- Aug 18, 2016
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Yesterday I tried changing the password on my Netgear R6250 Router by logging in to www.routerlogin.net and updating the password. Afterwards - I had the worst time getting my wifi to connect to the network. I ended up calling Netgear's tech support and spoke to a gentleman who remotely logged into my desktop and ran some scans. At that point he came back and said my registry was corrupted and tried to sell me an internet subscription to a firewall service, and some sort of net security. It turns out my free AVG had expired which he said caused the problem.
Long story short - I declined fearing a scam. He said if I didn't purchase whatever it was that he was selling that he couldn't help me with my router connectivity issues so I hung up and somehow fixed it on my own by reading several tech forums.
Now...I noticed that when I search for my wireless network, I see my regular secure network "Direwolf" and another network that has a similar name with a bunch of mumbo jumbo at the end "DireWolf cCastA.a". The W in Wolf is capitalized on this one and I have no clue what all those letters are at the end. The network shows "Open" with a signal that isn't very strong. The only other thing I did yesterday was to try and reconnect my Linksys Range Extender but I don't imagine that would cause another network to appear.
I'm lost!
Long story short - I declined fearing a scam. He said if I didn't purchase whatever it was that he was selling that he couldn't help me with my router connectivity issues so I hung up and somehow fixed it on my own by reading several tech forums.
Now...I noticed that when I search for my wireless network, I see my regular secure network "Direwolf" and another network that has a similar name with a bunch of mumbo jumbo at the end "DireWolf cCastA.a". The W in Wolf is capitalized on this one and I have no clue what all those letters are at the end. The network shows "Open" with a signal that isn't very strong. The only other thing I did yesterday was to try and reconnect my Linksys Range Extender but I don't imagine that would cause another network to appear.
I'm lost!
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