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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 ...
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 | NETGEAR
Feed 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 .
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".
I couldn't get any further, but I did see the updates on the product page. That is the error message I get in safari, I just tried Firefox and got a similar unable to connect message. I sometimes also see this message when I try to login to the extender site, and it says I’m not connected to the extender, but according to network settings I am. Also I've tried Firefox and Safari on MacBook and iPhone. I'll try at my parents, they have a PC.
jusmottier wrote:
That is the error message I get in safari, I just tried Firefox and got a similar unable to connect message. I sometimes also see this message when I try to login to the extender site, and it says I’m not connected to the extender
How are you trying to login to the extender? Which address are you aiming at?
What is this "extender site" if it isn't the browser graphical user interface (GUI) for the thing?
As I said earlier, extenders and routers are not the same thing, especially when it comes to the login process.
Routers are pretty straightforward. Aim a browser at routerlogin.net or 192.168.1.1 and away you go.
Extenders don't have that "fixed" IP address or one that a router can translate, like routerlogin.net. The extender gets assigned an IP address by the router.
There are ways of finding the IP address for your extender. One way to do this is by checking the router and looking for the address it has given the extender. Then put that address into a browser.
It might help if you said which router is involved here.