NETGEAR EAX20 – AX1800 WiFi Mesh Extender is designed for the future of WiFi with its large capacity, quick speed, and expanded coverage. It extends faster WiFi to the most remote area of your house and takes advantage of a superior connected home experience.
How Netgear EAX20 – AX1800 WiFi Mesh Extender Works?
Extender functions as a bridge between the WiFi router and a WiFi device and the extender connects to a functional WiFi network and does two primary functions.
- When the extender acts as a network client while forming a WiFi connection to an already existing network.
- For WiFi devices, the extender works as an access point.
WiFi devices can join the extender’s broadcast of its own network. The extender’s function as an access point includes broadcasting its network name (SSID), among other functions typically carried out by WiFi routers
Always make sure that the ends of the bridge are at right place and to do that extender must complete each of these tasks. Now, proceed and learn about the configuration of Netgear EAX20 – AX1800 WiFi Mesh Extender.
Steps to Setup Netgear EAX20 – AX1800 WiFi Mesh Extender
Just simply follow these steps to complete the Netgear WiFi Mesh Extender setup.
Place Extender and Apply Power: Before Setup
- Always ensure that WiFi router and extender should be kept in the same room. Only during the first setup phase, it is necessary to place it next or near to the WiFi router.
- Connect the extender to a power source.
- Now, for the Power LED to turn into solid white light.
Connect With Netgear Installation Assistant
- Firstly, you need to connect your extender with the existing WiFi router. Just simply open the WiFi settings on your WiFi enabled device which is computer or mobile. There you need to locate and connect with the extender network, which is named as NETGEAR_EXT.
- After connecting with the extender network, just open a web browser and there you need to type mywifiext.net and press enter.
- Now, you need to log in to the mywifiext interface, by entering the username and password. To know these credentials, you can check the label of extender for username and password.
- Once you are logged in, the Netgear Installation displays to you. All you have to do is now, to follow the on-screen instructions to complete the configuration process.
Here your setup of Netgear EAX20 – AX1800 WiFi Mesh Extender is completed successfully, now you can relocate the extender.
Place Extender and Apply Power: After Setup
After the configuration, you can move the extender to its new place; where you want to extend the WiFi signal or the network is poor.
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- To find the optimised location for the extender-to-router connection, use the Router Link LED.
li>To optimise the best network you need to plug in the extender into an outlet and check the router Link LED. If the Router Link LED doesn’t turn white. li>Until the Router Link LED becomes white, keep relocating the extender to outlets nearer the router
After the placement, just re-connect to the newly expanded WiFi network using your computer or mobile device.
Conclusion
In summary, we can say that extender functions as bridge between WiFi router and WiFi device in Netgear EAX20 – AX1800 WiFi Mesh Extender. You can even easily setup the extender using Netgear installation.
