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chinyu
Oct 25, 2022Follower
Duplicated Connected Devices
I recently bought the Orbi AX6000 system and trying to setup parental controls but the system keeps seeing my same devices as being different.
Say I connected with my iPhone and I assigned that device to myself and gave it a name. What I am noticing is that from time to time I will get a notification that a new apple device has joined my network (even though that apple device is the same that I previously assigned to myself and gave a name). The app will show the previous device as being offline and this one being added to the "home" section of the device manager.
I suspect that the iPhone is connecting under a pseudo MAC address which is resulting in this, however, this is the first system I have used that has not been able to still identify that the device is the same.
Any ideas on how to address this?
1 Reply
- FURRYe38Guru - Experienced User
Be sure to disable WiFi Protected IP address while at home on all Apple mobile devices: