Upgrade to the Latest Netgear Range Extender Firmware
What Is a Firmware?
A Firmware is a Software of the Router or Extender. It is certainly an Operating System of your Range Extender. It also is packed with latest features and give User Interface to to use features easily. A good firmware is user friendly and open to users to manage the device itself. Almost all firmware can be locked according to the username and password.
Why should i Update Netgear Range Extender Firmware?
Company always tries to push new updated to its devices.
- New firmware upgrade improves security.
- Updating provides more user friendly interface.
- Updating to net Netgear Extender Firmware ads new features to the device to manage and setup things.
- It also improves connection speed.
- If there is any bug in device, company fixes it with the new firmware update.
- Multiple devices control improvement is always there in new Netgear Extender Firmware Update.
- Parental controls protection improvement with the new website list update is the key part on Updating Netgear Range Extender Firmware.
- Connectivity with routers is always made easy in new firmware upgrades for wifi range extenders.
How to Update to Latest Netgear Range Extender Firmware:
We have couple of ways to Update Netgear Range Extender Firmware.
Automatic Update Netgear Range Extender Firmware:
- Login to the MyWiFiExt login page by visiting any of your browser. type mywifiext.net in the address bar and hit enter.
- You will now see a Login Page. Enter your Login details. Username and Password. Please enter details you remember.In case you do not remember these details, you may need to follow this article before you move further.How to reset username and password of my Netgear Range Extender
- Once you Login to the interface Page, you will now need to look fro settings or advanced settings, Locate Firmware and firmware upgrade option.
- Click on firmware upgrade.
- If Extender is connected to the internet it will find the new firmware and will begin the process to Update Netgear Range Extender Firmware.
- Make sure you should not turn off or change browser page while the upgrading process going on.
- Follow all instructions.
- After update is done. Extender will restart. May me many times. Wait for at least Two Minutes after complete update to give time to Extender to setup and configure new security and features.
- Your Netgear Range Extender i not updated to the latest security and features.
Manual Update Netgear Range Extender Firmware:
To manual update to the latest Netgear WiFi Range Extender Firmware Upgrade, first three steps (1 to 3) will remain same.
- Login to the MyWiFiExt login page by visiting any of your browser. type mywifiext.net in the address bar and hit enter.
- You will now see a Login Page. Enter your Login details. Username and Password. Please enter details you remember.In case you do not remember these details, you may need to follow this article before you move further.How to reset username and password of my Netgear Range Extender
- Once you Login to the interface Page, you will now need to look fro settings or advanced settings, Locate Firmware and firmware upgrade option
- Visit to this page to download the firmware for your Device.
Download Latest Firmware Manually - Save the firmware to your computer and do now extract files. Also don’t worry about the file type. Just save the file to the known location.
- Make sure you should not turn off or change browser page while the upgrading process going on.
- Now on the step 3 you will see an option to browse the new firmware file. Click here and choose the new file that you have downloaded. You can also check the Quick Access features on windows to locate file at the top of list.Next steps will remain same (7 to 9)
- Follow all instructions.
- After update is done. Extender will restart. May me many times. Wait for at least Two Minutes after complete update to give time to Extender to setup and configure new security and features.
- Your Netgear Range Extender i not updated to the latest security and features.
To check if everything is working fine. you can login to mywifiext.com and scroll for all the functionalities. For any other concerns please feel free to drop comments to the post. We will reply within quickly.
