moderated Re: An accessible router
Marty Hutchings
Hi, this is Marty, the originator of this thread. I purchased a Netgear Nighthawk router, Model R6400, not the newest, from Amazon. It did not come with the set up CD, nor did it come with a owners manual, but I was able to find it on line and downloaded it. After plugging it in, now I can't seem to log in to it using the log in address on the sticker on the bottom of the router. I saw something somewhere that said to make sure that something was set to connect to IP and DNS. Where would I go to check this setting. I am using Windows 7 and JAWS 2020. I have tried logging on with IE, Firefox and Chrome, but each time, I get the Page Cannot be found screen. Any suggestions?
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Love in Christ Marty For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore, take up the full armor of God, so that you will be able to resist in the evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm. Ephesians 6:12, 13
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From: Audiobookfan Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2020 12:46 AM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: An accessible router I thought I'd let y'all know how I resolved my router issues. I continued to experience the problem with my 5GHz band crashing, so I decided to try a wifi 6 router. I purchased a Netgear Nighthawk. (I don't recall the model number.) And set it up with my wife's sighted assistance. All went well except my Lenovo Flex laptop simply didn't see either the 2.4 or 5 GHz bands. I called Netgear support and waited for literally hours to talk to customer (dis)service only to get disconnected without a solution. I wasn't going to wait around for several more hours, so I returned the Netgear router and purchased a TP-Link Archer AX50. I encountered a few glitches with its setup as well, but I got them all resolved. First, I had the same problem with the AX50 not being seen by my Lenovo laptop, so I had my wife help me set it up using her iPad. We had some trouble getting our preferred password to work. I think the iPad was substituting some special characters which the router didn't like. Since my laptop was the only device that didn't want to connect to the network, I figured it was probably a driver issue, so I went looking for a driver update. I first checked Windows update, but it said my driver was up to date. I then went to the Lenovo website, but couldn't find anything that looked like a driver update for the wireless adaptor in my Flex laptop. Finally, I scoured the Intel website and after much hunting around, I found a driver update for my wireless network adapter. I installed it and restarted my computer. At last, all my devices connected to my new wifi 6 router, including my Lenovo laptop. And so far, (crossing fingers) no crashes! And I was able to enter my preferred password from my laptop. To summarize, my Lenovo laptop needed a driver update in order to work with a wifi 6 router. The Netgear probably would have worked with the driver update, but I'm happy with the TP-Link and it was actually a bit less expensive. I have noticed that I don't get quite as fast download speeds, but that could be due to any number of reasons, such as a busier Internet or even the driver update. Getting a slightly diminished download speed is way better than having to reboot my router several times a day. I guess time will tell whether I made a good decision in choosing this router. Jeff On 4/15/2020 7:37 PM, Audiobookfan via groups.io wrote: I think I might be in the market for a new router myself. I got my stimulus payment and figure it's a good way to use some of it.
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