Edimax BR-6258n Nano router User Manual

EDIMAX COMPUTER INC.

Edimax BR-6258n Nano router

150Mbps Wireless Broadband Router

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Santa Clara, California 95054, USA

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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 Universal Repeater 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
“Universal Repeater” 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

The SSID name of your main
wireless network appeared in the
box of “Root AP SSID”.

In this example, we use “Edimax” as
the SSID of the repeater. Later our
wireless computers will connect to
the repeater which has SSID named
“Edimax”.

Click on Apply button.
Fig. 6

Click on Continue button.. We have
more configuration 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
repeater. If you are not sure about
the encryption passphrase, you may
need to check the setting in your
wireless router.

Fig. 8

If your wireless router has options
like WPA2-personal, WPA­personal, WPA/WPA2 mixed.
Please make sure you select WPA2­personal. Do not use the option of
Mixed mode.

Here we enter the pre-shared key
(also known as passphrase). Click
on Apply
Fig. 9

Click on Continue button. Later 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
repeater. The repeater can work fine
even its IP address is not in the
wireless network.

However, you may want to assign a
new IP to the repeater which may
help you trouble shoot and easily
access the repeater setup 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.

After 60 seconds, the router
becomes as a repeater

Fig. 14

After 60 seconds, the router will
become as a repeater.

Fig. 15

Verify if your Ethernet computer has
Internet.
If it has Internet, you can have your
wireless computers connect to the
repeater.

Congratulations! You’ve finished
the repeater setup.

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.