I have a Netgear EX7300 wireless Extender and I am having trouble getting to its initial configuration page.

The instructions to configure the device are:

Power on the device. Connect a computer to the device with cat5 cable. In a browser go to and follow the onscreen directions. The problem is, Visiting in any browser results in a page not found and or page timeout.

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It's likely because your extender got a different IP than 192.168.1.250 to which that domain resolves. You can access your extender directly by its assigned IP, but first you need to find it. You can do it using nmap:

nmap 192.168.1.*

This will scan all the IPs in the 192.168.1 subnet.

In the results look for the following fingerprint:

PORT STATE SERVICE
53/tcp open domain
80/tcp open http
5000/tcp open upnp
7777/tcp open cbt
8888/tcp open sun-answerbook

Then just paste the IP in your browser's address bar.