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DougB628
Jan 28, 2019Apprentice
Status:
New Idea
Independent access control for Guest and Main networks
Access control on the Orbi today applies to all wireless networks. This is great for devices that you want to ban altogether. But what about the friends of your kids, where your kid has shared the Ma...
DougB628
Jun 25, 2020Apprentice
Actually, looking into this further, I believe my daughter's friends may have been connected to the Guest network. But I can't tell. I don't believe the Attached Devices list clarifies which network they are connected to. But I still think that MAC address filtering should be specific to each network - for example, I want to block all but my family from our main network, and I want to block my kids from the guest network. That way they can't circumvent when I shutoff their access to the main network by connecting to the guest network.