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Odd entries in Attached Devices with WAP connected
Hi guys. The WNR3500 is quite an old model I know but it serves me well with the simple home network I run. (It's apparently so ancient the system won't let me list its model number above!) As it is 2.4GHz only on wireless I have done a test set up of my now redundant BTHomehub5 as a WAP in the living area of our house for its 5GHz capability. For those who may not know this is a router/modem supplied in the UK by BT to its customers, (I am not a client of theirs any longer), and isn't too bad by "ISP supplied item" standards. The BT WAP DHCP server is set off and it has a reserved IP address set by the WNR3500 router outside of the WNR3500 DHCP server allocation range but in the same subnet mask as the rest of the network. It is recognised by the WNR3500 and listed correctly in its attached devices table. Devices connected to it can see each other and access the internet without problems. The 3 areas of the wireless side of the network, Netgear 2.4GHz, BT 2.4GHz, BT 5GHz, each have different SSIDs and Wireless Keys and all use WPA2 encryption. Everything seems to work as it should apart from two things. First the BT Homehub 5 spontaneously reboots regularly. This is a known issue with its latest firmware and I would guess will have nothing to do with the problem I want advice on. When it is up it works perfectly but if it turns out to be affecting things then it will have to go. Second, I have a Samsung Galaxy Ace smartphone, a bit long in the tooth, which I connect via the BTHomehub5 2.4GHz. It sees all 3 available wireless networks and can connect to each of them. Even when connected through the BT 2.4GHz wireless it does not show up in the administration network display on the Homehub administration page. On the Netgear I have set up Wireless Access Control for each wireless device and Network Address Reservation for each of my wired devices. The Samsung is included in the Wireless Card Access List correctly and initially I did not set it up as a wired device. When I don't include it in the reserved address list it shows up in the attached devices list 5 times, each with the same correct MAC address and each with a different IP address. If I include it in the reserved address list under LAN it is then correctly displayed only once with its reserved IP address. The thing which makes me doubt the correctness of this is that the reserved address page is under LAN and it is a wireless device. Is it simply that once the Galaxy Ace's connection is into the network via the BT WAP the Netgear router then sees it as a wired source because that is how it is receiving it? If so does that mean I will have to include any wireless device which connects through the WAP both in the Wireless Access list and in the LAN Reserved Addresses?Solved
WNR3500Lv2 - How to create traffic percentage use rules
Hidy ho everone, I have a WNR3500Lv2 router, thats been pretty good to us so far. What I wanted to do was to try and create a blanket rule, for every device that connects to my router. Restricting traffic use, and up/down speeds unless otherwise stated. That way, I can use mac addresses to give devices more priority as needed. I know its possible to do that, with specific sevices. But I don't want to specify a service, I want to use a blanket rule. Can this be done?Solved
