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Headgear42
Aspirant
Jan 10, 2019

Connecting to Netgear wifi extender EX6 120

I have a wifi extender (EX6120) bought in UK in 2017. I live part of the year in South Africa and have tried several times to use the extender here. I cannot get it to work. Are the extenders program...
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Christian_R
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Jan 15, 2019

Hi Headgear42,

 

After resetting the extender by using a small paper clip you can find NETGEAR_EXT as a wifi network on a wireless device. From there, as StephenB mentions, browse to http://www.mywifiext.net.  and it will take you to the extender's web setup. 


~Christian 

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Headgear42
Aspirant
Jan 17, 2019

Hi Christian

I've gone through the process of resetting the extender and trying to set it up at least 10 times and it is driving me absolutely nuts. At the end of the process, when the manual says that I should connect to the extended network before hitting the "continue" button, as soon as I try to connect, the screen goes blank and there is no longer any "continue" button to click. Please believe me, I am reasonably intelligent and quite computer literate, but I am still at a loss as to how to complete the set-up.