TRENDnet TEW WiFi Access Point Repeater & Best Solution For My Wireless Printer Connection.
A while back I wrote an article about extending your WiFi range with another old wireless router (thus creating a subnet).
Well you can imagine my surprise when a recent lightning storm shorted pins 1 and 2 in my cable. ( A cable checker comes in handy). I went out and bought theTRENDnet TEW-736RE Range Extender (sale price $20-$36). This device had one ethernet 10/100Mbps port and two antenas 802.11N 300Mbps.
Setup was a piece of cake by pluging it into my ethernet port and addressing its’ IP address.
I set the 1 ethernet port to my network range via Static IP set the password saved and restarted the range extender. Every thing woked great. Then I realized that I had my color laser printer pluged into my old router, so I plugged it into my range extender and tried to run HP Jet direct setup. Didn’t work. I was running windows 8. I told control panel to find my printer. It did and all is fine. I removed the defective cable and tossed it. We are done here. (Take note that some brands of wireless network repeaters are compatible only with their own brands of Routers & Range Extenders)
Oh, one note. I just upgraded my internet service to 30MB. When wired I got 30MBps. Now using wireless every machine that’s wireless on my network cuts my speed in half. I’m going to have to look into this.
Enjoy your wireless access point!
