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Nighthawk X6 EX7700 no internet issue
So, last week, I received my first copy of this pretty piece of trash. Spent 15 hours! trying to set up as a wifi extender. I could easily extend my Wifi and connect to the extender, but my devices...
Was able to set the extender up.. Used my laptop, got it to connect and show a connection to. (Default gateway listed as 192.168.1.250 for the extender, and 192.168.1.1 for the access point in the house)
I was able to go into the configuration menu on the extender and saw my ip, which ipconfig command confirmed. Everything was fine, yay.
Then I got my AS-WL300 (wifi adapter for pionner AVR) and connected it to my main rig to set it up. The WPS worked and it showed that there was a connection. I even saw both of them (one for the access point, another for the extender) and could switch between them.
I brought the adapter back to my AVR and connected it there. Network error.. gets stuck at "network setup" and never finishes that.
Looking at my phone, there's no connection.. "acquiring IP adress..."
Going back to my Laptop, I cannot login to the extender anymore.. and connecting to the extender results in:
No valid IP...
It looks as if connecting multiple device fuggs the whole thing up.
I'm so glad I spent over 100 bucks to get a wifi extender that can only handle one device...
I got lost in all of that.
The EX7700 is wifi extender. It exists to do what the name says, extend the wifi from a router or some other Internet source.
I have scanned through your messages a couple of time but, beyond a reference to a socket in the wall, I can seen any mention of the source of your Internet.Perhaps I just missed it.
michaelkenward wrote:The EX7700 is wifi extender. It exists to do what the name says, extend the wifi from a router or some other Internet source.
There is a short chapter on configuring the EX7700 as a wireless access point - should be not very difficult, in fact much less challenging than configuring an extender - in the fine manual. Lack of any insight what was really done, how the EX7700 config does currently look, if the router where the EX7700 is connected to is able to provide IP addresses, ... hard to help. Unless Netgear managed to break the EX7700 in AP mode just like the EX7000 since the intro of the Mesh firmware..
- As stated:
Setup as Access point is not working. I used the setup tool (genie) and the setup doesn't work.. But, plugging in ANY device directly to that socket, I get a perfectly fine internet connection, dynamic IP and everything.
Setup as extender,connected to the access point in the house (no router in this building) worked as long as there was only one device connected.
Mbphoto wrote:
Setup as extender,connected to the access point in the house (no router in this building) worked as long as there was only one device connected.That could be the issue. Extenders are there to feed off a router.
It is the router's job to handle the allocation of IP addresses to everything on your network. No router = no address management.
That could explain why only one device can connect.
Even as an access point the EX7700 needs a router for this task.
You may have bought the wrong thing. Not knowing how your Internet service works, it is hard to know if you need a router or something else.
- My EX7700 took DNS control when it was configured to R7000 using WPS. All seemed well until I connected a phone and a couple laptops to it which resulted in No Internet issue, despite them receiving valid IPs from R7000 DHCP.
