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RoxieChurch
Aspirant
Apr 18, 2019

Wifi Booster Requires Password?

I recently purchased this Wifi Range Extender, it works great....but only when the product it is trying to connect to supports WPS connection, for some reason ever since I updated router (its still a...
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schumaku
Guru - Experienced User
Apr 18, 2019

WPS does "magically" bring the primary router wireless password to the exender in a light secured way. That's the one you use for connecting manually to the router and the extender.

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RoxieChurch
Aspirant
Apr 20, 2019
Will I need to redo my Booster set up to find a password then?
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    Christian_R
    NETGEAR Employee Retired
    Apr 25, 2019

    Hi RoxieChurch, 

     

    Thanks for your post. Yes, you can factory resetting the extender and going through the setup instructions again. 


    ~Christian