Orbi RBR 40 device manager shows unknown smart phone without pause resume button

[Kchas]

The unknown smart phone is listed under 5GHz 

[CrimpOn · Accepted solution]

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@Kchas wrote:

The unknown smart phone is listed under 5GHz 

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My guess is that this device is the device that is being used to run the Orbi 'app'.

It is sort of a "by definition thing."  There is no option to pause the device that is managing the Orbi router.

Why is it 'unknown'?  Aha.  Most modern smartphones have a default setting in the Network WiFi to create a 'randomized' MAC address when connecting to WiFi access points.  (For entertainment, search for "Randomized MAC address" on the internet.  Big Brother is alive and well for the paranoid.)

Every time our smartphones update software, that setting gets put back to the default of 'randomized', and I have to go into Network Settings and change it back to "Use the hardware MAC address."

[CrimpOn · Accepted solution]

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@Kchas wrote:

The unknown smart phone is listed under 5GHz 

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My guess is that this device is the device that is being used to run the Orbi 'app'.

It is sort of a "by definition thing."  There is no option to pause the device that is managing the Orbi router.

Why is it 'unknown'?  Aha.  Most modern smartphones have a default setting in the Network WiFi to create a 'randomized' MAC address when connecting to WiFi access points.  (For entertainment, search for "Randomized MAC address" on the internet.  Big Brother is alive and well for the paranoid.)

Every time our smartphones update software, that setting gets put back to the default of 'randomized', and I have to go into Network Settings and change it back to "Use the hardware MAC address."