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Can't Access My Wifi Ext.net or 192.168.1.250
Flat out, I'll make this as basic as I can:
I can't access the my wifi ext.net or 192.168.1.250 to login to the extender. I've tried Internet Explorer, I've tried Chrome, I've tried Firefox. Every single time I get a "The Connection Has Timed Out" or something error.
I've already been to the Netgear page which is supposed to fix this, but nothing in there fixed it.
What do I do?
Extender works great, getting good speeds from both the 2GEXT and 5GEXT bands on my laptop and my iPad, I don't know why I can't login to the extender.
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Did you log into the router to see what IP address it assigned to the extender?
No, I have not logged into the router. Not even sure how to do that. Shouldn't the netgear mywifie x t dot net website automatically get me to the extender login, anyway?
plemans wrote:Did you log into the router to see what IP address it assigned to the extender?
not all routers pass the wifiext correctly.
but the router does assign an ip address to the extender. If you log into the router, it should have an attached device list or the equivalent.
What router are you using?
Nighthawk X4 AC2200 wifirange Extender,model ex7300 netgear
So, my private home network is not 192.168.1.xxx. The default IP address of an extender is 192.168.1.250, SO I had to go into my computer's WiFi network settings:
Change Dynamic to Static
Set Static IP to 192.168.1.5,
Set IP Mask to 255.0.0.0
Set DNS to 8.8.8.8 for now
THEN I could get to 192.168.1.250. Once you go through the setup wizard, you will not be able to get back to the extender, so then change your computer back to a dynamic IP address, and you are good to go.
The default IP for some of these Extenders is indeed 192.168.1.250/24 to be correct. The default subnet mask is 255.255.255.0, so very similar to many home networks. The only challenge (instead of reconfiguring everything in this case) would be to find the other device using the same address, reserve a different MAC address for the other device device.
Having the exact same issues. Have spent at least 4 hours searching the net and Netgear web pages trying to get into Admin. The nighthawk app is useless.
