RE305 Firmware Upgrade = New Unknown Password
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RE305 Firmware Upgrade = New Unknown Password
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Basic Question: After the RE305 has been firmware upgraded to 171115, what is the new password?
Full Story:
After getting a new RE305 Extender, I tried it out in "extender" mode and then successfully converted it to my original intention: as an access point. The ISP router comes into my house at the front basement, so the use case for this RE305 is to sit at the center of the middle level with a wire to the router so that wifi works reliably at the back top-level bedroom (and elsewhere). I left the 2.4GHz router wifi "on" so there are 2 duplicate 2.4GHz APs and 1 new 5GHz AP.
Along the way, I changed the admin/admin UID & password to a pair of my own making, which has worked fine ... until ...
I noticed today that wifi devices (tablets & laptops) were sometimes showing up as "connected" but with "no internet", and one tablet suddenly started receiving updates by walking downstairs. The view from the RE305's web management showed "Internet Status: unknown" with a warning triangle on the "internet" icon. So the working theory is that connections through the RE305 were resulting in "no internet" and when a device hooked up to the original router, things worked again.
Attempting to fix this without opening a post (such as this), after rebooting the device several times, I figured I should probably upgrade the firmware. However, after upgrading to the latest "RE305(US)_V1_171115", I am presented with a different TP-Link web management login screen than the original.
The original login screen asked for both user ID and password on the same screen; admin/admin worked initially, then my changes worked thereafter. But now I get: "Welcome to use TP-LINK's Range Extender" containing only one unlabeled field, which was populated with dots, and a Login button. I naturally entered my new UID first, but that failed. I noticed when the field is blank it reads "password" inside. So I entered both my new password (failed) and "admin" also failed.
Now I'm receiving warnings that I've used 5 of my 10 login attempts. So, hopefully without having to factory reset this thing, see original question at the top ... what's the new password?
Thanks!
WG
Hardware Version :
Firmware Version :
ISP :
Basic Question: After the RE305 has been firmware upgraded to 171115, what is the new password?
Full Story:
After getting a new RE305 Extender, I tried it out in "extender" mode and then successfully converted it to my original intention: as an access point. The ISP router comes into my house at the front basement, so the use case for this RE305 is to sit at the center of the middle level with a wire to the router so that wifi works reliably at the back top-level bedroom (and elsewhere). I left the 2.4GHz router wifi "on" so there are 2 duplicate 2.4GHz APs and 1 new 5GHz AP.
Along the way, I changed the admin/admin UID & password to a pair of my own making, which has worked fine ... until ...
I noticed today that wifi devices (tablets & laptops) were sometimes showing up as "connected" but with "no internet", and one tablet suddenly started receiving updates by walking downstairs. The view from the RE305's web management showed "Internet Status: unknown" with a warning triangle on the "internet" icon. So the working theory is that connections through the RE305 were resulting in "no internet" and when a device hooked up to the original router, things worked again.
Attempting to fix this without opening a post (such as this), after rebooting the device several times, I figured I should probably upgrade the firmware. However, after upgrading to the latest "RE305(US)_V1_171115", I am presented with a different TP-Link web management login screen than the original.
The original login screen asked for both user ID and password on the same screen; admin/admin worked initially, then my changes worked thereafter. But now I get: "Welcome to use TP-LINK's Range Extender" containing only one unlabeled field, which was populated with dots, and a Login button. I naturally entered my new UID first, but that failed. I noticed when the field is blank it reads "password" inside. So I entered both my new password (failed) and "admin" also failed.
Now I'm receiving warnings that I've used 5 of my 10 login attempts. So, hopefully without having to factory reset this thing, see original question at the top ... what's the new password?
Thanks!
WG
