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crumbs22
Aspirant
Oct 01, 2015

Ex2700 doesn't work if router's Access Control on

I have a netgear router and EX2700 extender. I want access control on at the router but it stops the extender from working. I have tried connecting the extender then adding it to the permitted list at...
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Babylon5
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Oct 01, 2015

I think that the extender sends modified MAC addresses to the base station for devices associated with the extender. So if you temporarily disable base station access control the extender devices should connect, you should then be able to see the MAC addresses of those devices at the base station and be able to add them to the access list.