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Jpeart01
Aspirant
Aug 17, 2016

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 ...
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Jpeart01
Aspirant
Aug 25, 2016

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?

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DarrenM
Sr. NETGEAR Moderator
Aug 26, 2016

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