Cisco-Linksys WRE54G Wireless-G Range Expander - REFURBISHED

 (288 customer reviews)

There was a lot of information out there about this product but I decided for $25 (Refurbished) I'd try it. Plugged it in, hit the "auto" button and away it went. It boosted the signal in an outbuilding from "Low" to "Excellent" and seems to be working just fine. I ignored the directions and the CD that came with it and didn't do any of the techno stuff like configuring the Host name, etc, etc. It just worked!

There is a ton of advice on this forum, but I wanted to write up what finally worked for me (after 5 hours of trying practically everything I read, plus using the worthless CD from Linksys). I have no idea what will work for you, but found these reviews absolutely invaluable and what I did was a little different from all the other advice on here so I feel it necessary to share. By some technological mystery, these are the steps that finally worked for me. My disclaimer is that I'm sorry, but this just may not work for you. Best of luck to anyone who buys this expander. [Additional apologies on the length of this, but I wanted to be detailed enough to help out.]

In hindsight, I SHOULD NOT have assumed 2 things - 1) that I needed to disable security on our wireless network to set it up and 2) that an IP Conflict meant starting over or messing with the IPs. If I'd ignored these two things, I think the process would have been much smoother. I think that's what I get for...Read more

disc didnt work,but didnt really matter. plugged it in pressed auto-configure,and within a couple minutes went from 1 bar of service to a full 5 bars everywhere in the house.