hi all
I am trying to use a wi-fi extender as an access point (extending my wifi network) for a ring doorbell at the bottom of my garden. The access point has a ethernet cable running directly from the back of the router to it. I have tried to configure two separate extenders (brostrend AC1200) and a wireless-n repeater. In both cases with the extenders sitting a metre away from the router, powered and connected with a working ethernet cable, neither will allow me to configure successfully. I can access the local network they both provide in order to try and gain access to their admin page. I can't open the admin page of the wireless-n once I enter the 192. xxx address. it just times out. I can access the admin page of the AC1200 but it comes up as an error saying it's unable to access the router. I am thinking there is possibly a firewall issue stopping me successfully connecting here. I am a MacBook user who has tried to connect using three different browsers, safari, chrome and Firefox without success. any help would be appreciated.
There is no firewall issue, everything is within your LAN. Are you sure the Ethernet cable is good, have you tried a different LAN port on the hub?
tried two cables but not a different port. will try that next thx