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Sweejak
Jul 29, 2020Aspirant
Desktop App
I don't use a smartphone and I need a desktop application for my router. Mac OS. Please advise.
- Aug 05, 2020
The router is defective, so says the IT guy I called in to help me.
Sweejak
Jul 29, 2020Aspirant
By networks I mean wireless networks, I had 3 of them. I don't know how to elaborate more on that. For instance the Netgear router allowed me to set up named wireless networks to which various computers could connect such as a "Guest network" as does my old Apple router.
I attempted to connect thru both routerlogin.net and routerlogin.com
The WISP system is run by Texasdata. I don't know what equipment they use but I reckon it's manufactured by Motorola. And yes I have a good connection thru my old Apple router.
I don't know what all the other buttons were doing when I pressed the WiFi button but IIRC the reset button was blinking.
The reset button means, I think, basically a restart.
Of course I know the buttons and lights have different names although the icons are painfully hard to see.
All the lit buttons on the router blink when I press the reset.
The only tests I ran were pressing the reset button, unplugging the router, unplugging the modem and reattaching them.
I got the IP address from a site called "What's my IP". I don't know what it was when it was connected to the netgear but I think it was 104.167.54.10 I'm confused about ip addresses too, my notes indicate that the router was to be addressed to 192.168.1.1
The old Apple router is the last one Apple made, an Apple Airport Extreme, 6th Generation.
Does Netgear make an application similar to Apple's Airport utility?
I will try a direct ethernet connection before I go for a hard paperclip reset. Do you have any idea why my networks would suddenly be lost overnight on a computer that was sleeping?
Sweejak
Aug 05, 2020Aspirant
The router is defective, so says the IT guy I called in to help me.