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I have a linksys Wag160n but it does not cover my entire house(Thick walls and concrete) so I was advised by a guy who came out to my house and runs his own IT company to set up a router to relay the signal, we decided on a point in the house and how to do it etc. He dropped off the router today and this evening I tried to set it up, epic fail. It is a Netgear WN802T. I have managed to get into the routers page and set some stuff up but the router will only be used to relay the signal a good 8m away, upstairs. I can't connect it to the main router (linksys) so I dont know what to do. I am setting it up on my macbook pro. Once I am in the netgears page what do I do? how do I set it up to relay signal etc?

Please help as it is pretty annoying having to sit in the passage to use wireless up stairs.

Thanks
 
If all else fails, phone the "guy who came out to my house and runs his own IT company" and tell him: You come does it
 
Went through the manuel, online and paper, and managed to get in to the page but it doesnt help wrt setting it up to relay signal, only to set it up as your main modem.
 
I assume you aren't running a cable between your 2 devices? Then I believe you need to find settings for "Wireless Repeater Mode" or "WDS" on the Netgear device, which is basically a Wireless Access Point (WAP). You need to set it up so that the WAP repeats the signal from the Linksys device. You generally do this by giving the WAP the Wireless MAC address of the Linksys device.

The Netgear device should allow you to use it in at least 2 modes (could be more). One should be as a "wireless access point", which means that it needs a wired connection to your Linksys router (either directly, or through your network).
The other mode is "wireless repeater mode" or "wireless distribution system" (WDS), which allows you to make the connection between your Netgear and Linksys router using Wireless. This mode will also act as a Wireless Access Point. It's just that your backbone connection is wireless, instead of wired.

I've noticed that the Netgear Device is 802.11n draft 1.0 compliant. You should check on the Linksys device what version of 802.11n is supported. Also, for alot of the Draft N devices, between different manufacturers, the implementations are slightly different, and don't play so well together. Trying dropping both devices down to 802.11g (54mbps) and see if that helps.

Failing that, run an ethernet cable from the one end of your house to the other, and connect 1 device on either end, and setup the Netgear device in WAP mode.
Failing that, get your brilliant IT friend to come set it up for you, or take the device back.
 
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What's with all the 'bash the IT guy' stuff?

Perhaps the OP was too cheapskate to pay for the installation?

Why is that everyone on mybb thinks they know everything about IT?

Just remember that when you repeat you half your throughput so don't expect great performance.

Saajid, good points btw.
 
I wasn't cheapskate! He came to assess the situation and after I spoke to him and mentioned the stuff I had learned on the forum eg Ethernet over Power and WDS etc he must have assumed that I was some sort of tech genius who could code in java and set up wireless networks with out instructions, i cant do either.

Thanks Saadj, at least someone actually answers questions and helps people with their problems instead of bashing them, I'll give that method a go because I dont think I did have them connected when I was in the page.
 
Whoa, loosen those tight panties of yours!

I said perhaps, which isn't a direct insult. I was bashing the IT techie bashers. If you can at all connect the new device with ethernet and use it as another AP then this would be better.
 
Thats the problem. I need to just connect it upstairs to a power source and relay the signal, I have set it up to relay through an acces point and entered the name of my wireless network and its mac address into the place where it needed to be entered into but I dont think its working. Currently connected by ethernet on my laptop.
 
How sure are you that the netgear device can actually 'see' the linksys device? I've looked at the knowledgebase document on repeating and on pages 6-9 it descibes the steps on the netgear pretty well. Have you looked at this?
 
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