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Debbys16's avatar
Debbys16
Follower
Jun 24, 2021

AC750 WiFi Range Extender Set Up

Hi 

 

I have just recieved my AC750 extender today but when I navigate on Chrome to  mywifiext webpage I do not get the screen I have seen in the tutorial with the New Extender Set up button.

 

What I get when the page loads is the screen in the attachment, any idea what I am doing wrong?

 

TIA

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  • antinode's avatar
    antinode
    Guru
    Jun 24, 2021

    > Netgear.jpg

     

       Welcome to the extender edition of what may be the worst error
    message in the world.  For an explanation (router-oriented), try:

     

          https://community.netgear.com/t5/x/x/m-p/1365830

     

       Briefly, the idea is that "[www.]routerlogin.net" (or ".com", or
    "orbilogin.net", ...) should point to your own router, but that's true
    only if you use your own router for DNS name resolution.  (Or, if the
    Netgear router can intercept your DNS queries.)  Regardless, you should
    be able to get to the thing using its IP address, if you can determine
    (or guess) that.  Normally, that would be something like "192.168.1.1"
    (for a plain router) or "192.168.0.1" (for a modem+router), but it could
    be different. ("10.0.0.1" is a typical alternate, for example.)


       A new complication arises if your web browser uses "DNS over HTTPS"
    (and some real-world DNS server directly).  In that case, those
    "routerlogin" names will typically take you to that misleading/useless
    Netgear error page.  Specifying the IP address (instead of a
    "routerlogin" name) should work, but there are some exotic cases where
    you might need to disable "DNS over HTTPS" in your browser.

     

       For an extender, you might look at an Attached Devices (or
    equivalent) report on your main router, to see if you can extract the IP
    address of the extender from that.