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Naming of attached devices
Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 10:46 am
by wingco1
Hi All,
Would you please consider allowing users to rename devices attached to the router. MAC addresses are fine but really don't help when checking what is connected to the router. It would be much easier for a user to replace the MAC with a meaningful name such as; iphone, ipad etc.,
This option is available in other makes of router.
Many thanks
Re: Naming of attached devices
Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2014 5:13 pm
by harry66
+2nd this idea.
I have use MAC address filtering with my past 4 routers - 3 Netgears and more recently the Sky+ Hub - all three allowed device names to be specified for each MAC filter entry.
Was very disappointed that my new 8800NL does not allow names to be specified for the devices. Not going to be easy to remove devices from the list when they break / get lost etc.
Re: Naming of attached devices
Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2014 5:33 pm
by m-a-r-k
+3
I have MAC Filtering on 6 SSIDs and probably 15 MAC Addresses including guests - a nightmare to keep track of, especially after a corrupted config yesterday.
Re: Naming of attached devices
Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2014 7:19 pm
by MysteryFCM
Would like to see this added too.
Re: Naming of attached devices
Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2015 3:02 pm
by harry66
Dont suppose this got added to the new recent Firmware release?
Re: Naming of attached devices
Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2015 8:28 pm
by Marksfish
Yes please< I would like to see this too.
Mark
Re: Naming of attached devices
Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2016 2:43 pm
by harry66
Bumping this - wishful thinking?
I just had the issue where I ran out of MAC Filter entries and the UI would not let me add any more.
I just had to delete a few randomly and hope for the best...
It is a shame that Billion have chosen not to add this feature...
Thanks!
Re: Naming of attached devices
Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2017 2:36 pm
by anajames
May be they take the step in the near future.
Re: Naming of attached devices
Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2017 3:20 pm
by HarlBen
anajames wrote:May be they take the step in the near future.
I am hoping they will. This needs to be sorted out.
Re: Naming of attached devices
Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2019 9:17 am
by rearmiend
Did you solve the problem?
