Whole Home Wifi - can I lock a mac address to one disc?

kitenski — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 11:50:48 GMT

I have an external camera on a bird feeder that sleeps overnight.

When it wakes up it seems to connect to a disc about 20m away from it, rather than the one with the strongest signal which is about 2m from it!

Is there a way I can "lock" MAC address/specific client to one disc, or prevent it from accessing other discs?

I think I have the original large white BT Whole Home discs, firmware is v1.02.13 build 07

Thanks in advance,

Greg

Re: Whole Home Wifi - can I lock a mac address to one disc?

Keith_Beddoe — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 12:06:19 GMT

@kitenski

On that wireless mesh system, its not possible to force a device to connect to a specific disc. That goes for most wireless mesh systems. You would be better connecting a wireless access point to an Ethernet port on the closest disc, and giving it a different SSID and connect the bird feeder to that network.

Like this https://www.tp-link.com/uk/home-networking/access-point/tl-wa801n/#specifications

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