Im also struggeling with the repeater.

I have configuerd it in my house with one of my laptops (VISTA). Then when i take the repeater out in my garage where its going to be, i plug it in and it finds the W-lan with good strength.

Then when i start the computer i have in the garage (XP) it finds the W-lan connection ( the ss:id in the house is found with good strength, not the fritz!wlan connection) but when i try to connect with the W-lan i get problems.

The connetion works but it says that its limited or no connetion, and when i try to repair it it can`t renew the IP ??? Same if i take my other laptop(XP) out in the garage and try.

Thanks

Henrik

Chhers

I am trying to connect my Fritz wlan repeater and can see your explanation above, but cant make it work. Can you please describe in more details how you did (even if it was a long time ago)?

Thanks

The user interface – especially on the device itself – is quite enigmatic and far from intuitive.

I agree that some work would’ve been nice but there have been substantial upgrades to the firmware already (compared to the time when it was released fresh in the wild) so there’s some hope.

Tried it at a friend’s place, worked for 1 hour.
Then took it to my own appartement, what a surprise when I understood that it could not be reconfigured for another network!

It keep displaying a running clock and there’s nothing I can do.

I don’t see in the list of Wifi network around me.

Thanks to your poste (and not to the manual that does not exist), I saw that there’s a menu behind the LCD screen, when touching it.

Found the reset option (the one that looks like a Reload button) but pressing the middle of the screen does… nothing. It does not react.

I think the device is much too young and not ready for public release, it was a mistake to buy it so early.

If you have trouble navigating to the web interface, you can try this: Since the repeater acts as a DHCP and DNS server when unconfigured, it will send it’s own IP when you connect to it and receive an address.

You can try accessing the repeater by that address directly (thus skipping the hostname), the protocol is definitively http and not https .

You can reset the repeater through it’s OSD menu:
Tip the left lower edge of the screen with your finger, repeat that until you see an icon that looks like a round arrow (sort of like a browser “reload” icon) with the letter “R” on the right side of it.

Tip the middle of the screen and tip again when the check-mark icon pops up. The repeater should be reset now.

For testing purposes I suggest you plug-in the Fritz! repeater somewhere close to your laptop and have a look whether you can find the Fritz! network after that (give it 2-5 minutes). Depending on the WLAN adapter in your laptop you might need to disconnect from your previous network to see all networks in your vicinity.

You DO need to disconnect from your previous network when you find the Fritz network, because in it’s initial/unconfigured state the repeater sports it’s own dhcp server so you can later access http://fritz.repeater to configure it.

As long as you don’t see the repeater’s network you can’t access it and configure it to relay data from another wireless network, thus rendering the repeater useless.

Note: I wrote the initial password for the Fritz network would be 00000 while it is 00000000 (8 times zero).

I just looked it up in the manual and the “clock” thingy is actually supposed to be a radar, indicating the repeater is searching for WPS compatible devices/networks. If you’re somewhat annoyed by the icon you can also try to tip the repeat, thus accessing it’s OSD menu… but there’s nothing you can setup, the configuration is all web-based.

Another thing to be all happy about: The web-interface is completely German without any chance of changing language to anything else. I’ll translate the dialogues for you and upload them as pictures later on, if you want me to .

sorry, I don’t skype, but I’ll try to put in easy terms

Just let me assume now that you’re one of the 95% of the World that is using Windows .

If you use XP:
- Click start, Control Panel, Network Connections
- Select your wireless connection (usually indicated by a set of green bars or an antenna symbol)
- Right click, select Properties, select TCP/IP
- Make sure you didn’t assign an IP address or DNS server manually (just make sure the radio boxes use the “automatic” settings)

If you use Windows 7:
- Click Start, Control Panel, in the search panel enter “adapter” and select “Show network connections”
- Select your wireless connection (usually indicated by a set of green bars or an antenna symbol)
- Right click, select Properties, select TCP/IP
- Make sure you didn’t assign an IP address or DNS server manually (just make sure the radio boxes use the “automatic” settings)

After that just search for wireless networks (right click on wireless connection, search for wireless networks) and connect to the Fritz one.

After that just follow the instructions from the previous comment.

Hope that helps you, feel free to talk back if there are any questions .

setting it up is rather easy:
- Disconnect your WLAN adapter and make sure DHCP is active for the adapter.
- Plug in the Fritz! WLAN Repeater into a power outlet.
- Let your WLAN adapter search for networks, it will find the Fritz! adapter.
- Connect to it, open your browser and navigate to http://fritz.repeater
- The default password is 0000 methinks, click your way through the wizard and you’re done.

Der FRITZ!WLAN Repeater N/G unterstützt die gängigen WLAN Standards 802.11n Draft 2.0 (300 MBit/s), 802.11g/a (54 MBit/s) und 802.11b (11 Mbit/s). Zudem verfügt der AVM WLAN Repeater über eine Dualbandunterstützung für 2,4 GHz- oder 5 GHz-Verbin……

If you bridge two WLAN devices the bandwidth of these will be cut in half. That means if you’re operating on a 802.11g base you will never reach 54MBit/s (which you won’t reach anyway, no matter what) but be stuck with about 25-27MBit/s in the most ideal case. If you’re unlucky you get even less than that, resulting in the fact that your WAN connection may be faster than your wireless connection altogether.

Another possibility is so-called star topology. In this scenario, every repeater is connected directly with the WLAN access point.

- Disconnect from your previous WLAN, make sure you have set your interface preferences on your computer/laptop to DHCP.
- Connect to the Fritz! WLAN Repeater N/G network
- Open your browser and navigate to http://fritz.repeater
- Follow the assistant, it’ll scan your network for SSIDs etc., be sure to set the right kind of authentication.
- When the repeater is online (like in: Everything works) – which can take a while, first reboot of the device after setup takes a while – be sure you’re connected and everything works.
- Navigate to the repeater again (http://fritz.repeater or the IP of the device)
- In WLAN -> Radio settings you can change the SSID of the _repeater_ (i.e. to MYSSID_REPEATER)
- That’s it

Thank Ivan