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help with NETGEAR WiFi Mesh Range Extender EX8000
Just finished configuring my new EX8000 and its working great but seeing some odd behavior on my FIOS home WIFI router that is the network access point being extended. So on the FIOS router, I cont...
Potentially you're getting notices when devices swith from the fios router to the extender. Have you checked to see if it corresponds to that? Its device controlled and not router/extender controlled when it switches between them.
I'm not sure what a fix is for you with scheduling since its going through the fios router and being controlled by the fios device. the netgear extender doesn't have parental controls/circle/etc.
So - when I had a D-LINK extender set up (the d-link just plain stopped working for some reason, and was unable to re-set it no matter how many tries, so I upgraded to the NETGEAR EX8000) I was prompted to do so with network names that included a "EXT" to indicate they were extensions of the primary network names - where as with the EX8000 it just took the names of the existing 2G/5G networks I had established in the FIOS router.
Can I modify the EX8000 network names to be unique and set unique passcodes so that I only allow devices to attach to those extended netowrks rather than the main FIOS WIFI router netowrks unless a device has also specifically already authenticated to one of those networks?
I still dont understand why the profiles/rules and schedule did not work when I used the FIOS router to "PAUSE" internet access on devices I knew were my childrens, unless somehow they are being dynamically allocated new IPA's when attaching to the EX8000 and thus my rules were not in affect as they were set against different IPA or original IPA ?
Does the EX8000 via NIGHTHAWK interface allow me to shedule a routine like disabling intrernet access at a specific time for a configured network by its name or allow for device by device admin control/access control via scheduled routines?
Thanks again
Murph
yes you can set unique names for the EX8000 wireless network. Just log into the extender and change the ssids
Again, I don't believe the nighthawk has any of its own scheduling routines. Those come from the router. maybe if you setup the unique ssid or set static ip addresses for your devices, the routines would stick