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Large # of devices blocked
Extremely frustrating problem: some devices stopped connecting to the internet.
I logged on to the router "Access Control" page and a bunch of devices (at least 15-20 at one point) said "Blockeed" in red. Checking the boxes next to the devices and clicking "Allow" then "Apply" did nothing. These include phones, TVs, random smart devices, nothing that I have purposely blocked by name, MAC address or IP address.
I have Netgear Armor as well as the built in Circle but I did not see any problems.
I was concerned that perhaps the Armor was detecting a security threat and blocking devices on its own? Very troubling. I disabled Armor but it did not seem to make a difference.
I have RBR50, RBS50 and RBS40. Firmware 2.7.4.24.
Any thoughts?
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This is just me, but I have never enabled Access Control. See far too many posts on the forum complaining about this sort of issue. In over six years, no neighbor has ever guessed my 20 character WiFi password. They connect to their own WiFi systems. (p.s. I never even attempt to connect to their WiFi systems, either.)
The few times I have monkeyed around with Access Control, it has seemed really touchy. For example, I would find a device suddenly not having internet and discover that somehow Access Control had become enabled and this device Blocked. The best I could guess was that I was fooling around with the Orbi 'app' and somehow touched that goofy "Pause" slider by mistake and never realized I did it.
This is my problem - I don't remember having Access Control enabled. I have used the Orbi app to pause devices occasionally but this was out of control! I disabled access control last night and this morning it was enabled again...thankfully there were no devices blocked this time.
If you have Circle, this plays a part in Access Controls. So possible thought Access Controls was disabled in the WEB UI, Circle being active, could have re-enabled it.
