Wireless g extender v1 by Linksys...

Let me tell ya this little device has to be one of the worst pieces of hardware to setup I have ever tried to setup.  I have successfully dealt with ASA firewalls, ProCurve switches, ISDN routers, and various other networking devices.  First off this device is of the first generation family and on these generations there isn't a RJ-45 connector to do the initial setup.  The process of configuring this version is the following:

1.  Connect to wireless router using your ethernet NIC and change it's IP to lets say 192.168.2.1 from 192.168.1.1. Save changes

2.  Connect to the wireless extender using your wireless NIC (extender's default IP is 192.168.1.240 and it is better to hard-code your IP settings to 192.168.1.1 so you can connect to the extender) and make nessecary changes like; configure IP & default gateway address to match the wireless router, change device name to match wireless router, enable security and configure it the same as the router, change the mode it operates on like B & G or just G, configure the channel to be the same as the router, and last but not least ad the MAC address of the router.  Save changes.

3.  Disable the ethernet NIC.

4.  Now using the wireless NIC (revert back to obtain IP address automatically before doing this) connect to your wireless router again since you changed the IP and also because you were previously connected to the extender and cross your fingers and hope the wireless extender and wireless router are functioning together nicely. 

The chances of this working as advertised are slim to none if you aren't using a Linksys router with the Linksys extender.  This goes back to a previous post of mine where i stated how I like to use the same manufacture in conjunction with one another for compatibility reasons.  I have noticed that just about everybody else out there states the same thing when it comes to using the Linksys Wireless-G Extender (WRE54G).  I do not understand why no other company has come out with their version of a wireless extender like, D-Link, US Robotics, Netgear and so on.  So after approximately 2 hours of messing with this piece of shit device i like to call a Linkbrick i came up short on being successful.  So i give this device a 2 thumbs down of overall performance.