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Netgear R6300

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fatboy95

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As title says.. I have a Netgear R6300.. works great.. no issues per say..

I bought it with the hopes to control to have control over the wireless side.. My intent was to be able to shut off access per MAC for specific wireless devices... I have read over the manual a million times.. and can't seem to figure out how to do this.. I know I can turn off the wireless during specific times.. but I don't want it completely shut down.. just to specific mac's on my network..

Thanks for any help..

fatboy
 
Looking at the manual for that router, there doesn't seem to be a way to do what you want. Maybe the Genie app can do it?

If you are willing to take the (minimal) risk of bricking your router, you can flash it with DD-WRT. The latest R6300 version was released in December.

Once you have DD-WRT installed, under Access Restrictions you can create one or multiple policies to deny access on a schedule for certain MACs or IPs. The only problem I've had is the schedule begins and ends at midnight, so if you want to block from 11pm to 7am for example, you'll have to set your router time zone to one hour earlier than your actual time zone, then set the filter from 12am to 8am.

EDIT>> Or instead of the time zone solution, you could create two policies, one from 11pm to 12am, the other from 12am to 7am.
 
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edit: Read the OP wrong. 😛

As AnonymouseUser said, DD-WRT or Tomato firmware would be the easiest way to add the features that you are looking for.
 
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Ok... thanks for the info guys.. I have read about the DD-WRT and Tomato.. not sure it's worth taking a chance on bricking it.. lotta money.. and hard to explain to the wife i just threw $200 away... may have to just use the time off for the lan access and add all the nasty words to the block list..

thanks again..
 
fatboy95 said:
Ok... thanks for the info guys.. I have read about the DD-WRT and Tomato.. not sure it's worth taking a chance on bricking it.. lotta money.. and hard to explain to the wife i just threw $200 away... may have to just use the time off for the lan access and add all the nasty words to the block list..

thanks again..
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I understand your concern, and that's why I mentioned it, but the chances of bricking are very slim. Read the instructions thoroughly, read them again, and then proceed. If you've ever installed an OS, or updated your motherboard's BIOS, you'll be fine.

Also, as I've been using DD-WRT for ~4 years now, I will never go back to stock firmware. All new routers I purchase will have to be DD-WRT capable.
 
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