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router ac3000 is no longer allowing more than 50 connected devices
Hi All, My netgear AC3000 router is not not allowing more than 50 connected devices, this used to work above that, and now it has suddenly got a limit and devices just time out if they are the un...
Hi there!!
Thanks for your quick response.
I have 3 routers, below are the firmware versions, they are all up to date:
| Model Name | Device Name | Current Version | Status | |
| Router | RBR50 | RBR50 | V2.5.1.16 | No new firmware version available. |
| Satellite | RBS20 | Orbi Satellite-2 | V2.5.1.16 | No new firmware version available. |
| Satellite | RBS50 | Orbi Satellite-1 | V2.5.1.16 | No new firmware version available. |
The connection limit of 50 seems to be the total of both wired and wireless.
The DHCP pool still has a lot left as I am using 10.0.0.x and at the moment the highest is 10.0.0.77 - still have all the way up to 255 to go!
The logs don't show anything unusual, just DHCP refreshes and connections:
[DHCP IP: 10.0.0.x] to MAC address x:x:x:x:x:x, Sunday, September 27, 2020 14:56:48
[Access Control] Device xxx with MAC address x:x:x:x:x:x is allowed to access the n, Sunday, September 27, 2020 14:56:48
[WLAN access allowed] from MAC : x:x:x:x:x:x, Sunday, September 27, 2020 14:56:47
Nothing else apart from that.
What happens if you disable Access Control? (Just temporarily. I know there are lots of people who can guess your WiFi password and connect random devices. But, what the heck, just let them have it for a short time as an experiment.)