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Can't rename 5G network
Today my antivirus prompted me to upgrade this router's firmware, and with that came a factory reset of the router. I'm in the process of renaming the networks and resetting the passwords and can't r...
nvm, apparently this can't be done in the "genie". I got it to work via http://www.routerlogin.net/
nvm, apparently this can't be done in the "genie". I got it to work via http://www.routerlogin.net/
> [...] apparently this can't be done in the "genie". I got it to work
> via http://www.routerlogin.net/
Ah. Normally, when someone says "Genie", I include boilerplate like
the following:
Which "the Genie"? Ever helpful, Netgear uses the name "Genie"
for more than one thing. Netgear routers have a web-browser
interface called "Genie", and Netgear offers application programs
for various computers/pads/phones, which are also called "Genie".
Your "Genie UI" left me believing that you were using the web-browser
interface, not one of the Genie apps.
I don't use the Genie apps, so I know nothing, but I would not be
amazed if such an app refused to reconfigute the network interface which
it was using to control the router.
Primary lesson: "Genie" is not a complete description of anything.
(And, as always, "Never assume."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEoFFYH_m0Q )
mapcat wrote:
nvm, apparently this can't be done in the "genie". I got it to work via http://www.routerlogin.net/
As you have found the various genies are blunt instruments. The browser interface is usually more capable.
I chip in to point out that sometimes the desktop (Windows at least) genie does things that are broken in the browser interface. For example, the Windows genie can name devices in the R7800's network map, whereas the browser interface lost that feature in the a recent firmware update.
Don't go anywhere near the NIghthawk apps.
