A Complete Guide to Connect Extender to Virgin Media Router

If you are using a Virgin router, but still you are unable to enjoy WiFi signal in every corner of your home. Then you need to add the Virgin WiFi extender in your network. Virgin extender helps to boost your WiFi signals and provide high speed internet at entire house. In today’s blog, you explore the complete instruction to connect extender to Virgin Media Router. Let’s start without wasting time:

Unboxing

First, open the box. You will find an extender device and user manual inside the box. The extender is look like an adapter; you can simply plug it, but follow the complete process step by step.

Physically Connect Extender to Virgin Media Router

Now it is time to physically connect extender to the Virgin router. Turn off the existing router, and place the extender near to the router and use the Ethernet cable to make a connection between router and extender.

Plugging the Extender

After connect with router, turn on the main router and extender by plug it in to the power outlet. When the orange light flash on the extender that means the physical setup is complete and now you need to configure the extender via computer or via WPS method.

Configure Manual

To manually configure the extender, connect your computer to the network of extender. (There is no need to enter password to connect) Open any web browser on computer and type extender.linksys.com or IP address 192.168.1.1 into the address bar.

Now it asks for a login detail, enter default username and password to login. Here a web interface will open. On this interface, you need manually configure the settings for both 2.4GHz and 5GHz networks. Then select the network which you want to extend and enter their password and click on the SAVE button.

This way you can connect extender to Virgin Media Router via using extender.linksys.com or 192.168.1.1.

Configure via WPS Button

There is another easiest method to connect extender to Virgin Media Router. In this, we use the WPS button to configure the extender. Simply find the WPS button on both the router and the extender.

Firstly press the WPS button of the router and within few seconds press the WPS button of the extender. After that extender inherit all the settings of the router. You can use the same password of the router to connect devices to the extender’s network.

Note: If your router has not WPS button, then you can use the WPS method by access the web interface of the router, there is option of WPS connection in the web interface.

Conclusion

In the above post, we provide user friendly instruction to connect the extender to virgin media router. By following these you can easily setup new extender at your home.