- Sep 23, 2014
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Hi. I have a linksys E2500 router, and I've tried two different range extenders (a netgear and a belkin) and had the same problem with both.
I set up the extender to access my router's wifi, and given the extender a different SSID. Any device connected to the extender's wifi cannot see the internet. It can see devices on the local network connected to the router's wifi. (ping, web server, NAS file transfer) It cannot ping the router itself, nor access the router's configuration page via web browser.
The first extender I tried had 4 ethernet connections, and if I connected that way, I could access the internet and everything locally.
All this makes me think it is something my router is stopping, not the extender. I don't see anything suspicious in the logs on the router. I've tried turning off the router's firewall, setting the router to use different channels to no avail.
Update: I am using a plug-in extender, not a router as an extender.
I set up the extender to access my router's wifi, and given the extender a different SSID. Any device connected to the extender's wifi cannot see the internet. It can see devices on the local network connected to the router's wifi. (ping, web server, NAS file transfer) It cannot ping the router itself, nor access the router's configuration page via web browser.
The first extender I tried had 4 ethernet connections, and if I connected that way, I could access the internet and everything locally.
All this makes me think it is something my router is stopping, not the extender. I don't see anything suspicious in the logs on the router. I've tried turning off the router's firewall, setting the router to use different channels to no avail.
Update: I am using a plug-in extender, not a router as an extender.
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