A TP-LINK router or extender should intercept requests to tplinklogin.net and tplinkextender.net and direct them to the router/extender rather than the Internet.

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Either way, it has been discovered that two domain's formerly used by TP-LINK to configure its routers and Wi-Fi Extenders are, in fact, no longer owned by TP-LINK at all.