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Re: Unable to connect Chamberlain garage door opener via 5g internet
Mine is old NetGear N300 Model EX2700. I got it at least 5 year ago. I do not think you need to buy a new extender. Your nighthawk extender should work. Your extender always tries to connect to the "Known" network it has connected to. You need to reset it to factory default setting. At that time, you will be able to pick Gateway network. You need to download a manual to follow the initial setup procedure after resetting to factory default. Trust me, t-mobile support would not know your extender betterthan you do. Incompatibility is an easy excuse to get you off the phone. Your netgear should work also. But your extender might only work for 2.4 GHZ network as mine does. So you will need to separate 2.4 GHZ network out from default t-mobile gateway's hybrated network to create two networks for your t-mobile gateway. One for 2.4 GHZ, one for 5GHZ. At my home, 5GHZ is always much faster than 2.4 GHZ network. I have speed around 300 MBPS. So all my laptop/phone use 5GHZ network. But I leave this 2.4 GHZ for all the devices such as thermostat, smart devices. So far all works fine now.9Visto0likes0ComentariosRe: Unable to connect Chamberlain garage door opener via 5g internet
First of all, I separated the 2.4 GHZ network from 5 GHZ network from t-mobile internet app (choose network you will see the option). All I did was to reset extender to factory default setting then I can use my laptop to connect to the extender network, and asimple configuration screen shown up. The very first step was to let me pick which WIFI network extender should connect to. I picked the 2.4 GHZ one from T-mobile home internet router. Then provided password for extender to connect. Now I have chance to pick a name for extendedWIFI network. Now I have extender WIFI network created and be able to connect to through phone or laptop. I went to garage, reprogram the WIFI to connect to this extended network. Garage has no problem to connect to this network. Everything comes back green. You might need to download a manual of your extender to find out how to reset to factory defaultsettings and configure an extended network for use. All MyQ needs is at configuration time to use port 8883 to connect to your router or extender to register. Arouter or extender works well for this purpose. But extender is cheaper and easier to place closer to garage. Mine just needs a power plug.15Visto3likes0ComentariosRe: Unable to connect Chamberlain garage door opener via 5g internet
I found a quick easy solution for this. I have an old netgear N300 extender when I used with Comcast router to provide full house coverage. Now with t-mobile home internet routerI do not need that extender anymore for coverage. I setup thisextender again to create a 2.4 GHZnetwork for my MyQ to connect to. It worked like a charm.This 30 dollars extender will do the trick.45Visto4likes0Comentarios