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I have my AC68U and a wireless extender setup with the same SSID. Is there any way I can FORCE a few of my devices to CONNECT to the EXTENDER v.s. the AC68U? I would like to keep the SSID for both the AC68U and the extender the same.

The reason I'm asking is for my Sonos devices. In order to stream one radio station through multiple devices (in sync) they all have to be on the same router or extender (and yes, somehow the Sonos software is able to detect this). The majority of the devices go through the extender based on where they are in my house.

Any creatives ideas I could achieve this without having to change the SSID of my extender? All I could think of is setting a wireless mac filter on the router itself against one of the devices and trying that...but I doubt that will work. Thanks...
 
Only way I can think of is via MAC Filter, And use reject filtering mode and input the MAC address of the devices you don't want to connect to the AC68U, Or use the accept filtering method whatever suits your needs.
 
Hi

I ran into the same problem but the opposite.
I have an RT-68U and a Lyra connected as ai-mesh.
The RT is master and Lyra as a node.

I can connect to RT and log on to admin pages and limit with mac but I want to do the opposite log on to Lyra and limit mac but that seems impossible.

Any ideas?
 
Hi Agron,
I have an RT-68U and i'm thinking to buy a lyra mini and use them as ai-mesh.
How the lyra is connected to RT?(ethernet or air)
Are you satisfied with this setup?

thanks
 
Hi Agron,
I have an RT-68U and i'm thinking to buy a lyra mini and use them as ai-mesh.
How the lyra is connected to RT?(ethernet or air)
Are you satisfied with this setup?

thanks
Hi

Over air
It works quite fine actually so far this is the only thing I have run into.
I have a Lyra not Lyra mini. Mini is lower speed I believe.

A bit tricky to setup at first. Firmware that supports ai mesh was not installed in the Lyra so I had to connect as if it was a normal router then upgrade fw and in the next step connect it as mesh

The answer from ASUS support was to connect with computer and Ethernet cable to the Lyra.
 

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