WRE54G wireless range problems.

God day, dear experienced user.
Ok, here is my story:
I got two houses on my property, and house A got an AP modem called ZyXEL. Which is based on the standard 802.11G.
This Access Point is in House A.
I have moved some of my childrens to House B. And they want to have an Internet connection over there.
House B is pretty close house A. So they get a weak signal strenght from our ZyXEL modem wireless AP. But they want to make it stronger.
We located a window in house B with 1, 2 "lines of strenght". However the other locations in House B the signal strenght is 0, 1 line.
We bought a Wireless - G Range Expander, model: WRE54G. Version 3 I believe. And we located it at the window with 2 signal strenght. Plugged in the power supply.
Then I tried to connect to it, it did not work.
Then I readed forums regarding other users with same situation, it looks like it was something with password encryption.
Then I entered the gateway of the main AP, which is 10.0.0.138. And I changed it from WPA PSK to "unsecured".
Then on House B where the Range Expander is located I clicked a button for auto configuration.
Well the situation is: The name of the range expander seem to have changed to the name of our Wireless AP ESSID. So I thought it worked, also, inside House B, we got like 4 to 5 lines of signal strenght. And thought Wohoo! Its working!
But then, we connect to it, and it seems we can not get an properly connection to the internet.
After some further investigations, we cant connect to the gateway either. Even thought it says we are connected.
Here is my testing:
I connect to the network, which is usually 0, 1 line, but now 4, 5.
Then the "connecting" icon changes to the normal icon which at least usually represents "connection working".
Then I enter command prompth.
I write IPCONFIG. And I find out that the gateway is 10.0.0.138, and that my IP is 10.0.0.4
BUT, then I write "PING 10.0.0.138".
And I get NO response.
Note that I got my firewall disabled, the router's firewall is also disabled, and it is "unsecured" mode, it has no encryption or password requirements.
What can the problem be?
CD PROBLEM:
With the Range Expander, I got a CD, when I run the CD, I try to install it, and come to "Performing Site Survey" And then after reaching 100% it pops up an error message: Site Survey Failed. Please try again.
I apologize for my bad English.
Greets: Stefan Brannfjell
Message Edited by Znote on 10-10-2009 11:37 AM

By default IP Address of the WRE54G is 192.168.1.240.Change the IP Address of the WRE54G(Range Expander) in the Range of AP..i.e..10.0.0.240 and default gateway same as of the AP.

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