Adding WRE54G to network

This is more of a generalized gripe than anything else. I wonder if anyone from linksys ever reads these forums.
I have found the setup tool for the WRE to be a POS. It will not run on my Win XP Pro box. It starts, asks me to verify the wireless card address, says "configuring network connection" and then disappears from view -- but, it's still in the process list in task manager.
It will run on my other wireless, a laptop with Win 2K Pro on it. However, trying to configure the RE is a hopeless exercise in frustration. The setup tool continually kills the wireless card connection -- which comes back up 10-15 seconds later -- it's using to configure the RE, with the result that at the end of the process, it announces "unable to obtain setup confirmation." Of course it's unable, the wireless connection is down! Although the RE shows two blue lights at the end of this process, it's inaccessible on the assigned IP via a browser. And, if I unplug it and take it to its assigned home, the settings are lost and I'm back to a red link light.
I'm sitting six feet from the router and the RE is half way between us.
I know what I have to do -- I have been through this crap before, with my other RE. I have to take down the network, disable WEP, set all the IP addresses back to default 192.168.*.* addresses, configure the RE and then change all the fricking addresses back to the normal network address range and reset WEP. What a load of BS. There is no sound reason on God's earth that it should be this much work to install an extender.
The docs claim, and the tool pretends, that it can add the RE to the network using my WEP settings. The process is broken. It does not work. It's been broken for years. Why doesn't linksys fix it?
This is a 100% linksys network -- 2 PC cards, 1 PCI card, router and now 2 RE. I started down this road because I was really happy with the PC card in my laptop. But that is the only piece of linksys hardware that has been 100% for me. And, that broken setup tool just ices the cake.
Of course, competitive products might be even more broken that linksys. I may never know. But if i ever have to buy and install another wireless network, i'll sure be trying something new.
Thanks for your time.
mp

My WRE54G on the other hand works, with the different IP segment you have, you should have manually went in on the setup page of the WRE54G while on static IP on the pc, then after changing the WRE54G IP and saving it to follow my network range, I simply use the Autoconfig button on the device while placing it beside the router...and presto! My wireless is repeated...lotsa things may disrupt wireless connection if that is the case, you would need to know by isolation if the wireless connection is lost on the router (really?) or the range expander, if one causes it, change frequency, resort to a firmware upgrade if all else fails.... Though it may be troublesome for others, mine works perfectly on the network setup that I have, i don't have 2.4GHZ phones so I dont encounter that much problem... I guess sometimes I'm lucky... my mom enjoys her wireless connection next on the house next to mine...
"Sometimes your knight in shining armor is just a retard in tin foil.."-ARCHANGEL_06

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