E4200 - Range is not good!

I purchased this unit to upgrade my wireless home network to improve my signal range as well as speed. I also added a WET610N wireless bridge to the mix too. I orginally had a WAP54G and because of signal issues I had to add a range extender to the mix to cover the died areas of my house.
I live in a house of block constuction inside and out with about 3200 sq. the E4200 is in my office on the far end of the home. The dead zones are on the other in of the house where the bedrooms are to me the distance is not that far. Well I know from my previous set up that these areas are and issue but I thought the new unit would give better coverage not so. I got the same if not worse covage in these areas with just the E4200 in play. I thought ok lets put the range extender back in play and link it to the E4200. After working with this for about 30 minute I contacted a tech online and found out that the E4200 is not compatable with my unit witch is a WRE54G. Never mind that all the units are from the same company and no where in there product info do they tell you the E4200 in not going to work with your older linksys products. I also found out from the online tech there is no range extender other than a busniess class access point with repeater feature that will work with the E4200. I also tried using my WAP54G in repeater mode with NO luck.
So I ended up having to put my old setup back in play and having two wireless networks in the house one just to cover the dead zones and the other to link to the WET610N because that is not compatable with anything other than the E4200. Not very happy with this because the WET610N was to be use on a Direct tv box in and area where the signal is weak to died from the E4200. The WET610N had to be moved to the XBOX 360 that is closer to the location of the E4200 and I just can't link the Direct TV box with out a hard wire witch can't be done with out major work.
Overall the unit works fine for a short range in a solid block home and the speed and other funtions are fine. 

Yes E4200 is not compatible with the G technology devices.. However regarding the wireless range you can try in changing the wireless channel on the router..
You can try with channel 1 , 6 , 9 or 11 and observe the connection..
If that does'nt resolve the issue try updating the firmware of the router.

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