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virtual MAC addresses?
I saw another thread here that says that the EX6200 extender assigns so-called "virtual MAC addresses" to its clients. This might be why my laptop and iPad can't connect to wifi - I have MAC filtering...
The EX6200 assigns a unique virtual MAC address to each device connected to it. If you use MAC filtering on the main router you would need to add each of the virtual MAC addresses to the filter list.
From the EX6200 Attached Devices help page:
Virtual MAC Address: This is the MAC address of your wireless devices observed from your extender. The MAC addresses of all of the devices that are attached to the Extender will be changed to virtual MAC addresses when traffic is transmitting from the devices to your extender.
If your extender enables a MAC filter/Access control list, you must add these Virtual MAC addresses into your extender.