NETGEAR is aware of a growing number of phone and online scams. To learn how to stay safe click here.
Forum Discussion
EX7000 ethernet only bridge mode
I have an EX7000 range extender and I want to run it ONLY as a wifi bridge for my workstation computer with ethernet only. Current firmware. I'm connecting to community wifi from my apartment complex...
I'll try mywifiext.local instead of .net. I can't see the IP of the extender because it's community wifi so I don't have a way to see devices connected
Wait, I'm pretty sure I've tried the local URL before and it didn't work. It seems to be Mac only. Is it a known bug that prevents mywifiext from working? If there's no solution I might just return the EX7000 and try the Linksys RE9000 instead even though it's more expensive
Again, once connected to the community wifi, www.mywifiext.net is inaccessible and so is .local. I'm just going to exchange it for a Linksys
.local isn't mac-only and should have worked with Windows. https://kb.netgear.com/000045264/How-do-I-update-the-firmware-on-my-Nighthawk-Mesh-WiFi-Range-Extender
JackalopeTX wrote:
Again, once connected to the community wifi, www.mywifiext.net is inaccessible
To be clear, it won't work if your device is connected to the community wifi, but it should work if you are connected to the extender wifi.
Of course it wouldn't work if the computer is connected to the community wifi. When the *EX7000* is connected to community wifi the mywifiext.net and mywifiext.local don't work. I have now tried both URLs on a Mac and a PC. The only way I can access settings is by doing a hard reset so that th EX7000 is not extending any network. I don't think it's a defect or a bug, I think it's a design flaw.
