Custom Naming of Devices in the WAX610

ortizalfredt wrote:

Using the WAX610 AP web browser admin, under Management=>Monitoring=>Connected Clients, is there anyway to apply a "vanity" name to each device? 

Nope. This is more a feature your RBR20 has - because it hosts a DHCP server. Whatever you set there, for example if your network DHCP comes from a different device - it's not magically forwarded to the rest of your network infrastructure.

Assuming you are operating a private network: Many DHCP clients allow to provide a name and a client OS optionally.

For example, Android based systems offer a control - by network or likely the wireless connection - to use the effective Device MAC (vs. the randomized MAC address). Additionally, there is a control to provide the configured hostname to the DHCP server (by DHCP Option 12). 

While the default on many clients is to help the privacy minded user, so offering a random MAC address, and have the platform OS suppressed. Unfortunately, there are some closed source devices (typically IOT ....) which don't offer a user control, but these at least are not randomizing MAC addresses.

Technically, each WAX610 does support up to 250 concurrent wireless clients. Depending on the use case, virtually an unlimited number of devices can associate over time. Where would you think an AP should store such an amount of aliases?