I have successfully setup my extender to my secure wifi network. When I scan available networks I noticed that the extender is also boosting my neighbors open wifi signal. How do I stop this from occurring? Do I uncheck "enable SSID broadcast" in advance settings? Or do I set up wireless card access list? I am really frustrated with this extender since I have had to mess with it almost weekly.
That is the problem. My neighbor's wifi is open - no password. Lets say his wifi SSID is 'oldman'. If I don't have my extender on, the only wifi network that shows up is 'oldman'. As soon as I turn on my extender, I get my wifi extended as well as 'oldman_ext'. Since it is an open wifi anyone can use it and drag down my connectivity, hence why I am asking the question on how to stop this...
Thanks I did the factory reset which made me find out why I thought I was boosting the neighbors wifi. This is funny. With a factory reset, the password is "password". Well I logged and went through the setup process only to realize that my neighbor not only got a Netgear extender within a day of me...but he left his extender at factory defaults so I was actually logged into his extender. What are the odds? Anyway, I got the answer in a very round about way that my extender was not boosting his signal. Thanks!
