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feng192
Jun 27, 2023Follower
Netgear AX1600 Mesh Extender help
I have a TP-Link Deco Mesh Wifi and found that I had a spare extender (the Netgear AX1600) and thought I could use it together with the other units I have around the house. Tried to plug it in and s...
michaelkenward
Jul 04, 2023Guru - Experienced User
JackTrades wrote:
Purchased the ax1600 mesh extender eax12-100 na and have tried to link with the spectrum sax1v1k and have had no success.
Your message has not much to do with the original post from feng192 which remains unresolved.
So please do not break the rules of this place and hijack someone else's problem.
Start your own discussion.
schumaku
Jul 04, 2023Guru - Experienced User
michaelkenward wrote:
JackTrades wrote:
Purchased the ax1600 mesh extender eax12-100 na and have tried to link with the spectrum sax1v1k and have had no success.
Your message has not much to do with the original post ... which remains unresolved.
Agree. However, not sure why we have to pay attention to the OP posting SEO Spam and Scam in it's signature - especially with multiple reports are bluntly ignored by the Netgear moderators for months - and this kind of SEO garbage does come up in new posts of new community "members" with fake profiles almost daily.
Fun part is an obvious misreading or misinterpretation of the note in the EAX12 User manual
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Note: If your router’s WiFi security is set to WPA enterprise, WPA2 enterprise, or WEP,
your extender can’t connect to your router. You must change your router’s WiFi security
setting.
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This what made JackTrades disabling the Wireless Security to Open on his Spectrum SAX1V1K. 8-)
- michaelkenwardJul 04, 2023Guru - Experienced User
Agree. However, not sure why we have to pay attention to the OP posting SEO Spam and Scam in it's signature
That looked more like incompetence than a deliberate spam link.
- schumakuJul 04, 2023Guru - Experienced User
1. The incompetency is with the makers of this SaaS platform and it's broken Anti-spam detection.
2. The SEO Mafia does deliberately abuse community systems like these for years. and the poor moderators can cope with the junk, regardless of the (few) reporting unpaid users. Ask Dr. Google for locating similar junk...
3. ...Not difficult to locate other sources of incompetence, lack of training, lack of awareness, ... 8-/