What You Need To Know; Setting Your Wre6606 To Repeater Mode; Configuring Your Wlan, Lan And Maintenance Settings - ZyXEL Communications WRE6606 User Manual

6.3 What You Need to Know

With the exception of the AP Select and System Mode screen, other configuration screens in
Repeater mode are similar to the ones in Access Point Mode. See
User's Guide.

6.3.1 Setting your WRE6606 to Repeater Mode

To use your WRE6606 as a repeater, see
1
Connect your computer to the LAN port of the WRE6606.
2
Open a web browser such as Internet Explorer and type "http://zyxelsetup" or "http://192.168.1.2"
3
as 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 Apply. Otherwise, click Ignore.
5
Note: You have to log in to the Web Configurator again when you change modes. As soon
as you do, your WRE6606 is already in Repeater mode.
Note: If a client is connected to the WRE6606 through the wired Ethernet connection, the
client can only access the 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi. In the following figure, the LAN Client is
only able to communicate with devices in the 2.4 GHz wireless network.
Figure 17 Repeater Mode Overview
5 GHz
2.4 GHz

6.3.2 Configuring your WLAN, LAN and Maintenance Settings

• See Chapter 10 on page 56
wireless network and LAN settings.
• See Chapter 13 on page 82
Chapter 6 Repeater Mode
Section 3.1.1.1 on page
5 GHz
WRE
2.4 GHz
LAN Client
and Chapter 11 on page 78
for information on configuring your Maintenance settings.
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Chapter 3 on page 19
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5 GHz
5 GHz AP
2.4 GHz AP
2.4 GHz
for information on configuring your
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