What about the channel?
Should the first AP have the same as the second?
Or should the channels be different?

Regards
jonny

Hello Jonny,

Should be on the same channel.

HTH

When configuring the WAP54G as a repeater, is a switch required? If so, do I hard wire it into the, “internet” port on the WAP54G? I have a WRT54G at my neighbors house with internet transmitting out of it. I have a “Hawking” directional antenna hooked up to one of the antenna ports. On my end I have a WAP54G with the same type of directional antenna hooked up. I have set the WAP54G to repeater mode and entered in the MAC address of the WRT54G into it. My laptop connects to the WAP54G and does not see the internet or network from my neighbor. Can you help?

(same channel, no security yet. Signal should be good)

Hi Jeff!

Switch is not required, since being a repeater it only repeats (extends) the signal of your main access point, thus hardwiring it to another device is useless. Ensure that you input the Wireless MAC Address of the router (Status tab >> Wireless). Check the IP settings of your WAP4G if it is in range with your WRT54G router and check the default gateway if it’s the router’s IP Address.

HTH

I have a stand-alone network IP camera that’s not wireless and I’d like to make it wireless by connecting it to a WAP54G in bridge mode and letting it communicate to my WRT54G which is wired to my PC. Both units have the latest firmware. Currently the cam is working fine plugged into the WRT and it has it’s own IP and processor, so I would think it would work with the WAP.

yojohn

i set password on ap but when i set password on repeater i cannot access to internet within the repeater .when i cancel the password on ap and repeater i can access the internet please advise how can i set the repeater with password

If I change the IP address of the AP to one in the 192.168.0.x range I can’t access it anymore (yes I change the address of the interface of the Pc that I use to access it). If I use any other subnet works. Anyone knows why this happens or its happening to me only?

PLEASE
CAN YOU GIVE ME COMMENT URJENT.

I have a linksys WAP54G configured as an access point. My two wireless laptops have the IPs 192.168.1.6 and 192.168.1.7 The internet works OK for both laptops I can not ping from one laptop to the other. I want to make a network between the two laptops. Ehat do I have to do?

Hello George,

Make sure that none of the computers have its firewall enabled or at least check that your firewall is not blocking any access from one computer to the other. If you want to be able to share files between the two computers then make sure that you have the file and printer sharing enabled.

HTH

My WAP54G will not reset to create the default IP address of 192.168.1.245.

I have tried all variations of pressing the reset butting and powering off to no avail.

The Linksys setup utility fails to find it, and my IP scanner fails to locate it in the range 192.168.0.1 to 192.168.1.255, though it finds all the other devices attached to the router.

I have even tried linking it directly to the PC’s network card, and both the Linksys setup utility anf IP scanner report no device present.

I feel I have not carried out the reset procedure correctly - can any one advise, very accurately, please.

Cheers, John.

Hello
Now it works (with firewall from an antivirus programm removed). I am wondering if there is a utility to check the computers connected to the acces point.

George

George,

check on the status page of your access point, it should be listed there.

I planned to create a network between my computer in my house and my brother’s computer in his house; these are my available hardware and specifications:
1- two Access Point (WAP54G) devices
2- Distance between houses is 70 meter

I don’t know to set access point in which mode; access point or ap client or repeater or bridge?
I hope any one can helps me!

Ebrahim,

You can either set that as a repeater or an access point client or wireless bridge depending on the devices your brother has. I assume you have your own router aside from the WAP54G. Does your brother only have 1 computer and it it a wireless computer? If yes then you can set the second WAP54G as a Repeater but if you are to hardwire the WAP54G (your brother’s side) to another router there or hub/switch, you can set the access point to Bridge or AP Client then hardwire it to your brother’s router/switch/hub.

Soda

In bridged mode can the second WAP54G connect directly to desktop ethernet port, ir do you need a router on both sides?

@Aidan

Yes, it can be wired directly to your computer’s ethernet port. but if you want more computers to connect on that side of the second WAP54G then you may plug it into a switch or another router.

hth

@John Davies - I experienced the same issue on a Linksys WET101 WLan bridge. After I changed the IP from 192.168.1.226 to 192.168.0.226 there was now way to connect to it again. I had the impression that the Reset-Button was not having any effect (at least the device did not flicker with any LED to show it was resetted). Finally I opend the chasis to close the reset contact manually because I thought the reset switch was broken. Actually the device showed activity resetting it like this but it still was not possible to connect to it. After spending 2 days I kicked it into the garbage. Obviously Linksys is having a general quality Problem here - I thought about triing a WAP54 but I am not sure yet… did you manage to get it back to life?

My aunt has a Sony Vaio with Windows Vista and I am trying to configure this access point. When doing the first steps I encounter that the wireless card has 2 ip configurations, Iv4p and Iv6p. One of them, when I click in its properties looks exactly as a TCP/IP configuration. The other one doesn’t. So I took a chance and changed the one that seemed to me, but I couldn’t access via browser to the utility page. That is, when I entered http://192.168.1.5 then Page not found. If I leave the automatic Ip configuration, the ip looks very different from 192.168.1.5.
My other option was to download the drivers available in linksys web site, but I had no luck. After instalind Gaurdkey, I doesn’t seem to work well, since I cannot enter any or password because the button is disabled.
Thanks.

I forgot to mention that I can browse without trouble. But I really need to add a password or a MAC filtering for obvious reasons.
Thanks

sorry ipv4, ipv5

I am running AT&T Uverse at my house. I have the gateway in one room, and the three desktops in another. I don’t want to run cable accross the house, so I have an idea. One of the desktops has a wireless card, the others are only there temporarily so I don’t want to spend the money on them. Is is possible to connect the two without cards to a router, put a WAP on the router, and set the WAP to act as a bridge, WITHOUT killing the wireless access on his computer?

Chris,

I’m afraid that won’t be possible unless you have WAPs on both sides (the router and desktops)running in bridge mode.

However, you can set the WAP to act as access point, then connect the desktop with the wireless card to it. The two other desktops then be hardwired and setup to connect to the desktop with wireless card as its gateway, the only caveat on this setup is that the desktop which act as the gateway stays up for the wired desktops to be able to connect to the net.

Hope that helps.

I have wimax device that I am using with my laptop using ethenet port. This wiMax device (Samsung SMT-S3500), does not have option for wirless access. Now I want to use linksys WAP54G to access internet on my laptop. What steps should I follow?

Hi all
please help me solve this problem.
I have a LAN which conncets to inter net through DSN so the computers have ip 192.168.60.xxx and gateway as 192.168.60.1 and then dsn xxx.xxx.xxx.xx now i have connceted the WAP54G to one of my swithc. and then i connected to it through web browser from my hp laptop with vista i gave WAP54G a static ip address of our range i.e 192.168.60.xxx now it works fine but when i connect to wireless network transmited by WAP54G my laptop accuires a funny ip address and not of the series…. and hence not able to conncet to the network or internet

please help
thanks

Drastant,

Check that you have the dhcp enabled on your router, else, you can assign a static ip address on your laptop.

Batman thanks for reply
my router is DHCP enabled but it does not give the ip of our range i.e 192.168.60.XXXX but it gives funny address like 169.154XXX. setting the ALTERNATE IP TAB ON THE DHCP solves the problem but i want a permanent solution so i dont have to set an alternate ip for DHCP on every laptop that wants to connect it.

drastant,

try to do a factory default reset, then reconfigure your router but before you do that, please take note your current settings or better yet create a backup of it.

how to configure WRT300N as AP repeater/ client ?

Not sure if this is monitored but I’ll ask anyway…

I’m trying to add a WAP54G Access point to my network as a wireless repeater to extend the range of my home network. I have my DSL modem connected to a Linksys WRT54G wireless router. When the WAP54G AP is not in the mix, my laptop will connect wirelessly to my network (through the WRT54G router), and I can connect to the internet.
When I add the WAP54G to the mix as a repeater (and yes, I used the MAC address of the WRT54G router as the address to repeat), I can no longer connect to the internet with my laptop because the laptop is now connecting to the AP. The laptop says that I only have local connection. Any ideas about my setup?

Hi i’m trying to connect my pc to a wap54g and have it talk to my wrt54g for an internet connection, i’ve done this before but not in a long time, was wondering if anyone could help me out.

Thank you
Joe

I planned to create a network in the two building using my two WRT54G. Is it possible to communicate this connection? If it is possible, please tell me how to configure it. My available hardware and specifications:
1.) two Wireless router (WRT54G) devices
2.) two TRENDnet TEW-AO19D 19 dBi Outdoor High-Gain Directional Antenna
3.) Distance between building is 300 meter

I hope any one can helps me!

Yogs,

This is my recommended setup on your scenario.

Location 1 (i assume this is your main network)

1 Wireless Router (wrt54g)
1 TRENDnet TEW-AO19D Hi-Gain Antenna

Location 2

1 Wireless AP (set this to client mode)
1 TRENDnet TEW-AO19D Hi-Gain Antenna

You can add the mac address of your wireless ap to the mac address filter table of on your wireless router to avoid unauthorized access to your wireless network.

I hope it helps.

Dino

I have a linksys wap54 i am always losing connectivity to the internet. some times its fine other times i have to unplug the ap and plug it back in before i can get online again. i have tried to change channels but so far none have fixed the problem. is there anything else i could try.

Hi, I’m trying to install new WRH54G internet router into a existing network having two WAP54G AP in which one is acting as a repeater.But unfortunately I can’t add this new device in to my network. Please post help then I would be great thankful to all !.

Hi
i am using Linksys wireless access point WAP54G with ses,it’s working fine with internet,but when i am configuring the mail id from ms outlook,i am not able to send & receive the mails.

I want know WAP54G network range. Means how much distance it will work.

Hello, i have a problem with WAP54G. i try to use it as a repeater with a sagem router. But it doesn’t repeat ? could anyone help me ? thank you

@JBabon

I’m afraid there’s a specific compatibility with WAP54G setting it as a Repeater. Check out the user web interface, scroll down and check on the notes…

http://ui.linksys.com/files/WAP54G/v3/3.01/Setup.htm

i have linksys acces point WAP54G i need to config it as the acces point static ip and give ip for the users automaticaly in the range 172.xxx.xxx.xxx
plase give me soluation

Hi Friends, I need help finding an access point / router to work with a wide range coverage like 300 - 500 meters.
Please, let me have your suggestions, ideas about it.
My email address: nasim.akbary@hotmail.com

looking forward,

hi
is there someone can help?
i have WRTG2-SG and want it to work as WAP, is this is posible.

I successfully configured the WRT54G and able to access wireless with out any problem. Now I have another laptop and I am not able to access internet wirelessly from new laptop. I entered the MAC address of the new laptop but still not able to connect. Any advise please?

when i connect 5 access point (linksys) with a switch to linksys modem they are work for sometime (one day) then the message(limeted connectivity) appear in all laptops

I cannot access the note section. Has the site changed?

Thanks.

Did you ever get an answer?

Linksys WAP 54G configuration setting
After configure the wirless settings

Step :1

Go to Network connections->Right click of wireless connection -> Properties ->
assing the IP address
Ip address : 192.168.1.***
subnet mask : 255.255.255.0
Default gateway : 192.168.1.100 which is what you are assigning in your Local area connection r default ip address of your wireless and

Step : 2

Go to Browser :

Tools menu-> option - > advance -> network -> settings -> connection -> select Manual proxy connection and assign ur gateway ip address ( 192.168.1.100) port 3128

this working v nice

Im having trouble adding another laptop ,
have scientific atlanta router and wep54g , i get access on all wireless machines but only 1 of them can use internet. can you please advise.

thnx

My WAP54G has alimit of 15 users how can i extend this? does it have a limit on how many clients can connect through it?

Thanks

awesome awesome awesome. I finally got it working. thank you so very much. I have gone to almost every site googles suggested by far this is the best. nice job!

I have a WRT54G2 (not a WRT54G) and a WAP54G in Wireless Repeater mode. Although everything connects, the signal is repeated and strengthened, no network or internet access. Cisco/Linksys support says the the WRT54G2 is not supported by the WAP54G in the same way as the WRT54G and it will not work. Say it ain’t so! Anyone know how to make it work since it seems to be 80% there? Thanks so much for any feedback.

hi
I have DSL coming into a lynksys router, I want to add a wireless for my guest at the canpground, I have a high gain omni-directional antenna to mount outside the store. and I do not want the geust to have to use a pasword to get in to the network. Will this lynksys AP work in this case?

hi
you have to use another roughter to extend the limit of the users in place of one roughter you have two use two roughter

I have this router and two macs. I can only get one of the macs at a time to connect to the internet. Is there a way to configure it so that both computers can connect to the internet at the same time? What am I doing wrong? Thanks!

our dormitory residents wanted to buy either routers or wireless access points. we have already a switch where we can connect those. please advise us. our dorm is rectangular around 60 meters by 13 meters area.

I input 192.168.1.245 and it asks for credentials. So i put in admin and leave password blank but it wont let me in. I got this router used so is it possible it already has been set up? Is there any way i can recover the username and password?