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EX6120 Wifi Extender CANNOT change its name
Hi,
In the IP ADRESS / NAME OF DEVICE : " ******* "
Whatever the new name I m trying to give the EX6120 Wifi Extender / saving.
The original extender name will still display in Browser when...
If I understand you correctly, you are assigning this name in the router - is that correct?
If so, the extender isn't the problem - it has no idea that the router has assigned it a name. The router doesn't reconfigure the devices with the assigned names It tracks the names on its own.
Hi Stephen,
not really, the field where I set its new name is part of the Config Panel of the Wifi extender itself...
The Extender offers the option to be asigned with a new network name - as I understand it - so that all other network devices would/should read...
So the Router down the line is just picking up "some" name the Extender should now be sending it. But instead of this, it keeps on displaying some "factory/firmware model name" ..and not the "new name" recorded from within the Extender.
If I do a similar renaming operation with my Pc, the router DOES display the new name in its DHCP client list...so the Router is (obviously) working fine... I m not using any of the Router's own "renaming feature" at all...
Somehow, even though the Extender record its new name, (even after rebooting both, the router and the extender)..it does not indeed send/share THIS name to the other devices on the network...* which makes me think of a bug from the Wifi Extender itself
See, pix. Hope it got clearer this time...
tkx
Can you try "pinging" the extender using the name you set from a PC?
With Windows you can also use ping -a IP-address and Windows will attempt to resolve the name.