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multi device displayed but only one router and two satellites are connected.
hi everyone, recently on the orbi admin page, I started seeing lots of devices that are offline (like 98 devices ) but on the HOME page, it still shows correctly - Attached Devices (RBS760) R...
CrimpOn wrote:
KingsClass wrote:
hi everyone,
recently on the orbi admin page, I started seeing lots of devices that are offline (like 98 devices ) but on the HOME page, it still shows correctly -
Thanks for attaching the picture. What happens when you click the "Remove" button by each of the Disconnected satellites?
Do they disappear, only to return?
p.s. I'm assuming that the column with MAC addresses was blocked out. Is there a pattern in those MAC addresses?
Good call. Are you thinking that all those entries might be the same things in different guises?
Phones that use a random Mac address – think iPhones and Samsungs – might create that behaviour. Each visit of the same phone could add yet another entry.
If that is the case,then we have yet another manifestation of this "security" feature.
michaelkenward wrote:
Good call. Are you thinking that all those entries might be the same things in different guises?
If the devices showed up on the Access Control page list of devices that are no longer connected, that would suggest some version of MAC manipulation over time. The regular Attached Devices page displays only devices that are currently connected. For satellites, however, it seems to remember satellites that were part of the network at some time and have become disconnected. I struggle to come up with a scenario that would have 98 devices recognized as satellites but not having a recognizable Netgear MAC address.
CrimpOn wrote:
michaelkenward wrote:
Good call. Are you thinking that all those entries might be the same things in different guises?
If the devices showed up on the Access Control page list of devices that are no longer connected, that would suggest some version of MAC manipulation over time.
That's my thinking following your comment.
If KingsClass can tell us what those wifi client are that might help.
It is easy to see how something with an ever changing mac address can rack up a huge number of entries.
Maybe those 98 devices are not satellites but the same phone that signed in 98 times.
Never seen reports of that here before. But maybe no one has been looking .