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mc64
Tutor
Oct 22, 2018

Access Control Bug in Orbi V2.2.1.210

Until the last firmware upgrade, access control worked fine. I had "prevent new devices from connecting" enabled as well. When I recently installed a new device and went to allow it to connect as I'v...
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marquisT
Aspirant
Jan 30, 2019

I am having the same issue... just started a few days ago.

Orbi RBK50, V2.2.1.210
 
Have been using Security|Access Control for a while now, no problems.

Now the router randomly sets two of my recent devices to Blocked for no reason.

It lets me set them to "Allow", but then reverts back to "Blocked". 

How do I correct without doing a full reset and reconfiguring, which sounds painful!

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FURRYe38
Guru - Experienced User
Jan 30, 2019

I would suggest asking ChristineT  for a beta version of FW to see if this is corrected. Others have reported control problems in v210 FW.

https://community.netgear.com/t5/Orbi/Looking-for-a-select-group-of-Orbi-Community-members-that-are/td-p/1624103/jump-to/first-unread-message

marquisT wrote:

I am having the same issue... just started a few days ago.

Orbi RBK50, V2.2.1.210
 
Have been using Security|Access Control for a while now, no problems.

Now the router randomly sets two of my recent devices to Blocked for no reason.

It lets me set them to "Allow", but then reverts back to "Blocked". 

How do I correct without doing a full reset and reconfiguring, which sounds painful!