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Connecting more than one range extender
Is it possible to connect more than one range extender to my R6300v2 router? The ideal extender placement for 5G Roku feed does not provide adequate feed to tablets / smartphones in the living room....
Right.
That's in principle, but to accomplish the second extender link, the page mywifiext.com has to somehow distinguish between the two EX6100's so that each one can be programmed. That's the issue -- unless an additional feature pops up in the mywifiext.com site to allow the user to address more than one Range Extender, this idea of a second extender may not work.... please let me know if this can be done and how.
The trick is to establish a connection with the extender that you want to set up, either through the extender's Wi-Fi signal or through its Ethernet port. mywifiext.com does not lead to any website on the Internet. It is intercepted by the extender, which will respond with its own IP address. The same technique is used for connecting to your own router using routerlogin.com.
Thanks, I see what you're saying. Given that I do my Netgear setup/programming from my PC, then just set up one extender at a time. I already gave the 5G and 2G networks on my first extender distinctive names. Once I get the second extender, those additional extender networks will come with the factory default names and can then be selected/connected to from the PC.
The principle you're saying is that it should be possible to then program the second extender without in any way affecting what's already been programmed on the first extender -- sound right?
Right.