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clipod
Aspirant
Sep 21, 2022

Netgear nighthawk MR60 access control doesnt work

Hi I am trying to enable access control to block certain devices. There are few devices that I am not aware of and I cant change password as its a pain to go through rest of my 40 devices for resetting my password. So I tried to enable access control and block unknown devices. My laptop is one of the allowed device. Once I enable access control, any website that I try to access is failing with a certificate issue. For example, when I clicked youtube.com, I am getting a certificate error because it shows that the certificate is from routerlogin.net

 

I gave up and tried revert back by disabling the AC, but everytime I tried to uncheck the box "Turn on Access Control" and click "Apply", it asks for router credentials and it reloads the page. I had to repeat close to 30 times and luckily on the final attempt, when I click "Apply", it stayed in the same page. Need help to block certain devices in my network without changing password.

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  • FURRYe38's avatar
    FURRYe38
    Guru - Experienced User
    Sep 21, 2022

    What Firmware version is currently loaded?

    What browser are you using? Try a different browser? MS Edge, Firefox or Opera?

    • clipod's avatar
      clipod
      Aspirant
      Sep 21, 2022

       

      V1.1.6.124_2.0.59 is my firmware version. I tried to update if there are any newer releases but nothing showed up. I tried in Chrome, Safari. Also my other apps like slack, outlook etc threw a connection error.

      Is there any other way to kick those devices out of my network?

      It is such a sad experience from netgear to not have control on the devices that got connected with/without your knowledge.