Edimax EW-7206APg Station Infrastructure Mode Setup

[Paul R]

Just to share my experience setting up an Edimax EW-7206APg Access Point
to support Station Mode - where you can plug a regular wired ethernet
cabled device into the Edimax and use it to join a wireless LAN via a
wireless router.

Plug in and attach ethernet cable to the Edimax. Log into the Edimax.
If in factory mode, this may require you to manually set your IP address
on the connecting device to the default subnet e.g. 192.168.2.10 (as the
Edimax has a default address of 192.168.2.1 and ID/password admin/1234).

Now change the IP address and subnet of the Edimax (if required) to
match the subnet of the wireless router to which you wish to attach (I
was using a Netgear, which has an IP address of 192.168.0.1 - so changed
the Edimax to 192.168.0.10).

Now change the IP address of the connecting device to the same subnet as
the wireless router and the now reconfigured Edimax.

Now log into the rebooted Edimax from the connecting device.

Change:
Mode: to 'Station Infrastructure'
Clone the MAC.
'Apply' then change 'Security Settings' to match the wireless router.
Select 'Site Survey'
Then select the appropriate wireless router and select 'connect'.

Note that the Edimax now becomes transparent to the connecting device -
it is now only providing wireless adapter function. You should now be
able to connect to your wireless router and via this to the internet.

Good luck
Paul R