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N7900-100NS and Nighthawk Mesh x6s IP Issues
In January 2018 I purchased my n7900 and it's been great so far with my only complaint being it's range. So about a month ago, on Prime Day, I purchased the Nighthawk Mesh X6S Extender and that's whe...
Nathan4wvu1986 wrote:
I purchased the Nighthawk Mesh X6S Extender
What model?
Nathan4wvu1986 wrote:
My wife's Mac products (which I hate) struggle to connect. They say "no IP" or "self assigned IP" or if they do connect they say "Another device on your network is using the same IP address". My android devices, TVs, Nest products, and work PC seem to be OK.
Does look like an Mac thing. How does she connect? Wifi? Told the Mac to forget the wifi connection and reconnected from scratch?
- EX8000-100NAS is the manufacturer model of the extender.
I'm going to back up and change this just a little. Last night when I plugged it in my TV wouldn't connect and the TV is hard wired to the router not the extender. Soon as I unplugged the extender the TV connected. The Mac devices, I've tried everything including setting them up on static IP. It's like when then extender connects it won't let anything not already connected to the modem connect. - She connects via WiFi and I have tried to release, reset, and delete the wifi connection from the Mac. Nothing worked.
Is the EX8000 in extender mode or AP mode?
Have you limited the DHCP server's address range to exclude any static IP addresses? Note that I mean device-configured static IP addresses, not reserved addresses in the router.
Is it still possible to exchange the extender at Amazon?
It is running in extender mode, not access point.
As for limiting the number of IPs, unless that's a default setting in either the router or the extender I'm not. Both are running default settings aside from the Wifi name and password. Currently, looking at Netgear Genie I have 19 devices connected to the main router and 1 connected to the extender.
