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New router & password, can't connect WN2500RP
I have searched the help here, but can't find a solution ... my landlady got a new router with a new password. I can connect with hard wire but also need my wireless extender to work. From what I can tell after pushing the button in the back, it can see the new router, but needs the new password. How do I do that?
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If your landlady's router supports WPS (there is a good chance that it does), then you can use it to connect your extender to her router without the password. You will want to follow the instructions on page 13 of the manual. Basically, push the WPS button on your extender and push the WPS button on her router within 2 minutes. If her router supports both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz Wi-Fi, then you'll need to do this process twice to connect both bands.
The other option, of course, is to ask your landlady for the password. If she didn't change the default settings on her router, then the Wi-Fi password(s) will be printed on a label attached to the router. Again, if the router is dual-band (i.e. 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz), there will be two SSID's and two passwords. Then follow the instructions (page 15, 22 or 33) in the manual to enter the password into the extender.
I have the new router name and password...I just don't know how to provide this new information to my extender. I have successfully connected my computers which are connected via cable. I need to get the new info to the extender so I can connect my printer, ipad, and phone.
- Please open the link to the manual that I provided above and follow the instructions on either page 15, 22 or 33.
The web links to www.mywifiext.net and www.mywifiext.net take me to error pages. Apparently what I need is to somehow log into Maintenance ->set password, but the web page it says to go to does not work.
Did you first connect your computer to the extender's Wi-Fi network (NETGEAR_EXT) or Ethernet port? You must do that in order for www.mywifiext.net to work.
