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Aspirant

Jan 05, 2018

Solved

Initial setup

I am trying to do the initial setup. My network uses WEP so I was trying the manual setup. I have the solid green power light. I tried to connect my laptop to the extender. I found NETGEAR_EXT and...

Troubleshooting

Portwey84
Nov 23, 2020
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Nighthawk-WiFi-Routers/What-is-the-guest-network-for/td-p/497301

https://kb.netgear.com/24097/How-do-I-set-up-a-guest-network-on-my-Nighthawk-router

https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/guest-wifi/23843/

Sr. NETGEAR Moderator

Jan 10, 2018

Are you able to change the network to WPA2?

DarrenM

dw711
Aspirant
Jan 12, 2018
Just before I saw your reply, I tried a factory rest. After the reset I connected to NETGEAR_EXT, my browser went right to the setup page, and everything worked like a champ.