![]() ![]() OK so not perfect but worthy of 5 stars as excellent fix to WiFi black spots for little money. Then the extender appears as before with the name of “your chosen SSID_EXT”. The manual process seemed prone to have to repeat some steps but stick with it and it will ask for your SSID passcode. And each time you do a reset you have to create a new account. For some reason the manual setup process requires you create an account. So I would either have to turn on 2.4Ghz on the router or use manual setup which does let you repeat any 2.4Ghz WiFi it can see rather than just the one coming from the router. For me this did not work but then I realised the repeater works with 2.4Ghz only and my router was 5Ghz. Took me a couple of goes to force it to reset but you can check it is reset as the SSID reverts to “NETGEAR_EXT”. So first step is to reset the extender by inserting a paper clip into small hole in underside). Had to set it up on a different router (this time Virgin Media V6 Hub). UPDATE: has been working well for 18 months. I presume that Netgear has thought of this! Do they each get a new SSID? e.g _EXT, _EXT_1 etc. Not sure what happens if you have multiple of these. 5 stars? - well I have only been using it for an hour! We will see The extender does take about a minute to restart and reconnect if you unplug it and move it and so if you are experimenting with placement then be patient for it to complete its restart and reconnect signal strength bars) and at the extender where there is a device LED that should glow green (or amber). You can check signal strength (to test for optimal placement) both on your device (e.g. If I am connected to the hub's wifi network and then move to the dead zone then I will see my device temporarily lose wifi and then connect to the extender's wifi (so for example on a mobile phone then the wifi symbol reverts to 3G/4G and then about 20 seconds later will pick up the extender In fact for me my extender is very central and so now generally works from anywhere ![]() Remember that the extender and the hub/router wireless operate as two separate WiFi networks and so your device will not see it as one network and connect to whichever has the stronger signal as you move around. Enter your normal hub/router password and the device joins the new network If you forget this step then your devices will simply be trying to connect to the hub as before and so you have achieved nothing! Note this is explained in the instruction booklet. It will be the name of your hub with _EXT appended to the name. But on each wireless device you want to connect, you have to manually select the SSID of the extender. I assumed the extender would simply extend the use the same SSID as the hub and authenticate automatically any device that had accessed the hub's wifi. Now this is where it is easy to think job done. Placement obviously depends on your circumstances (and whether you are using multiple extenders) but for one extender then find a socket about half way between your router and the dead zone You can now unplug the extender and move it. On the extender the WPS LED was now solid green and the router LED was now illuminated (solid green). Repeated the exercise and this time the wireless LED on the router illuminated blue (as it should be in normal use). After about 2 mins nothing had connected and everything had reverted back to the way it was). The wireless LED on the router then flashes orange (this will be router specific but valid for the BT hub in question) Then press the WPS button on the router. The WPS LED on the extender will flash green Don't be tempted to plug it in where you have the reception problem! Power button is amber at first and then turns green. Plug in the extender relatively near to your hub/router. Note that the supplied instructions for WPS setup in the booklet are good. I have a WPS button on my (BT Homehub 3) router and so opted to try that method. Was a bit concerned as there seems to be a few horror stories on setup. ![]()
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