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xBigRedDogx's avatar
Oct 23, 2020
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iPhone12 not connecting to Orbi (original)

Hey Everyone,   tl;dr ... in the Orbi-network settings (on iPhone), there is a field to allow "Private Address"... which seems to override the normal iPhone MAC address with a spoofed one.  This i...
  • xBigRedDogx's avatar
    Oct 31, 2020

    Never mind was my mistake. I guess the randomized Mac on all iOS devices was depleting my store of open ip addresses (I reserve them based on Mac). So it was pushing me over the top.

     

    The real problem was I had no more IP addresses available. Was just coincidence iphone12 was first over the top.