My Netgear WiFi Extender is Not Pairing with Router. Help!
It hardly matters whether you say that the extender is not pairing with the router or it is refusing the connection with the router. Both mean the same. Now, the thing is that you are facing a connectivity issue between your Netgear extender and its main router that needs to be fixed anyhow.
To ease off those worry lines on your forehead, we have penned down this post that will share some easy and complex troubleshooting techniques that can be adopted to fix the pairing issue between your WiFi devices. You can try accessing the mywifiext.net setup wizard at the end of every troubleshooting tip just to confirm whether the problem is fixed or not. Read on.
Fixed: Netgear WiFi Extender Not Pairing with Router
Reduce the Gap
This point automatically holds the importance when you have made the pairing request with the help of the WPS approach. Know that when you attempt to connect two devices through the WPS method, they are supposed to present within each other’s range. If you keep them away, you cannot expect their WiFi signals to communicate and facilitate you with a large WiFi coverage. The case is as same the Bluetooth connectivity. Therefore, you need to reduce the gap separating your Netgear WiFi extender and its main router. Try to keep them in the same room for an effortless pairing. You can separate them after they get paired. But, the thumb rule of keeping them in the range still applies.
Check the Ethernet Connection
The Ethernet connection between your Netgear WiFi range extender and the main router must be checked now. Do you find any cuts on the cable? If you do, then it is quite obvious why your Netgear WiFi extender is not pairing with the router. So, you should get the current cable replaced with a new one. The new one should not be damaged in any case. In addition to being free of damages, the cable used by you is supposed to be tightly connected to the LAN and WAN ports of your WiFi router and the Netgear extender respectively.
Restart the Extender
The most overlooked entities in the networking world are technical glitches even though they are very much capable of inviting bigger issues to your table. Therefore, it is advised that you try to get rid of them. It is very easy. You just have to restart your range extender. The only effort required from your side is that you need to detach all the cables connected to the extender. One done, unplug the extender after pressing the Power button. Wait for 30 minutes at least. Lastly, power on the Netgear WiFi extender after connecting it to its corresponding wall socket.
Use the Correct WiFi Password
After completing the Netgear extender login process, the user gets redirected to the Genie wizard that detects the presence of the available networks in the range of the extender. There, you will have to select the network belonging to your host router and input its respective WiFi password. There is a high chance that you entered the incorrect password due to which the pairing process between the range extender and the router is not getting completed. Thus, you have to ensure that you input the correct WiFi password of the host router on the Netgear Genie dashboard.
Verdict
We are now about to wrap up the post that can help you fix the pairing problem between your Netgear extender and the main router. It is expected that the problem is no more troubling you and you have connected your devices easily. However, 1% of failure is there if the extender is not working on the default settings. So, you should perform a factory default reset and repeat the pairing process once again.
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