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N300 Model EX2700 won't connect using IP address to change setup
I keep getting an error when trying to access router to view and change setup. Different errors depending on browser, Chrome says err_connect_refused. Firefox says unable to connect may be busy or ...
diverjerR wrote:
Using tablet I am connected to the Ex2700 and IP address is 192.168.1.67.
The EX2700 is a wifi extender, not a router.
The IP address of your extender is down to the router. You can fix your extender's IP address, but who knows how you have set up your network?
It might help if you told people what the router is. What in front of the extender. It might also help if you told people what the modem is in front of the router, if there is one.
You might get more help, and find earlier questions and answers specific to your device, in the appropriate section for your hardware. That's probably here:
WiFi Range Extenders & Nighthawk Mesh - NETGEAR Communities
Yes, I know it is not a router as I was using it several years. In the past I have modified settings in the extender by entering the ip address of the extender. Yes similar to what I would do on router which is 192.168.1.1, but in this case the extender IP was 192.168.1.67. After that I enter username and password and all is well, but yesterday entering the IP address of extender didn't work. I do have the router doing dynamic addressing (I give it the starting IP and how many) and the extender is also getting a dynamic IP address. I could set the extender to an assigned IP, but haven't. I just have tablet connect to extender and can find the IP address of the extender via the tablet. Worked fine until yesterday.
Anyway, I finely got logged on the extender by going to URL address this site won't let me type that starts with mywifi in place of IP address and then logging in. It use to work fine by IP address, but now that method isn't working. However typing in the URL that can't be mentioned here works, so that gets the job done. I think I may have updated the extender firmware when I last logged on which was a year ago? Maybe that changed something about logging on to extender.
Ended up I didn't change anything in extender anyway, so all that for nothing.