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What does "Access Control" do? Netgear provides contradictory information
Netgear online help says: "Use the access control feature to block devices from connecting to your router’s Internet connection. Note: Blocking devices with access control only blocks them from acce...
The second one. It blocks devices trying to connect to the router (they don't get IPs and other information such as DNS)
microchip8 wrote:The second one. It blocks devices trying to connect to the router (they don't get IPs and other information such as DNS)
Ah, so it basically functions like a blacklist of "banned devices" that can't connect to the LAN at all (and therefore also can't communicate over the WAN)? I guess that kind of makes sense, though I can't imagine that many home users need such a function. Even this behavior, though, is incorrectly described in the web interface, which says that blocked devices will get an IP but can't communicate over the LAN or WAN ... which doesn't make much sense; what's the point of getting an IP address if a device can't communicate?
It might get an IP (I haven't used Access Control in ages) but as the doc says, it won't be able to communicate with other devices nor access the Internet
microchip8 wrote:It might get an IP (I haven't used Access Control in ages) but as the doc says, it won't be able to communicate with other devices nor access the Internet
I guess so, but it would make more sense the way you described it; the only use for this Access Control function is totally ban a device from the network, right? There's no possible reason that you'd want to allow a device to get an IP address from the router but not be able to communicate on either the LAN or the WAN. I mean, an IP address is utterly useless except for communication with other devices, which Access Control prohibits, so ....