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WAX206
I am using WAX206 as an WAP but noticed two things: - My partners iPhone cannot connect to it at all while my Android phone connected when I disabled randomised MAC address option. - After s...
decky999 wrote:
- At this stage I turned the router MAC filtering OFF and continue running it only on WAX. This fixed the iPhone which connected for the first time but I did notice a different MAC number in the list. Again, this was never an issue on TPLink. IPad still worked fine,
- This worked for a while but then my Android phone lost internet as well as iPad. For Android I realised that it switched random MAC again which I now switched off. Private address option on iPhone is off , I cannot find any similar option on iPad and I am monitoring wired devices. That is my current situation - with WAX MAC filtering being back on.
Is this a problem of Netgear hardware ? I do not know but I see differences in behaviour between my router and WAX AP.
There is no one tap solution (this is perfectly fine from the privacy view) to turn off MAC address randomization on Android or devices with iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 or higher.
Users will have to turn off randomization for each network (by name/SSID) separately.
To do this, go to Settings > WiFi and tap on the network you want to connect to, and turn the Private Address option off. The similar setting is available on the watchOS btw. I'm struggling to understand why this should be any different on your iPad.
decky999 wrote:
Is this a problem of Netgear hardware ? I do not know but I see differences in behavior between my router and WAX AP.
Therefore my answer is again: No!
iPad is quite ancient - how old exactly I don't know. My partner uses Apple devices. Maybe from the era when Apple was reasonable about MAC randomisation. Still confuses me why it lost the connection. MAC filtering is on now and I will keep monitoring it.
IPad runs iOS 12.57
decky999 wrote:
IPad runs iOS 12.57
At the risk or repeating my earlier question: This device does not have option to turn the Private Address off?
To do this, go to Settings > WiFi and tap on the network you want to connect to, and turn the Private Address option off.
The similar setting is available on the watchOS btw. I'm struggling to understand why this should be any different on your iPad.
I will check again but I could not see private address option last time I checked. It could be me and my aversion towards Apple devices.
On the other topic - my Android phone lost connection yesterday evening - after I switched the MAC randomisation back ON it connected fine and it is still connected.
Figure that one out!?
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