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Era 100 WIFI issues

  • December 6, 2023
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I have an outbuilding that is connected to the internet through a wireless access point. It is the same signal as the house but with a different name. I have a Five in there so need the outhouse WiFi to be a trusted network. 

My issue is that I have two Era 100s in my conservatory that isnt too far away from the outbuilding so you can pick up the WiFi signal sometimes. They are connected to the network in the house but occasionally pick up the signal in the outbuilding. 

How can I stop them from connecting to this network? The signal is visible but the strength isn’t great unless you’re in the outbuilding. It’s causing them to lose connection and then reconnecting to the house WiFi, but I can’t make the switch networks manually. 

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Best answer by ratty

Try blacklisting the Era100s on the outbuilding access point. 

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ratty
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  • December 6, 2023

Try blacklisting the Era100s on the outbuilding access point. 


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  • December 6, 2023

How would I do this? I’ve gone into the access points settings but there are no options for this (that I can see)

As this is just an extension of the WiFi from the house would this also blacklist them from the main WiFi?

thanks


ratty
  • December 6, 2023

Provide detail on your WiFi arrangements, including make/model of devices, and we might be able to help. 


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  • December 6, 2023

I have a Virgin media super hub 3 in the house and from the hub I have an ethernet cable running to the outhouse. This is connected to a TP link archer C50 which is running in access point mode.

Thanks


ratty
  • December 6, 2023

You didn’t say which version of the C50, but for the latest V6 see section “4. 12. Access Control” in the user guide.


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  • December 6, 2023

It’s the AC1200 and the settings page says it’s running hardware V6. When I go into the settings it doesn’t have the same settings as it would if it was in router mode. 
 

It looks like some of the features are turned off when it is in access point mode. I’m not sure if I can black list on this device?

 

thanks for you help 


ratty
  • December 7, 2023

In the V6 user guide it’s under section “5. 6. 5. Wireless MAC Filtering”.


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  • December 11, 2023

Sorry for the late reply. I managed to get that working. Thanks for your advice.