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Wireless devices connected to same AP can't see each other
I have and MR60 and two MS60. If two wireless devices are connected to the network via the MR60 they can not see each other / connect to each other / access each other. However both devices can be s...
Well I decided to do some additional testing today. I shut down all the MS60 and disconnected the MR60 from the switch. And still all devices wirelesses connected o it had issues. So clearly an issue with the MR60 and how it is routing things.
I spent time going through settings, and found the culprit (though I think it is a different culprit than last time as I don't recall ever messing with it).
under Advance->Security->Access Control "Turn on Access Control" was checked, rule was set to "allow all new devices to connect" all devices listed (wired and wireless) were set to allowed.
So nothing obvious that it would be the culprit, but I went I'm testing things...
So I unchecked it and thus disabled Access Control and now all devices connected wirelessly to to MR60 can see see each other.
NK1 wrote:
It is clear you have no clue about networks and how they work...
This is quite possible. Sadly, I am not helped in this by your failure to tell us in simple terms what you really want to achieve.
Talk of devices "seeing each other" on wifi tells us nothing about your intended goal.
There can be lots of reasons for asking about that: the answers will depend on the intended result.
For example, if you were to ask "How do I stream videos from my mobile phone to my TV screen?" then maybe a true expert might be able to step in.
As is often the case, the longer and more complicated the question, the harder it is to work out what is really needed.
There are lots of bright people in this community who know far more than I do about this tech stuff, that they have not jumped in to rescue suggests that they may be as baffled as I am about the "question".
My intended goal is for the network to work correctly. And what I wrote says exactly what my intended goal is and exactly what the issue is. Unfortunately, you came in with a limited understanding of networks and how they work and tried to answer by insulating, because I wasn't asking a simple level issue that you knew the answer to. I've been working with networks for around 25 years, I use to do network administration, had formal training in network infrastructure, use to configure network hardware, etc.. But I've been out of the field for sometime, and when I was in, I mainly delt with wired infrastructure and not wireless and now I just dabble here and there, and of course this is a consumer level device where a lot of settings and controls are dumbed down, hidden, or even not available etc.
I don't need to know "how to stream..." I need to know why the two devices will not see each other when and only when they are connected to the same wireless access point, and if there are solutions/work arounds.
I even gave you clear examples of a chromcast and a computer/phone/tablet unable to communicate with one another if both connected to the MR60 wirelessly but able to if one of the devices was connected via Ethernet or one was connected to one of the MS60 in the network and the other to the MR60.
In many ways the devices are acting as if they are on different networks from one another when both attached to the MR60 wirelessly, except they clearly are not as every other device on the network that isn't wirelessly connected to that access point can see them just fine. So there is something going on in how the MR60 deals with connected wireless devices that is preventing data to be transmitted between them, but allows them to communicate to any other device on the network that is not wirelessly attached to the MR60.
