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RBRE960 - Armor blocks access to Walmart and Discord app (July 2024)
Recently, after I noticed the Armor app went from being branded as Bitdefender to Netgear Armor, access to the Walmart app and Discord app is blocked when using the Orbi Wifi. If I turn Armor off or ...
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Recently any phone that uses the Orbi Wifi cannot connect to the Walmart app. Walmart.com is fine, but the app will not connect. If we go off the Wifi and to mobile data, works again.
Tried to reboot, power cycle but no luck.
How do I clear out whatever the issue is so we can use the Walmart app on the wifi again?
thanks
Something to ask Walmart about there app.
Like I said, the app works fine on mobile data or other Wifi connections.
It's clearly an issue with my Orbi.
CMoneyTrading wrote:
Recently any phone that uses the Orbi Wifi cannot connect to the Walmart app. Walmart.com is fine, but the app will not connect. If we go off the Wifi and to mobile data, works again.
(once I saw "Free Trial" I lost interest in Armor and have never enabled it.......)
Could you please provide more specifics about how the Walmart App fails to connect? Such as
- Is an error message displayed?
- Is there some indication in Armor (on the Orbi 'app') about this?
- Is it possible on the Orbi app to temporarily disable Armor to see if that changes the situation?
My understanding is that Apple, Android, and Windows implementations of MAC address randomizing are able to distinguish between "home" and "not home". The intention of this feature is to prevent unwanted tracking of where a mobile device has connected to WiFi. (aha. This phone was at Starbucks at 8am, then at the airport at 10am, then in Chicago at .....) Disabling this feature when the mobile device is at home results in the device getting the same LAN IP address every time (because the WiFi MAC address remains the hardware MAC address.)
(displaying even more ignorance.......)
Exactly which Walmart app is this? Walmart Money Card? or...............
