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oldbutnotdead
Aug 29, 2020Guide
PLW1000V2 SETUP - PASSWORD CHANGE
I have a fully functional home network. I use a Motorola Arras cable modem / router which provides my access to the web. I have no problem accessing that device with my Android or laptop. I also have...
- Sep 01, 2020
The wifi app I have been referring to is my&wifiext.&et. When I first put that in the body of my text it generated an error message that said T"he message body contains my$wifiext.&et, which is not permitted in this community. Please remove this content before sending your post.". I have finally gotten into the configuration. I reset the PLW1000 to factory settings and installed from scratch. I had to use my old xP notebook and cabled from it to the adapter. I looked at a support document from when I first bought the devices and it said to use the ip address of the adapter rather than mywifiext in the browser. Using the ip address gave back "couldn't locate address" but mywifiext did come up and using admin/password finally gave me Genie. I tried that same thing with my Win 10 laptop and it failed. So to recap, I must have changed one of the access point SSID's to Babylon_6 when I set it up originally. The reset deleted Babylon_6 but it looks like I can change the access point names and passwords using Genie . At this point I don't see that is necessary. My two PLW's just connect to one Ring device each and the password for that is good enough for government work.
Just a note, that old XP computer was hardly ever used so any cache's were pretty much empty. It ran Internet Explorer dark ages version and the wireless and network setups were also stone age.
michaelkenward
Aug 31, 2020Guru - Experienced User
I don't understand the issue. Take this bit:
oldbutnotdead wrote:
I can connect to them using the SSID and password on adapter. Following instructions DOES NOT WORK.
What does it mean? You can use the wifi on the PLW1010 to connect to your network?
So, what does not work?
Unfortunately the phrase "does not work" could apply to many things so it doesn't help in diagnosing what might be going wrong.
Tell us what you are doing, what happens and what messages and errors you see.