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ali99asghar
Aspirant
Oct 31, 2015

Set Up Access List - its gone??

I have been using the Wireless Card Asscess List for the longest time and went in last night to add two devices to my allow list by MAC address.  Could not find the thing, finally opened the manual a...
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vkdelta
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Nov 01, 2015

ali99asghar

 

thanks for writing on the community.

 

what Firmware are you on? who is your ISP?

 

can you please go to Advanced (tab)>security> access control and see if your devices are listed out there? you may need to re-enable and allow/deny access to the devices.

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    ali99asghar
    Aspirant
    Nov 01, 2015

    Firmware: V2.01.12

    ISP: Comcast

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    ali99asghar
    Aspirant
    Nov 01, 2015

    Sorry forgot to mention that only devices listed there are the one already running.  I am trying to ADD new devices, they don't show there.  If I try to connect the device hoping that it will show up here and I can ALLOW it, it does not.  I get a password rejection on the device.  Also I am running 2.4GHz and 5GHz, I allow dedicated devices on one but not both and the Advanced (tab)>security> access control does not give you the option to sort accordlingly.

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      vkdelta
      NETGEAR Employee Retired
      Nov 01, 2015

      sorry, dont understand your use-case here.

       

      what are you trying to accomplish?

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        ali99asghar
        Aspirant
        Nov 02, 2015

        Thanks for taking the time with this.

         

        I have had "Wireless Card Access List" setup running since I got the router in late October 2014 and it has been running great without any issues.

         

        Under "ADVANCED > Advanced Setup > Wireless Settings" I had "Turn Access Control On" checked for both gateway radio's (2.4 GHz and 5GHz) with "Allow List" selected and this is where I had my respective MAC adress listed for each radios.  I no longer see this option anymore.

         

        Goal being:  For increased security, allow only specific wireless computers and devices to access the wireless network based on their MAC addresses.