Similarly, I used the wizard to connect up the WAP410n range extender. Once again, a piece of cake. I really don't know why there is criticism about the setup of any of these devices. Basically, in a matter of minutes, the CD does all the work for you. Again, though, I used the setup utility to change the SSID to be the same as the SSID in the router and I defaulted the connection to 2.4 GHz. This may sound complicated but it is not. All you do is log into the router, 192.168.1.1 URL, go to the status tab, right tab, click local network then, at the bottom of that page, click DHCP Client Table (Bottom Left Grey box) and look for the WAP610N and its IP address, which is dynamically assigned. It is listed right in the table, mine was 192.168.1.129 but yours is likely different since the assignment is dynamic and not static. Next, you log into the range extender using this IP address, click wireless and you can change the SSID, the channel etc. However, I found that it is not necessary to change the channel on either the router or on the access point, just leave it as "auto" and simply change the SSID. I was worried that there would be conflicts and network drops. There are no problems at all. Seems one picks up where the other leaves off and provides nice seemless coverage. I still maintain 3 802.11G range extenders, all actively used with this same router EA4500 and on the same network as my new WAP610n access point. So, to net it out, I have the EA4500, three 802.11G Access Points and the new 802.11n Access Point, the WAP610n all working beautifully together. I use one SSID for the EA4500 router and the WAP610N and another SSID for the 3 older 802.11G access points and I turned off the guest access on the EA4500 so two SSIDs cover my entire house and the end user can select to use one or both SSID's to gain access to all five access points.
In short, I highly recommend both the EA4500 router and the WAP610n Access Point. I find it easier to stick to all Cisco / Linksys equipment as well, except I do have one 16 port Netgear Gigabit Switch that works great in my configuration. I also have several other Linksys / CIsco gigabit switches. I do find, in general that wireless performance degrades quickly as you move away from the location of the access point. This is even more exaggerated if you use a range extender, which is amplifying a weak wireless signal. I returned a range extender since I find access points are superior, likely because they derive their wireless transmission from a wired connection to the router.
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