expectations on this product. The setup for this may have been the most complicated i have experienced with anything. GRANTED, I am not a computer guy, but I have a friend who is, and received his help. After the long debacle that unfolded, I compensated him with a lil $ and a meal for surviving the horrors we encountered. After an hour or 2 of attempting to get this to link my to my brother's weak wireless signal (100+ ft. away across a backyard) sent from his Linksys modem/router thingee,(model # cwg600? ish?), we finally established a connection verified by the blue lights on the unit itself. HOWEVER, even though this unit was talking to my brother's modem, i could not get the INTERNET for my ps3, (which has since been given ydl linux 5.0 os), because the connection was local access only. After receiving NO? help from linksys tech support for an hour (if there was any help given, we could not decode it b/c the accent of phone tech was indecipherable-- not their fault, but no help, either), I was ready to throw in the towel. My friend was not. He offered to take it home to try and link it to his system. I decided that i wanted one last shot. On the box of the unit was a picture of a wireless access point do-hickey with which the expander was supposed to work. After a quick trip to the local electronics store (and Taco Bell b/c we were starving), we hooked the Linksys WAP54G? wireless access point directly to my brother's modem via an ethernet cable. After just a couple of minutes we were easily able to get the expander to recognize the $80 wap. My PS3 was magically granted the internet and the ability to write this wonderous review b/c I took a stab in the dark (no thanks to linsys support- who promised to call back yet never did- I wasn't holding my breath...) by buying a seperate piece of equipment. The expander works alright now- sometimes, although not often,it loses connection with the wap (evidenced by a red light) and automatically finds it again after a few to several seconds. On some occations i have to unplug the expander for a moment to get the connection back quickly.
To make a long story short, if you are trying to connect this range expander to something other than the linksys modem or wap written on the box, you will need a copious amount of know-how, patience, and perscription strength drugs to calm frustrations. Once you get connected, you can then buy AND REVIEW products to your heart's content. Hope this helps- i know writing this review has been theraputic for me...

"A great signal repeater", I have to agree with the other reviewers that the intended way to set this up is a pain. You actually need a computer with a wireless card to run the setup program and it will mess with the configuration on your computer. In the end it refused to configure the box because it said that my AP was not compatible... (I think officially only Linksys APs are supported.) However - you can just use an Ethernet crossover cable between your computer and the repeater (or hang them both off the same switch), set your computer to 192.168.1.100 and browse with your Web browser to 192.168.1.240. There is no login and default password is "admin". The setup is straightforward and real easy this way. Enter your SSID and the WPA password and change the IP to fit into your wireless network. Do not forget to change the password first. Hit save. Done. Success is shown by the blue link light. If you screwed up, you can factory reset the box by pressing the reset botton for 5 seconds and start over. The auto-config feature is useless.

One note is that this is a repeater not an access point. This means it will send and transmit on the same channel and therefore your throughput will be somewhere 40%. I am still getting about 3 Mbps, which is plenty for Web surfing. An interesting obserservation is that the Ethernet port can also be used to bridge the wireless network to another Ethernet cloud and this way there would be no BW loss. On a side note, your AP needs to support WBS (Wirelss Distribution System), many do but not all.

On a final note, this is not a commercial solution where you can daisy chain multiple of those repeaters to cover a large area. This product is thought to cover bad spots in a residential home such as an outside area where few wireless users are active at the same time. If you want to cover a large space with many users you need multiple APs and probably should look into a commercial AP solution.

"Quick solution for range problems!!!", When i purchased this repeater i had two options: get a new router and turn it into a repeater or just get a repeater... and when i saw that they were about the same price, well i decided to give this product a shot... cannot complain, great signal, easy setup (suggestion: do not use cd, plug it into the router and do it manually, it will take you 3 mins tops for it to sync with router and you are set!) Would recommend to anyone having signal problems. Or you could get an amp, its up to you... but this is really simple!!!