RE650 Piece. Of. Junk.
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This thread was locked but I have a comment.
https://community.tp-link.com/en/home/forum/topic/235352
You would think in the 2 years that has elapsed since that thread TP-Link would correct this screw up, but nope, I guess not....
This MAC Proxy thing is a bunch of BS. Nowhere in the sales info is it mentioned.
So this is why I can't get the damn RE650 working. Spent hours trying. It alters the MAC address. My Cisco Access Point has MAC filtering enabled. Guess what, it doesn't let those altered MAC addresses connect. (I disabled MAC filtering as part of my troubleshooting.)
I don't use an ISP router, I have my own domain and static IP addresses and a *real* Cisco class router and DHCP server.
The RE650 extended/repeated wifi uses 54:AF:97:xx:xx:xx which is assigned to TP-Link. It connects to the Access Point using 52:AF:97:xx:xx:xx and then also connects using 0E:44:67:xx:xx:xx. They're using 52:AF:97 and 0E:44:67 locally administered MAC address to do this.
So as mentioned DHCP doesn't hand out the correct IP address and the Cisco Access Point won't allow the connection.
I been in IT networking for over 40 years. First TP-Link product I ever bought. Always thought whey were junk. Now I found out first hand they are junk.
Boxing it up and sending it back...
