Netgear EAX20 – AX1800 Mesh Extender All LED White

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Netgera mesh extender like EAX20, which provides AX1800 WiFi speed, have so many features including the LED status lights. In this blog post, we will explain why you are seeing white color on every LED on mesh extender, (except Ethernet LED) and also can’t connect to the Netgear_ext network after setting it up.

We will provide reasons and solutions to know why you are getting this trouble and then by applying some fixes to dispel it.

Reasons

1. Your extenders settings are normal as the setup of mesh extender, in which you will not found Netgear_ext SSID, it will be the router SSID name.
2. The extender is ready to setup and you haven’t configure it yet from the Mywifiext interface.
3. If the white light is blinking then, then your extender has a corrupted firmware version.
4. Other reason for this mentioned trouble is mesh extender is facing signal interruption on it plugged location.

Now, have a look how to solve this issues and get fix the Netgear EAX20 – AX1800 WiFi Mesh Extender device.

Solutions

There are simple to apply solutions, which can help you to solve Netgear EAX20 – AX1800 WiFi Mesh Extender all white lights are showing. Have a look;

Setup as Netgear Extender

The simple mesh extender setup is done from the Nighthawk login (mywifiext.net or mywifiext.local) from your computer. But you will not see the extender network name (Netgear_ext) in your WiFi settings. You will connect to the router SSID name. To connect to the Netgear extender network, you have to turn off the mesh settings and set it up as an extender only.

Manage Settings Through App

You can find out what is happing to your device from the Nighthawk app. Just access the Nighthawk app through the admin username and password. After that, select the extender model and check that everything is fine or not.

Update Firmware Manually

Corrupted firmware version can also trouble you with the same mentioned problem. So in this situation, you must update the device. To update mesh extender manually, you have to access the interface through the mywifiext.net. Go into the interface Settings> Administration> firmware> install new one.

Restart Extender Device

Restarting the extender device will refresh the settings as well as hardware. To restart, you have to just turn off and on the mesh extender.

At last, resetting is the end option, just press the RESET button and do Netgear extender setup wizard again.

End Conclusion

Here, you have read reasons why your Netgear EAX20 – AX1800 WiFi Mesh Extender showing white light, and how to solve it easily using some of the above given fixes.