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Dual band Wifi Extender 600 change SSID???

joeh201 — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 21:50:57 GMT

Hi there,

I currently have a BT Home hub 5 with a dual band wifi extender 600. I would like to have a separate SSID for the wifi extender so that I can choose which devices connect to it. Any ideas on how I can do this?

Many thanks in advance

Re: Dual band Wifi Extender 600 change SSID???

Darren_B — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 12:12:16 GMT

Hi joeh201,

You should be able to access the Extenders settings by navigating to http://mybtdevices.home - you will need the Admin password which can be found on the label of the device.

The settings should allow you to assign a separate SSID for the extended network.

Many Thanks

Darren_B

Re: Dual band Wifi Extender 600 change SSID???

joeh201 — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 12:29:33 GMT

Hi Darren,
Unfortunately the link you sent me doesn't work. It says 'This site can't be reached'.
Any ideas why this might be?

Cheers,

Joe

Re: Dual band Wifi Extender 600 change SSID???

licquorice — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 12:44:17 GMT

I suspect you need to be actually connected to the device for the link to work. Therein lies the catch 22 as until you change the SSID you can't be sure you are connected to it.

Re: Dual band Wifi Extender 600 change SSID???

licquorice — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 12:48:19 GMT

If the extender appears in the network list of your hub 5, you can access the extender by entering its IP address in your browser.

Re: Dual band Wifi Extender 600 change SSID???

Darren_B — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 13:28:10 GMT

Hi,

As liquorice has just mentioned, for that URL* to work you will need to be connected to the Extender. If you have access to the BT Home hub settings (http://192.168.1.254 or http://bthomehub.home) you can find out the IP address of the Extender and connect to that directly e.g. http://192.168.1.123)

* please note I made a typo in the original URL - it should be http://mybtdevice.home (no 's')

Re: Dual band Wifi Extender 600 change SSID???

joeh201 — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 13:40:47 GMT

Hi,

Thanks for the suggestion but when I go onto the hub 5 router settings, the extender does not show up as when it pairs with the router, it copies it's SSID

Re: Dual band Wifi Extender 600 change SSID???

joeh201 — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 13:41:23 GMT

Unfortunately it doesn't, as I think the extender copies the SSID of the hub 5

Re: Dual band Wifi Extender 600 change SSID???

licquorice — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 13:57:28 GMT

Its nothing to do with SSIDs why it doesn't show up in the hub manager, but I'm not surprised, my Hotspot 500s don't either.

If you launch a command prompt and type ping 192.168.1.255 and then type arp -a you will see a list of IP addresses. You might be able to identify which is the extender from that.

Re: Dual band Wifi Extender 600 change SSID???

joeh201 — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 14:01:24 GMT

Yeah I've done that but I get about 15 IPs so would be quite difficult to identify it, even if I could what use would that be?

Re: Dual band Wifi Extender 600 change SSID???

licquorice — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 14:11:25 GMT

Because once you know its IP address you can log in to it directly by entering the address in your browser address bar.

It will be a 192.168.1.XXX address, you can discount most of the addresses by ones that show up in the hub manager network list that are other devices.

Re: Dual band Wifi Extender 600 change SSID???

joeh201 — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 14:51:16 GMT

Ah ok I've figured out which one it is and I've logged into the extender settings

Re: Dual band Wifi Extender 600 change SSID???

joeh201 — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 17:20:08 GMT

I've now sorted it out. Thank you all for your help 🙂