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evillanueva112
Aspirant
Jun 22, 2016

Powerline 500 wifi Access point

I wanted to put a new SSID and pwd since I havent changed it in a long time. So I went on the netgear powerline utility 3.1.0.4 and tried changing it. Right click on xwn5001, clicked on wireless config. From there changed the name and pwd......said wireless setting failed. So I resetted both devices, re-connected them. Added my router to XAV5201 with ethernet so xwn5001 will have internet connection. Now I am hard wired on the xwn5001, repeated the steps of changing the name and pwd and still failing. Now that I have resetted it the XWN5001 is on default and there is no security on it so I cant even use it because it is unsecured. Anyone Please Help!!!

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  • evillanueva112's avatar
    evillanueva112
    Aspirant
    Jun 22, 2016

    I fiorgot to mention that as you can see fromt he bottom pic, this is suppose to be the other way to change the SSID and PWD but clicking the link but there is no ip address. I have tried turning off my firewall and antivirus and still nothing.

     

     

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    • JamesGL's avatar
      JamesGL
      NETGEAR Employee Retired
      Jun 30, 2016

      Hi evillanueva112,

       

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