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Is it possible to control device access per satellite?
For example, I have a satellite in a basement that has 3 devices physically plugged into it. It has poor signal but is sufficient for the small amounts of data the 3 monitoring devices require. I am trying to prevent a laptop in particular from ever connecting to this satellite.
You may configure a MAC ACL (Access Control List) to prevent the specific laptop to connect to the SSID. To know how to configure this, kindly read pages 48-53 of the Orbi Pro user manual here.
As far as I have check the Orbi Pro user manual here, it seems that there is no option to control device access per satellite.
And this makes perfect sense - this would require a lot of overhead and modifications of the radio firmware to become able to answer with "custom" 802.1k neighbor reports - one of the key features on all Mesh system designs - based on the MAC (BSSID) of the client where only MAC (BSSID) of neighbouring access points are reported - depending on the MAC allow resp. MAC deny lists on each individual access point.
