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jusmottier
Apr 08, 2023Aspirant
N300v3 router login
I am trying to login to my Netgear n300 v3 to download firmware. Tried to use the devices IP address (no error message, doesn't load) and the ext login address (error message: Safari can't open the page...because Safari can't connect to the server) but neither goes through. is there a reason it's not reaching the server? The router is maybe 8 years old, and has been disconnecting intermittently, so I wanted to download firmware.
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jusmottier wrote:
I am trying to login to my Netgear n300 v3 to download firmware.Not sure what that means. You don't login to the router to download firmware. You don't have to login to anything.
Visit the support pages:
Support | NETGEARFeed in your model number and check the documentation for your hardware.
Look for the model number on the label on the device.
That page will also have firmware for your device.
Check the section in the manual on updating the firmware.
There may also be some helpful videos on what to do.
Then there is this:
How do I manually upgrade firmware to my NETGEAR router? | Answer | NETGEAR Support
You have listed that you are using the N300 WiFi Range Extender (EX2700). But there is no V3 of that. And as the name says, it is a range extender, not a router.
N300 is a wifi speed label, not a model number, and one that Netgear has not used for quite some years. It dates back more than a decade.
Thanks to their age, most N300 routers are low spec, with 2.4 GHz as the wifi speed (no 5 GHz) and 100 Mbps as the Ethernet (WAN and LAN) speeds. That is slower than many Internet services. Newer routers do at least 1000 Mbps .
- jusmottierAspirant
sorry I got some details messed up in editing. it is a wifi extender and the model is WN3000RPv3. I was looking at this knowledge base pageHow-do-I-log-in-to-my-NETGEAR-WiFi-Range-Extender and How-do-I-update-the-firmware-on-my-NETGEAR-WiFi-Range-Extender
I have never logged into the extender or installed firmware, so I thought this may be the cause of connection problems. maybe it's not supported anymore, but my parents use it so it dosen't need to be fast or supply a lot of bandwidth.
thank you
It is old, from 2015, but there are still firmware updates for it.
WN3000RPv3 | N300 WiFi Range Extender | NETGEAR Support
Extenders aren't the same as routers.
You need a router to "feed" an extender.
You did well to find those KnowledgeBase articles. They should put you on the right track, but the details may have moved on since your parent's extender came out.
There's a section in the manual Update the Firmware. That might be more in line with your WN3000RPv3.
This could help too:
WN3000RPv3 Firmware Version 1.0.2.100 | Answer | NETGEAR Support
It is for the latest firmware update in 2021.
You say that "Safari can't connect to the server". What happens when you try. (Don't get confused by talk of "server".) Any error messages?
Tried a different browser? As is the way in things Apple, they go their own way and don't always play nicely with other systems. For example, Netgear specifically warns that the password recovery process "is supported in Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome browsers but not in the Safari browser".