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NETGEAR EX6200 Product Manual

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  • Page 1 Do More Learn more about your EX6200...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Contents Experience Next-Generation WiFi ........3 Optimize Your WiFi ..........4 Share Files Across Your Network .

  • Page 3: Experience Next-Generation Wifi

    WiFi networking standards. Your extender is backward compatible with prior WiFi standards. However, to get the benefits of 802.11ac, your router must support the 802.11ac WiFi networking standard. To learn more about the 802.11ac WiFi networking standard, visit http://www.netgear.com/landing/80211ac/...

  • Page 4: Optimize Your Wifi

    Optimize Your WiFi The NETGEAR WiFi Analytics app provides detailed information to help you optimize your WiFi home network. To install the app, visit the Google Play store or scan the QR code. The WiFi Analytics app provides the following: Network status.

  • Page 5: Share Files Across Your Network

    Share Files Across Your Network You can share data that is stored on most common USB storage devices across your network with ReadySHARE® USB Storage Access. USB 3.0 port  To access a USB device from a Windows computer: 1. Insert your USB storage device into the USB 3.0 port on the extender.
  • Page 6 4. Click the Connect button.  To change the ReadySHARE folder name on the extender: If you have a NETGEAR router that supports ReadySHARE, the router’s default ReadySHARE folder name is \\readyshare. The extender’s default ReadySHARE folder name is also \\readyshare.

  • Page 7: Boost Your Video Streaming

    4. In the Network/Device Name field, type a new name. Note: After you change the network/device name, the folder name also changes. 5. Click on the Apply button. Your changes are saved. Boost Your Video Streaming Get the most out of your HD entertainment with FastLane™ Technology.
  • Page 8 4. Select Advanced > Operating Mode. The Operating Mode screen displays. 5. Select the FastLane Technology radio button. 6. Review the two FastLane Technology options and choose the band–either 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz–that is compatible with most of your devices. If you are not sure which band your devices use, check your user manuals or search the Internet.

  • Page 9: Connect Ethernet-Enabled Devices

    Connect Ethernet-Enabled Devices You can use your extender to wirelessly connect as many as five Ethernet-enabled devices, such as smart TVs, game consoles, and Blu-ray players, to your WiFi router or access point at gigabit speeds. After your set up your extender, plug the Ethernet cable from a device directly into the extender’s gigabit Ethernet port.

  • Page 10: Connect A Printer

    Connect a Printer To connect a printer to your extender and enjoy wireless printing from your laptop and other devices, use your extender’s ReadySHARE Printer feature.  To set up your printer: 1. See if your computer already has the printer driver software installed.
  • Page 11 Printer utility for Windows or Mac. 4. Install the ReadySHARE Printer utility. After you install it, the utility displays as NETGEAR USB Control Center on your computer. 5. Launch the NETGEAR USB Control Center. A list of available printers displays. If this is the first time you are running the utility, you are asked to select a default printer.
  • Page 12 NETGEAR USB Control Center utility, disable the firewall temporarily to allow the utility to work. • The NETGEAR USB Control Center utility must be running in the background for printer sharing to work. If you exit the utility, you cannot access the printer on your WiFi network.

  • Page 13: Change Your Settings

    Change Your Settings  To change your password or other settings: 1. Connect to the extender’s WiFi network. 2. Open a browser on your laptop, tablet, or smartphone and visit www.mywifiext.net. 3. Log in using the following credentials: • User name. admin •...

  • Page 14: Faq

    Here is where you can find answers for difficulties you might experience. NETGEAR genie keeps asking me for my WiFi password and I am sure I entered the correct password. What can I do? It is likely that your extender is placed at the borderline of the signal range covered by your main WiFi router.
  • Page 15 IP address from the extender. You must reset the extender to the factory defaults to get the IP address back. I am connected to NETGEAR_EXT and launched a browser. Why am I unable to see NETGEAR genie? Try these troubleshooting steps: •...
  • Page 16 User name. admin • Password. password • I completed the NETGEAR genie smart setup, but my wireless devices cannot get the IP address from the extender. What should I do? Make sure that the passphrase you entered on your wireless device is correct, and power cycle the extender and your router.
  • Page 17 I enabled a wireless MAC filter, wireless access control, or access control list (ACL) on my router. What should I do when installing the extender? When the WiFi device connects through the extender to your router, the MAC address of the WiFi device shown on the router is translated to another MAC address.
  • Page 18 4. Log in to your extender. a. Launch a web browser and in the address field, enter www.mywifiext.net or www.mywifiext.com. A login screen displays. b. Enter admin for the user name and password for the password. 5. Select Maintenance > Attached Devices. The Attached Devices screen displays the MAC addresses and virtual MAC addresses for computers and WiFi devices that are connected to the extender network.
  • Page 19 10. Convert the extender’s MAC 1 address and add the new MAC 1 address to your router’s MAC filter table. For more information, see the user manual. a. Convert the first two hexadecimal values in the extender’s MAC 1 address to binary. See the user manual for the conversion table.

  • Page 20: Technical Support

    NETGEAR, the NETGEAR logo, and Connect with Innovation are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of NETGEAR, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries in the United States and/ or other countries. Information is subject to change without notice. © NETGEAR, Inc. All rights reserved.

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