Edimax BR-6258n Nano router User manual

EDIMAX COMPUTER INC.
Edimax BR-6258n Nano rout r
150Mbps Wireless Broadband Router
© 2011 Edimax Comput r
3350 Scott Blvd., Building #15
Santa Clara, California 95054, USA
Phon 408-496-1105 • Fax [phone]
www.edimax.us

Edimax BR-6258n
Congratulations on your purchase of the Edimax BR-6258n. It is currently the smallest wireless router, and
we back them up with great technical support. We are committed to making you a success because our
success depends on yours.
This is a detailed step-by-step installation instruction for the Station Infrastructure mode setup.
Assumptions:
1. You have the Edimax BR-6258n Wireless router.
2. You use Ethernet cable to connect your computer to LAN port (the Yellow port) of BR-6258n.
3. Keep the WAN port (the Blue port) of BR-6258n unplugged.
4. Power on BR-6258n router either by using its power adapter or by using its USB cable with a USB
port of the computer.
5. Your main wireless router is powered on. Its DHCP server function is enabled. The main wireless
router will give dynamic IP addresses to computers in the network.
6. If your main wireless router has wireless encryption setting, you know the wireless encryption
passphrase (also known as network key or password) of your wireless network.

Fig. 1
Open web browser like Internet
Explorer.
In the address box, enter
http://192.168.2.1 hit Enter.
Enter the default username and
password.
Username: admin
Password 1234
Get into the router’s configuration
page.
Fig. 2
Click on General Setup in the menu.
Click on Wireless.
In the field of “Mode”, select
“Station Infrastructure” as the Mode.
Fig. 3
The button “Select Site Survey”
appeared.
Click on the “Select Site Survey”
button..
Fig. 4
A new window pops up and shows
available wireless networks.
Select your wireless network.
Click on Done. The Wireless Site
Survey window close
automatically..

Fig. 5
Please note the ESSID has been
changed. It should be the SSID of
the existing wireless network.
In this example, “EdimaxCorp” is
our main router.
Click on Apply button.
Fig. 6
Click on Continue button.. We have
more configurations to set.
Fig. 7
Go to Security Settings. The
encryption is disabled by default.
If your wireless router has wireless
encryption enabled, you need to use
the same security password in the
BR-6258n. If you are not sure about
the encryption passphrase, you may
need to check the setting in your
wireless router
Fig. 8
We recommend use WPA2 AES.
If your wireless router has options
like WPA2-personal, WPA-personal,
WPA/WPA2 mixed. Please make
sure you select WPA2-personal.
Here we enter the pre-shared key
(also known as passphrase). Click on
Apply
Fig. 9
Click on Continue button. Next we
are going to disable router function.

Fig. 10
Click on LAN setting.
Have the option of “DHCP Server”
turn off.
The default IP address is
192.168.2.1. It is optional that you
assign a new IP address to the BR-
6258n. The BR-6258n Station
Infrastructure can work fine even its
IP address is not in the wireless
network.
However, you may want to assign a
new IP to the BR-6258n which may
help you trouble shoot and easily
access the BR-6258n later.
Click on Apply.
Fig. 11
Click on Continue button. We have
one more setting to be done.
.
Fig. 12
Go to NAT settings.
Go to the option of “Static Routing”.
Put a check on the check box of
“Enable Static Routing”. Click on
Apply.
Fig. 13
Click on Apply for the router save
settings and reboot.

Fig. 14
In 60 seconds, the router will work as
Access Point Station Infrastructure.
Fig. 15
Verify if your Ethernet computer has
Internet.
If your Ethernet computer has
Internet, you can connect other
etherenet device like xBox to the
LAN (Yellow port) of BR-6258n.
The Station Infrastructure mode
setup is completed.
Sometimes in order for your
computer get the IP address from
your wireless router, you need to go
into cmd prompt and type “ipconfig
/release” hit Enter, type “ipconfig
/renew” hit Enter key.
To go into cmd prompt:
For Windows XP, click on Start ->
Run, enter “cmd” hit OK.
For Windows Vista/Windows 7,
click on Start, go to the box of
“Search programs and files” enter
“cmd” hit Enter key.
For other devices like xBox, you can
reboot the device.