Go Back to ONLY ONE ACL for 2 Nighthawk Routers

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Jacob_of-Aus wrote:

We have a WiFi system in a large house, on the ground floor Netgear AX4200 (RAX43), and on the  3rd floor (until recently)  Netgear AC3200 (R8000) which are connected by cable that carries the Internet signal from the ground floor to the 3rd floor (from one of the ethernet ports to the Internet port respectively).

 

With that configurations, we used ONLY ONE Access list which resided on the ground floor router and the ACL disabled on the 3rd floor router

 

Using web browse, when I logged in as admin to Control Panel on the ground floor and looked at Access List I could see all devices that are connected to both routers, the one connect to the downstairs router showed the wifi channel of the connection (e.g "Wireless [SSID here} 2.4G" , those devices that were connected upstairs show the connection  as "Wired" which was good enough for me.

 

All was good until now.

 

That is until we replaced the router upstairs with a Netgear AX5400 (RAX50) with identical configuration and Internet connection as described above. However, now the Access list display ONLY the devices that are connected to downstairs router and nothing from upstairs.

 

To get the list of the devices that connected upstairs, I had to create a second Access list which totally unacceptable.

 

Can someone here enlighten me as to how to revert to one, and one only access list, assuming it is possible.

 

Thank you

 

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From your description, it appears your original 3rd floor device, the R8000, was configured as a wired access point.  That had to be done on purpose.  It did not come out of the box that way.  Have your configured your new 3rd floor router, the RAX50, as a wired access point?