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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...
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.
can ping, but cannot retreive any name....
One aspect here is that Windows 10 has shifted from NetBios discovery to WS-Discovery (Web Services Dynamic Discovery). I don't know if the EX6120 supports WSD, but I am guessing not.
So this might be something you just need to live with.
I tested it under Linux and it doesnt work better than with windo
Still, why can the router detect new assigned name for PC while it can not do the same for the Wifi Extender ?