I continue to try and wrangle my WLAN to conform to my will and it remains difficult :-(
My main router is an Asus GS-AX3000 and I have an RT-AC1750 B1 running as a repeater. Both use standard ASUS-WRT for now.
It is interesting as devices that are connected to the wifi of the repeater are shown on the main routers as if they were connected via ethernet. However, on the repeater they show as if they are indeed wifi devices and vis-vis. I guess it makes sense. But I was surprised anyhow. More newbie-ism!
Anyhow, I would like to prevent some/most of my wifi devices from connecting to the repeater. This happens even though the devices are closer in proximity and signal to the main router, where I want them. I THINK this MAY happen during the nightly reboots of the main router - which I have always done at 4:30am. Since the repeater is a new addition, I have not yet implemented a nightly reboot of it. My guess is that while the main router is rebooting, at least some wifi devices still see the repeater's wifi (which has same SSIDs and channels as the main router - seemingly setup by the ASUS-WRT firmware that way - which is fine by me so I don't have to re-program or deal with additional complexity). So they connect to that and stay there until they have some good reason to switch back to the main router (like my turning the repeater off).
Normally, I would try to use MAC filtering on the repeater to try and prevent the devices in question from gaining a connection there. But in repeater mode, there is no UI for doing this. It may be that in this mode it simply will not work or it may be that ASUS-WRT is simply dumbing-down things to make repeater setup easier. If the latter is true, then I wonder if there is some way for me to setup the mac filtering via command line ssh/telnet?
Thanks
My main router is an Asus GS-AX3000 and I have an RT-AC1750 B1 running as a repeater. Both use standard ASUS-WRT for now.
It is interesting as devices that are connected to the wifi of the repeater are shown on the main routers as if they were connected via ethernet. However, on the repeater they show as if they are indeed wifi devices and vis-vis. I guess it makes sense. But I was surprised anyhow. More newbie-ism!
Anyhow, I would like to prevent some/most of my wifi devices from connecting to the repeater. This happens even though the devices are closer in proximity and signal to the main router, where I want them. I THINK this MAY happen during the nightly reboots of the main router - which I have always done at 4:30am. Since the repeater is a new addition, I have not yet implemented a nightly reboot of it. My guess is that while the main router is rebooting, at least some wifi devices still see the repeater's wifi (which has same SSIDs and channels as the main router - seemingly setup by the ASUS-WRT firmware that way - which is fine by me so I don't have to re-program or deal with additional complexity). So they connect to that and stay there until they have some good reason to switch back to the main router (like my turning the repeater off).
Normally, I would try to use MAC filtering on the repeater to try and prevent the devices in question from gaining a connection there. But in repeater mode, there is no UI for doing this. It may be that in this mode it simply will not work or it may be that ASUS-WRT is simply dumbing-down things to make repeater setup easier. If the latter is true, then I wonder if there is some way for me to setup the mac filtering via command line ssh/telnet?
Thanks
