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RAX54v2
I have an extender connected to my router Wi-Fi and I cannot see any devices connected to that Extender with my Nighthawk app. I cannot see it while logged into my Netgear on the computer either. I cannot see devices connected to the extender. Please help me figure out what to do
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What extender do you have?
What router do you have
Do you have anything connected to the extender?
You can log into it? Do you have a screensnip of the status page through the browser?
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My router is an AX 5400 6. The extender is AOOEPU
The extender does not show up on my list of attached devices nor does anything connected on the other side of the extender. Here is a photo of everything attached and it's not there
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So the router works fine but the generic knockoff extender doesn't?
Why aren't you contacting the company that makes the extender?
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the problem is with how extenders work.
The router gives them (extender) an IP address. The extender takes that address and assigns virtual IP addresses to the connected devices. This is how you can connect more devices to a router than it allows. Because the extender is assigning its own virtual IP addresses. If it doesn't communicate how its doing this with the protocol the router uses, the router will have nothing to display.
When you buy generic devices, you suddenly have limitations because they aren't the latest/greatest/or use the best protocols. So you have to work with their limitations. I've had to do that with IoT devices because of that. Netgear isn't going to suddenly implement a policy to "fix" their extenders or implement a new protocol based of a generic extender that uses who knows what protocol for its setup.
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Log into the extenders IP address.
It should have its own management setup/features.
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What mode did you set the extender up in? Is it hardwired in or wireless?
Is it in wisp mode? Extender mode?
Got a screensnip of the attached devices page?
I'm curious if you have it in a different mode that's assigning a different IP subnet from the router and that's causing your issues. Do the devices attached to the extender get a different subnet range from the router?
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