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AC1200 Wifi Extender Can't Connect to Xfinity Gateway
Hello, I am having trouble getting my Xfinity Gateway (XB8-T) to recognize my wifi extender. Sadly, it was connecting fine with the old gateway model and I was upgraded for free and now can't get i...
I ended up ordering a new Wi-Fi extender, different brand and it was simple to connect and is working great. I can only assume something crapped out with the netgear. I didn’t want to go with the pods in case I ever change network providers. Luckily it worked at half the cost of the pods
EX6150v2. I have looked quite a bit through all the posts on the site here. I have factory reset several times using a safety pin, the green light blinks and turns green. I tried the WEP connection process pushing the button on both the extender and the gateway. The gateway blinks blue. The extender sometimes never has the router light come on at all, sometimes it goes red and then blacks out.
I have tried going to the wifi for the extender, clicking it and starting the setup steps of creating a password, adding my network ID and passwords etc. It goes through the full setup process recognizing my internet settings but when it finishes, it says its not connected. My devices connect to the extender and the "network" i created 2G or 5G, but because the extender didn't properly connect to my internet router, it doesn't work.
Thanks for the model number. I see no reason why the WPS connection method should not work. Notice that you have to perform it two times: once for 2.4G and once for 5G.
(page 10: https://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/EX6150v2/EX6150v2_UM_EN.pdf)
(also notice that WEP is an older security protocol that this device does not support. consumer WiFi routers quit using WEP more than 10 years ago.)
