Tips To Extend Wireless Network Range with Netgear Genie Setup

Are you living in a large room or apartment? If so, maybe you are facing WiFi connectivity issues. The only solution behind this all is to expand the currently present wireless home network range. And you can easily do so with the Netgear Genie setup.

With Netgear WiFi extender you can maintain a reliable and strong WiFi signal throughout your premises. So, let's begin with some basic and easy guidelines to get Netgear genie setup job done, go fully with this post.

Setup Main WiFi Router as a Base Station

Ensure that your main router is connected well with your laptop or desktop physically with the help of Ethernet cable. This particular step will allow you to visit directly into the WiFi router.

Try to login into your main WiFi router. For this, just open any of your preferred web browsers and enter the default IP address. Mention the default username and password, and click on the login button. (If you not re-configured the default username and passphrase key.)

Try to Find the Basic Wireless Configuration Settings

Ensure that your main WiFi router is delivering the strongest network signals.

Further, if you haven't changed the main Network SSID name, do that once. Just make a note of it and keep it aside. This will help you out in setting up the new extender and also help you to access mywifiext setup login page.

Choose Either Signal Repeat Settings or Repeating Functions

Here you will find an option to activate the wireless repeating function over your home network system. At this particular state, you will be able to establish your currently existing router as your base station. On the other hand, ensure that you have chosen the base station functions for this particular router and not for the Netgear extender setup settings.

Mention Your Main Router or Range Extender MAC Address

The Media Access Control or MAC address for your range extender is printed on the back or side panel over a sticker. The MAC address is of twelve characters that include, both alphabet and numerical characters. Further, they are separated into eight groups, separated by a colon in a group of two characters. For example, 23:01:45:a5:67:98:ef.

Unplug the ethernet cable from the main base station and try to connect it with your wireless range extender to continue for Netgear Genie setup. The next step is to login into your Netgear range extender using a different web browser and types mywifiext.net in the address bar field.

Visit the basic settings and make sure that your range extender is communicating well with your specific wireless home network, just by typing the correct SSID network, that you are using for your base station.

Mention Your Base Station's MAC Address

The MAC address for your base station is present just behind the back panel on a sticker. It will be equivalent in look as of MAC address for the Netgear wireless extender. Carefully save the configuration settings and remove your range extender from your desktop or laptop that you are currently using with it.

In the end, find a suitable location for your range extender to place it. It should be within the network range of your currently existing wireless router. Try to keep your range extender from microwave, treadmill, walls, windows, doors, etc. With this method, you will get a maximum and strong signal strength.

We hope our this particular article section, helps you to extend wireless network range with Netgear Genie setup. Somehow, if still, you face the problem with network wireless range or some other problem related to the range extender. Share with us through comments, we are here to affix every Netgear extender problem.

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