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Netgear Genie Questions
Ok guys, I have the desktop version of genie, using the R6300 router. Seems to work kinda ok, but the option on the network map for "Turn on access control" does nothing, just spins then dies. So w...
katie23 wrote: Mike great question. I just purchased this router and was wondering the same thing. I was tinkering around everything as I thought that the access control might allow me to do mac filtering, but like you said just spins around and does nothing.
Well Katie, it does pop up the logon screen sometimes asking me for user/password for our router, but even after entering the user/password it just closes spins some more then exits....so does nothing at all. Seems nobody on here seems to talk about this feature or even cares if it works or not..... Still don't know what its suppose to do either. Oh well.....Mike.