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AX6000 AX 8 Mesh extender
Hi I have the above on the 2nd floor of my building connected to a Fritzbox 7530 on the 1st floor by ethernet cable. We are unable to connect to my Chromecast and SONOS. A bit of research suggested...
Sonos devices have issues on mesh systems. Do a search on their forums and you'll find a ton of posts about it.
Make sure that if you have a bridge, its only connected to the router and not the extender.
Something else you can try is setting static ip addresses on your devices.
AX8 isn't a model number either.
do you have this? https://www.netgear.com/support/product/eax80.aspx
That's the actual model number.
You can log into the extender using its ip address (found in the fritzbox's attached devices page).
You can also try mywifiext . com but that doesn't always work depending on the fritzbox.
If you log in there, it'll also let you look at the status page that might help show connection issues.
Yes that's what I have.
Another frustrating hour with Netgear support last night.
In the end gave up with them.
Some of the complication was having a guest network which is used for the SONOS and Chromecast, but not to communicate with the router. This was a problem in trying to use the app. Cracked it in the end though. Now set up in mesh mode again. Still have issue with extender using different IP addresses. This necessitates turning phone wifi off and on again to control SONOS and Chromecast. Am I going to be able to do anything about this? I know I can fix the IP address on the router, can I do that on the extender? Do I want to , it will compromise my security?
Thanks for your input so far.
JKW
Sonos devices have issues on mesh systems. Do a search on their forums and you'll find a ton of posts about it.
Make sure that if you have a bridge, its only connected to the router and not the extender.
Something else you can try is setting static ip addresses on your devices.
Thanks for that.
Ill research SONOS and static IP addresses.