Trying to set up DWL800AP+ repeater

[Alan]

According to the instructions you should be able to use a cat5 to plug into the repeater to access the set up program. After typing in the address given in the instruction, it cannot find anything. I am thinking that the dial up modem is interfering or attempting to access that address instead of through the NIC. Unfortunately I have to keep the dial up modem as the user needs AOL for some business purpose.

I do not know the specs on the PC other than it's a 1 year old eMachine and running XPHome.

I am wanting to try to use the repeater to extend the range of an Apple Airport Wireless hub to include non-APple equipment on the other side of the buiding. I hear that may be a separate nightmare in itself trying to reconfigure Apple defaults to work with non-Apple equipment . The Apple equipment is needed because the graphic artist uses Macs and it was already purchased a while back before the PC were in the picture.

[ktkendall]

If the modem is not connected though you should be fine and the PC knows the modem is there but not actually dialed in/connected to anything, but perhaps when you are typing that IP address of the repeater it brings up the dial up and dials in,, if so just go to internet options connections tab and set it to not dial out for now while you configure the network thing. Other problem could be iP address conflict, but if all you have connected is the repeater then you should be fine, What is the default IP address it wants you to use to connect to it?? (example:: If it's 192.168.1.1 with subnet 255.255.255.0 ,, Then you have to set your PC accordingly to 192.168.1.2 with same subnet..)

[Alan]

Well nothing in the instructions seemed to indicate that you needed to make so many adjustments to access the repeater. I can understand synchronizing the repeater to the AP but not just trying to get to the set up program of the repeater.

[ktkendall]

What address does it give to access the repeater?? If it is an IP address then of course you have to be set correctly on your PC to access it. It could very well be an IP address conflict if the default IP address the repeater has is already in use by your router for instance..

[Alan]

192.168.0.30

[ktkendall]

I would think then that if your network is using the 192.168.1.x scheme, then that is why you can not access this thing. You will need to temporarily adjust your PC to 192.168.0.x where x is not 30. I would make my PC .31 temporarily to gain access and set the repeater to be within range of your 192.168.1.x network than you should be able to set your PC back to original setting and all should be well. Go to command line and type ipconfig to see what your current ip address is..