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Model No.: tl-wa860re

I recently bought a wi-fi extender to help ease my rage regarding the wi-fi dead spots around my house. Sadly, my rage has worsened due to the device failing to connect to to the main router. :rolleyes:

Here's a sample picture:




I've tried configuring the settings of the extender by different methods basing from other forums I've read, but to no dice. I'm practically a beginner with all this stuff (Not my area of expertise). Any form of help will be greatly appreciated! :D (Pardon me for my newbness) :p

I'm using an Arris cable modem w/ router (Model: DG860P2)

What I've (currently) done:
1) Disabled DHCP on extender (nothing happened)
2) Set it to Static IP and tried 3 different IP addresses : 192.168.0.10, 192.168.0.253, 192.168.0.254. (Router IP address is 192.168.0.1). Set the Gateway to 0.0.0.0 & 192.168.0.1 (I really don't know what this does) (Nothing really happened)
3) Under Wireless Settings, I changed the Operation mode to WDS. (nothing happened)
4) I matched the wireless security with the same settings as my router. (nothing happened)

I've somehow got a feeling that there's something off with the settings of my router. But I just don't know what to do because as I said, I'm a newbie with stuff relating to this. So I'll just post pictures of my router settings:




Based from the MAC addresses, I also don't know which one to use when I tried to manually configure the extender. from the first image, you could see that the MAC address being read by the extender is different to my router. I tried both MAC addresses but either nothing happened came out as an error which states: "the mac address is a multicast mac address please input again." :( I really don't know what I was doing so I just resulted into trying everything. (At the back of my router, there is a "CMAC" and a "WAN MAC". Tried both "MACs but nothing happened).

So here are other snips from my modem config:






... help me please! :(:confused::)