Region : UnitedKingdom

Model : TL-WA850RE

Hardware Version :

Firmware Version : 1.2

ISP :

Firstly I must say the setup instructions are overly complicated and don't explain things in a fully sequenced foolproof way. I'm an experienced computer and network user and I notice lots of potential for confusion of what essentially is a simple process, but that's not why I'm writing here.

On first setting up the WA850RE, my instinct was to plug this device into my network (a switched hub) and try and find the admin console. I typed in tplinkextender.net into a web browser and immediately I'm given a virus warning by Avira Internet Security, it says the HTML/Framer.DO.229 (discovered on May 6th 2013) is present on the (external) web page I got to. Foolishly trusting TP-Link, I allowed the page but my suspicions are that this is some dodgy advertising page full of links. This page ( http://www.avira.com/en/support-threats-summary/tid/8049/tlang/en) says the virus is a redirect to an infected website, so maybe this is what I'm seeing?

Realising maybe that I shouldn't have plugged the device into my network hub, and not wanting to muck up one of my Windows computer's network settings by plugging the device directly into it instead of my normal network, I plugged it into a Mac laptop which then automatically took me to the admin login of the device. I then hit Next of the quick setup routine, typed in my wifi key and the device set itself up and works just fine in it's new location upstairs.

Wanting to now check the settings the WA850RE has used and other things such as the firmware version, change passwords, etc, I am no longer able to talk to the device through the network! If I type in the tplinkextender.net address I'm just taken to the dodgy looking external website and there seems to be no other way into the device.

Any suggestions as to what's going on? Is the external weblink infected and have I now infected my computers/network? And how can I talk to the device in its new location?