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bertschj
Jan 08, 2015Aspirant
Connect to WiFi via MAC address security?
Have WN3000RP and added it's MAC address to my router. With MAC filtering on, I cannot connect to WN3000RP and get Internet. If I remove filtering, it works fine. Is there a way to make this work?...
fordem
Jan 08, 2015Mentor
I'm assuming you have MAC filtering enabled on the router - which will not see the MAC address of the wireless client when it's connected to the extender, as the packets will have the MAC address of the extender, so make sure you put the extender's MAC address in the list.
Having said that, I want to make sure you know that MAC filtering is generally a waste of time - it provides no security and anyone with the knowledge can get past it in less time than it takes you to read this.