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Jpeart01
Aug 17, 2016Aspirant
N300 WiFi Range Extender taking up all my bandwidth.
I called my isp to complain about slow internet speeds, they looked up my usage and all that jazz. Literally 99% of my bandwidth was being taken up by the extender uploading something. At the time i ...
DarrenM
Aug 19, 2016Sr. NETGEAR Moderator
Hello Jpeart01
Have you made sure you firmware is up to date? also you may want to factory reset your device and connect it to the router again.
DarrenM
- Jpeart01Aug 25, 2016Aspirant
I did a hard reset, that sped things up for a whole 5 minutes or so. Not sure how to update the firmware, so no I have not done that. Any advice you could give me on the process?
- DarrenMAug 26, 2016Sr. NETGEAR Moderator
Hello Jpeart01
Log into your extender by going to www.mywifiext.net use the login of admin/password then go to firmware and click check. Then you should be able to update it.
DarrenM