User Guide
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- 1. Overview
- 2. Get started
- 3. Maintain and monitor the extender
- Change the extender login user name and password
- Turn password protection off and on
- Recover a forgotten user name or password
- Automatically adjust for daylight saving time
- Manually set the extender clock
- Back up and manage the extender configuration
- Return the extender to its factory default settings
- Update the extender firmware
- Restart the extender from the extender web interface
- 4. Extender Network Settings
- Enable or disable One WiFi Name
- Enable or disable smart connect
- View connected devices
- View WiFi settings
- Change the WiFi network name
- Turn off the SSID broadcast to create a hidden network
- Disable or enable the WiFi radios
- Change the WiFi speed
- Use WPS to add a computer to the extender’s WiFi network
- Deny access to a computer or WiFi device
- Set up an access schedule
- Change the extender’s device name
- Set up the extender to use a static IP address
- Configure a router with advanced MAC settings to work with your extender
- Boost your video streaming with FastLane technology
- Enable or disable 20/40 MHz coexistence
- 5. FAQs and troubleshooting
- 6. Supplemental information
Chapter 4 Extender Network Settings
Enable or disable One WiFi Name...................................................36
Enable or disable smart connect......................................................37
View connected devices....................................................................38
View WiFi settings...............................................................................39
Change the WiFi network name.......................................................40
Turn off the SSID broadcast to create a hidden network..............41
Disable or enable the WiFi radios....................................................42
Change the WiFi speed.....................................................................43
Use WPS to add a computer to the extender’s WiFi network.......44
Use WPS with the push button method......................................44
Use WPS with the PIN method.....................................................45
Deny access to a computer or WiFi device.....................................47
Set up an access schedule.................................................................48
Change the extender’s device name...............................................49
Set up the extender to use a static IP address................................50
Configure a router with advanced MAC settings to work with your
extender...............................................................................................51
Boost your video streaming with FastLane technology.................52
Enable or disable 20/40 MHz coexistence......................................54
Chapter 5 FAQs and troubleshooting
FAQs.....................................................................................................57
Find the extender’s IP address..........................................................58
Cannot connect to the extender.......................................................59
Cannot join a WiFi network and receive an error message..........59
Cannot access mywifiext.net.............................................................60
Chapter 6 Supplemental information
Factory default settings......................................................................63
Technical and environmental specifications...................................64
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AC1750 WiFi Mesh Extender