Edimax EW-7438RPn Air User manual

EW-7438RPn
User Manual
04-2012 / v1.2

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Contents
Contents ............................................................................................................. 1
Chapter I: Product Information...................................................................... 2
1-1 Introduction and safety information................................................................2
1-2 Safety Information...........................................................................................3
1-3 Package Contents.............................................................................................4
1-4 Familiar with your new wireless repeater........................................................5
Chapter II: Repeater mode..............................................................................8
2-1 Repeater mode Quick Installation Guide.........................................................8
2-1-1 Hardware WPS button setup ................................................................9
2-1-2 Web browser quick setup ...................................................................12
2-2 Repeater mode Advanced Settings................................................................16
2-2-1 Connect to web configuration menu ..................................................17
2-2-2 Home..................................................................................................19
2-2-3 WPS Setting .......................................................................................21
2-2-4 Advanced Settings..............................................................................24
2-2-5 MAC Address Filtering......................................................................28
2-2-6 System Utility.....................................................................................35
2-2-7 Configuration .....................................................................................38
Chapter III: Appendix.................................................................................... 41
3-1 Configuring TCP/IP on PC............................................................................41
3-1-1 Windows XP IP address setup:...........................................................41
3-1-2 Windows Vista/Windows 7 IP address setup: ....................................42
3-2 Specifications.................................................................................................45
3-3 Glossary.........................................................................................................46

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Chapter I: Product Information
1-1 Introduction and safety information
Thank you for purchasing this mini 802.11b/g/n wireless repeater!
The ultra-compact design with power built-in allows you to install this
repeater everywhere, and still providing excellent network performance
to extend the Wi-Fi signal and wireless coverage.
Other features of this wireless repeater including:
Extend the wireless signal inside your home or office.
Ultra-compact design while maintaining excellent network
performance.
LED signal indicator to easily realize the best location placement
to extend WiFi signal and secure better wireless performance.
WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Setup) hardware button for easy
installation and secure wireless security.

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1-2 Safety Information
In order to keep the safety of users and your properties, please follow the
following safety instructions:
1. This wireless repeater is designed for indoor use only. DO NOT expose
this device to direct sun light, rain, or snow.
2. DO NOT put this at or near hot or humid places, like kitchen or
bathroom. Also, do not left this Wireless repeater in the car in summer.
3. Do not allow kids to put any small parts of this wireless repeater in
their mouth, and it could cause serious injury or could be fatal. If they
throw this wireless repeater, it will be damaged. PLEASE KEEP THIS
WIRELESS REPEATER OUT THE REACH OF CHILDREN!
4. This Wireless repeater will become hot when being used for long time
(This is normal and is not a malfunction). DO NOT put the Wireless
repeater on a paper, cloth, or other flammable objects after the Wireless
repeater has been used for a long time.
5. There’s no user-serviceable part inside the Wireless repeater. If you
found that the Wireless repeater is not working properly, please contact
your dealer of purchase and ask for help. DO NOT disassemble the
Wireless repeater by yourself, warranty will be void.
6. If the Wireless repeater falls into water, DO NOT USE ITAGAIN
BEFORE YOU SEND THE CARD TO THE DEALER OF PURCHASE
FOR INSPECTION.

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1-3 Package Contents
Before you start to use this wireless repeater, please check if there’s
anything missing in the package, and contact your dealer of purchase to
claim for missing items:
z1 x Wi-Fi extender
z1 x Ethernet cable
z1 x Access key card
z1 x Quick installation guide
z1 x CD with user manual and multi-language QIG

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1-4 Familiar with your new wireless repeater
Interface Descriptions
Item Item Name Description
A LAN 10/100M Ethernet LAN Port with
Auto-MDI/MDI-X. Connecting to computer,
switch or hub for local network sharing.
B Reset / WPS Reset the repeater to factory default settings
(clear all settings) or start WPS function.
Press this button and hold for 10 seconds to
restore all settings to factory defaults, and
press this button for less than 5 seconds to
start WPS function.
C ON/OFF This is power on/off slide switch. If you want
to switch off the repeater, switch it to Off
mode.
AB
C

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LED Definitions
LED Name LED Status Description
Signal
Strength
On Excellent signal reception
(Signal strength 50 – 100%)
Flashing Good signal reception
(Signal strength 25 – 50%)
Flashing
Rapidly Poor signal reception (Signal strength < 25%)
Off No signal detected, disconnected, or
in LED off mode
Wi-Fi Flashing Connected to existing Wi-Fi
network (transferring data)
Off Wi-Fi not activated or in LED off
mode
Power
On Device switched on and correctly
powered
Flashing Resetting to factory defaults
Off Device not powered, not correctly
powered, or in LED off mode

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WPS
On WPS connection established
Flashing WPS in progress (waiting for
another WPS device’s connection)
Flashing
Rapidly WPS error
Off No WPS connection established or
in LED off mode
LAN On LAN port connected
Flashing LAN activity (transferring data)
Off LAN port not connected
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Chapter II: Repeater mode
Repeater mode is your Wi-Fi range extender!
It can extend your wireless signal and coverage and help you to solve
wireless dead zone problem.
This chapter will show you how to quickly install this device by using
quick setup and show you the each detailed setting on web UI page of
repeater mode.
2-1 Repeater mode Quick Installation Guide
For the first time setup and easy installation, you can move this device
close to the Wireless Broadband Router or Access point you wish to
connect, after installation done and wireless connection is built, you can
move this repeater device to the place you wish to use.
Insert this device into power outlet on the wall, and switch wireless
repeater’s power switch to ‘ON’ (1). You should see ‘Power’LED light
up in few seconds (2). If not, please check if the power outlet you’re
using is working.
You can build wireless connection via ‘Hardware WPS button’ or
‘Software web browser’.
If your broadband router or access point also supports ‘WPS button’, we
recommend you to use WPS button to establish connection, it is the fast
and secure way without computer.
Using WPS button - please go to section 2-1-1
Using Web browser - please go to section 2-1-2
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2-1-1 Hardware WPS button setup
(1) Press and hold WPS button on repeater for 2 seconds, ‘WPS’LED
will start flashing.
(2) Press WPS button on the wireless broadband router or access point
you wish to connect within 2 minutes.
WPS LED
WPS button
NOTE: this WPS button position on access point is for example,
different device may have different WPS button position.

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(3) If WPS connection is successfully established, ‘WPS’LED will light
for 5 minutes; if ‘WPS’LED flashes fast, there’s something error, please
wait for 2 minutes until ‘WPS’LED off, and try from step(1) again.
When quick installation is successfully done, ‘Signal” LED will turn on.
(4) Please move repeater to the place you wish to use (a better place will
be the center of your house) and insert this repeater into power outlet on
the wall, the wireless connection will be established automatically.
You can check ‘Signal’LED status to understand signal reception level.
Steady light: Excellent, Flash: Good, Fast flash: poor.
TIP: If the access point you wish to connect does not have hardware WPS button,
you can also use its web configuration menu’s WPS function to establish
connection. Or you can login this repeater web UI to have quick setup (detailed
setup refers to ‘2-1-2 Web browser quick setup’manual)
manual)
WPS LED
Si
g
nal LED

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The quick installation setup is completely done, you can refer to ‘2-2
Repeater mode Advanced Settings’to login in web UI for other advanced
settings.
NOTE: If the Signal LED is off, it means this place is out of wireless
signal of your wireless broadband router or access point, please
move this repeater closer to broadband router until repeater device
can receive signal from broadband router and extend its signal.

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2-1-2 Web browser quick setup
Before you can connect to the repeater and start configuration procedures,
your computer must be able to get an IP address automatically (use
dynamic IP address). If it’s set to use static IP address, or you’re unsure,
please refer to ‘Chapter X: Appendix, 5-1 Configuring TCP/IP on PC’ to
set your computer to use dynamic IP address.
1. Use Ethernet cable to connect your computer’s Ethernet port and
wireless repeater’s Ethernet port.
Or connect your computer to the extender through a wireless connection
(search for the available Wi-Fi networks in the area and connect to
“extenderXXXXXX”).
Important notice:
If you are using Windows 7 and the following appears, please click
“Connect the network without setting it up”. Please do not click “OK”.

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If you have accidentally clicked “OK”, you will see the following.
Please click “Cancel”.
2. Now you should have connected to the Wi-Fi extender. Open your
web browser and input the access key in address bar to log in the
extender’s web configuration interface.
Note: The access key can be found on the access key card in the box
and on the Wi-Fi extender.

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3. You will then be prompted to log in. The default username is “admin”
and the default password is “1234”. Click “OK” to continue.
4. iQ Setup will start detecting available Wi-Fi networks automatically.
All the detected Wi-Fi networks will be displayed in the list. Select the
one to which you wish to connect and click “Next” to continue. If the
Wi-Fi network to which you wish to connect does not appear, click
“Refresh” to detect again or try to move the extender closer to the root
wireless access point.
htt
p
://extenderxxxxxx
htt
p
://extenderxxxxxx

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5. You will be prompted to input access point’s wireless security key.
Input the same password as the existing Wi-Fi network in the “KEY”
field and click “Next” to continue.
Note: The extender must have the same Wi-Fi password as the root
wireless access point.
6. After you click “NEXT’the Wi-Fi Extender will start to verify the
wireless key with your associated access point and show you result
within 2 minutes. Please follow the instruction to continue setup.
7. When key is correct, wireless repeater will display the connection
information for you. If everything’s correct, please click ‘APPLY’
Setup extender manually
Note: If you have set the SSID on your root AP to be hidden, please
type in the information manually.

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button to get connected.
8. By default, the extender’s SSID is the same as the root access point’s
SSID. You can change the extender’s SSID if you want. Click
“APPLY” to complete the setup.
9. Please wait for few seconds for wireless repeater to reboot.
10.After reboot complete, web browser will login repeater’s home page
of Web UI. You can close browser and use your computer to connect
to wireless access point by the SSID you set in last step and start using
network.
2-2 Repeater mode Advanced Settings
NOTE: After wireless connection of this repeater and wireless broadband router is
built, repeater is DHCP client and will get IP address from broadband router
automatically. If you want to login Web UI of repeater, please refer to ‘2-2
Repeater mode Advanced Settings’for more functions or learn how to login web
UI again.

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2-2-1 Connect to web configuration menu
Please open web browser (IE, firefox, chrome etc.) and input
http://extenderXXXXXX in address bar then press ENTER key:
Wireless repeater will prompt you to input username and password.
Default username is ‘admin’and password is ‘1234’. Click ‘OK’button
to continue.
You should be able to see the configuration manual of Wireless repeater
in very short time:
http://extenderXXXXXX

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Detailed operation instructions will be given to following manual.
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