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Trying to disable WPS (bringing the topic to the top of lists again)
So - I've had my R6300v2 for a day. I've fiddled with most settings and I'm happy that for most things it'll do what I need. ALL EXCEPT WPS! A week ago I ordered a D-Link which shocked me when I found the WPS couldn't be turned off AND the unalterable PIN was printed on the base. Sent it back. Very odd as I have a little DIR-615 which CAN turn WPS on/off and alter the PIN all from the web interface. I looked at NetGear models, read through User Guides and went for the R6300. I definitely got the impression that you could turn WPS on or off. I've tried a whole bunch of variations but WPS stays on regardless ... ON THE TWO MAIN SSIDs. Quite interesting to note that WPS does not appear on the Guest SSIDs when activated. For a moment I thought I had the answer to my problem - use the Guests and disable the main ones. Alas - as you are probably already thinking - turning the main SSID off disables that WiFi frequency entirely. So, I'm left wondering WHY has this feature been omitted? And why is there no official response to at least one of the previous WPS threads on here? In fact, if you search, you'll find one respondent even says they were treated poorly by telephone support when they contacted them. I refuse to believe that a feature available in older hardware is now impossible to implement. The underlying silicon almost certainly has been developed from older designs and they are unlikely to have removed any features. So, come on NetGear - one (or more) of your bright developers needs to say, "You know, there are a lot of articles discussing the problems and insecurities of WPS, as a Google search of the last month shows. Perhaps we should give our customers the ability to turn it off if they want. No-one will moan if we give them more features."Solved