Trying to disable WPS (bringing the topic to the top of lists again)

So - I've had my R6300v2 for a day. I've fiddled with most settings and I'm happy that for most things it'll do what I need. ALL EXCEPT WPS! A week ago I ordered a D-Link which shocked me whe...

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doraemon
Aug 11, 2015
You don't have a checkbox to disable WPS in Advanced Wireless Settings?

doraemon

Prodigy

Aug 11, 2015

You don't have a checkbox to disable WPS in Advanced Wireless Settings?

Sarevian

Aspirant

Aug 15, 2015

[Replying to myself to "show" my imperfect solution.]

I think I saw this on another post so I don't claim originality.

Turning off SSID broadcast disables WPS. ..... (as far as I can tell)

I still have both 2.4GHz and 5GHz wireless active but (I guess) WPS doesn't work when there's no name (SSID) to start things off.

The two guest accounts/wireless still show up but WPS doesn't apply to them.

Pressing the WPS button causes the LED to flash very fast for a second or two.

Not ideal at all but it works after a fashion.

I'd still like the NetGear developers to add a simple WPS enable/disable checkbox in a future firmware update.

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Trying to disable WPS (bringing the topic to the top of lists again)