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EAX80 - Cannot Access Settings
Man oh man, I have so many issues with my EAX80 / AX6000 Nighthawk Mesh Extender: 1. http://mywifiext.local/ loads, but clicking on the button "New Extender Setup" does nothing on Firefox, Chrome, o...
Using http://www.mywifiext.com/ works for me on firefox and chromium.
Searching for new firmware versions is possible from within the nighthawk app:
- click on the small home button in the upper left corner
- Settings (first column below the device selection)
- Router settings (first column)
- scroll down to the bottom of the page, click "search for updates"
(the actual naming might differ slightly, as I've translated them back)
Thank you for the reply. Your idea about in-app updates works for my router, but not for the Mesh Extender I am asking about. If you switch products to the extender and then follow the same steps, there are no "Router Settings" - just "WiFi settings."
I'm a bit desperate for a solution - I just tried upgrading my router to a Nighthawk X6S / AC4000 Tri-band to see if I can just ditch the EAX80 all together, but no dice. I need to either return that router and swap my whole system out for a dedicated mesh network (and I will leave the Netgear brand if I do this), or I need to get this darn EAX80 to actually work, not make my network worse.
My #3 from my original post is what I am talking about. I need my devices to connect to the nearest device, not just the EAX80 the entire time. Crazy that its wireless signal from a different floor on a different side of the house overpowers the X6S on the same floor! This even happens when the EAX is two floors away!You're right, as I wasn't in physical proximity to my eax80, I had to extrapolate a bit.
If you use the android app, you can find the current IP address of your eax80 under network overview and tapping on the eax80 repeater icon. This will show you the MAC address and local IPv4 address of your EAX80, a webinterface is listening on this IP address and you can access it using the username and password you assigned to to your device earlier.
If you happen to be wirelessly connected to the BSSID of your EAX80 - or have connected a notebook via ethernet to one of its four ethernet ports, you can also use
http: <slash><slash> mywifiext <dot> net
"Firmware Update" is in the left menu frame, third entry from the top.
Thank you for the reply, although unfortunately none of this helps.
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you can also use
http: <slash><slash> mywifiext <dot> net
Please see the first point of my original post; this website does not work for me in Friefox, Chrome, or Edge on either of my two computers tested, or on my phone for Firefox mobile or Chrome mobile.
> you can find the current IP address of your eax80 under network overview and tapping on the eax80 repeater icon. This will show you the MAC address and local IPv4 address of your EAX80
Yeah, the default 192.168.1.250 - but this takes me to the same broken page above.
Please see the attached screenshot for what I mean by broken. This is what I see when I click the only button on the page - New Extender Setup - on any device, in any browser - no change at all (except for a minor URL change to http://mywifiext.local/ra_check_TC.htm). This is with Adblock+ disabled.
