What You Need To Know; Setting Your Wap6806 To Repeater Mode; Repeater Mode Status Screen - ZyXEL Communications ARMOR X1 User Manual

3.3 What You Need to Know

With the exception of the Operation Mode other configuration screens in the Repeater mode are
similar to the ones in Access Point Mode. See

3.3.1 Setting your WAP6806 to Repeater Mode

To use your WAP6806 as a repeater, see
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Connect your computer to the LAN port of the WAP6806.
2
Open a web browser such as Internet Explorer and type http://zyxelsetup or http://192.168.1.2 as
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the web address in your web browser.
Enter "1234" (default) as the password and click Login.
4
Type a new password and retype it to confirm, then click Change. Otherwise, click Skip. See
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Section 7.5 on page 38
Note: You have to log in to the Web Configurator again when you change modes. As soon
as you do, your WAP6806 is already in Repeater mode.
Note: If a client is connected to the WAP6806 through the wired Ethernet connection, the
client can only directly access the 5 GHz Wi-Fi. In the following figure, the LAN
Client is only able to directly communicate with devices in the 5 GHz wireless
network.
Figure 5 Repeater Mode Overview
5 GHz
2.4 GHz

3.4 Repeater Mode Status Screen

Click to open the Status screen.
Chapter 3 Repeater Mode
Chapter 2 on page 15
Section 2.1.1 on page
for details.
5 GHz
REPEATER
WRE
2.4 GHz
LAN Client
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of this User's Guide.
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5 GHz
5 GHz AP
2.4 GHz AP
2.4 GHz