How to configure Wireless MAC Filtering on Archer C2_V5

Wireless MAC Filtering is used to deny or allow specific wireless client devices to access your network by their MAC addresses.

I want to: Deny or allow specific wireless client devices to access my network by their MAC addresses. For example, you want the wireless client A with the MAC address 00-0A-EB-B0-00-0B and the wireless client B with the MAC address 00-0A-EB-00-07-5F to access the router, but other wireless clients cannot access the router.

How can I do that?

Note: Archer C2_V5 is used for demonstration in this article.

1. Login the router. For how to do that, please refer to How do I log into the web-based Utility (Management Page) of TP-Link wireless router?

2. Go to Wireless (2.4GHz or 5GHz) > Wireless MAC Filtering.

3. Click Enable to enable the Wireless MAC Filtering function.

4. Select Allow the stations specified by any enabled entries in the list to access as the filtering rule.

5. Delete or disable all entries if there are any entries already.

6. Click Add New and fill in the blanks.

1) Enter the MAC address 00-0A-EB-B0-00-0B/00-0A-EB- 00-07-5F in the MAC Address field.

2) Enter wireless client A/B in the Description field.

3) Leave the status as Enabled.

4) Click Save and click Back.

7. The configured filtering rules should be listed as the picture shows below.

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