How to Setup a Netgear Nighthawk X6 WiFi Router?

Nighthawk X6 is a tri-band WiFi Router with a multi-use facility, which emphasizes that it is more ideal or compatible for continuous streaming for more than one Wi-Fi device at your home.

Let us understand the step-by-step procedure to Setup a Netgear nighthawk X6 Wifi router at your home.

Step to Netgear Nighthawk X6 Setup

Firstly You Need to Make Sure to Check Your Internet Connectivity

• First, you need to extend all your antennas vertically to get better wireless  connectivity
• Plug out from your modem and remove the battery and disconnect with other routers, if it is connected with other router and make sure only internet cable should be connected with your modem, and rest of should be disconnected from your modem devices

Establish a Connection with your Modem

• Firstly Supply power to your modem
• Put in batteries in your modem backside
• There is yellow color Ethernet cable comes with your router, connect your modem with this yellow cable to the internet port of your router
• Now you need to supply power to the router by using an adapter
• Now you need to wait for the power LED light, which is located at the front of your router, the light will lit with white color

If the light does not come on, you need to press the Power button again to get the LED white light

Connect Your Router to Your Computer

• Either you can use an Ethernet cable or use a wireless connection to connect your computer with the router
• To connect with wireless network, you need to use some wireless settings to connect your computer with the router

Start your Browser to do Some Settings

Open the browser, If you are doing this first time, then you will get a genie screen and you need to follow genie steps to connect your computer with the internet If the genie screen does not appear,

Try to do something else by following the below steps

• First, close your internet browser and open it again
• You need to make sure that your computer  should be connected with one of the black Ethernet ports of your router, and that you are connected to your wireless network
• You need to make sure that full power supply is supplied to your router and LED should be lit
• If your computer is set with fixed IP, change it with dynamic by selecting the option‘ obtain an IP address automatically

If you are unable to look genie screen, then you need to login into the router

• Firstly you need to start the web browser
• Need to enter URL which is ‘www.routerlogin.net’ in the URL address bar
• You will get a login screen, where you need to enter admin as username and password as password

Now genie will get internet connection automatically

The Setting of Your Wireless Network Name and Password

• You have a unique network name and password also.
• Therefore you can change the network name and password as per your desire
• we strongly recommend you to use your default network name and password.
• Note: Either you can keep on writing these credentials on paper and store it somewhere.

Now you need to Join Your Wi-Fi Network 

• You need to press Wi-Fi Protected setup for three to five seconds to get power led white
• During two minutes on your computer, you need to press the WPS button, now the WPS led turn white and repeat this process to connect another computer

Now You Need to Select Your Computer Network and Insert a Password

• Software utility-> This will scan your available network, find your network and select your network, now you need to enter the password and press the connect button

Repeat this procedure to connect other devices

Change and View of the Router Settings

• To log in to your router
• Firstly, you need to connect the computer to the router with an Ethernet cable or with a wireless network, Open your browser So then open the link ‘www.routerlogin.net
• Therefore You will get a login screen, where you need to enter admin as username and password for a password
• Afterward login to the router with your username and password, you can change the admin password,
• you can share USB over the network, you can retrieve your forgotten password,
• you can get the back of your window computer, you can share your USB printer, etc.

These are the step to Setup a Netgear nighthawk X6 Wifi router