Firewall Between Wired/Wireless on Netgear R6300

[jisbell5]

Hello All,

I just upgraded to Gigablast in my area. The service provider installed a Netgear R6300 (AC1750) at no cost. It replaced a Belkin AC 1200 DB Wi-Fi Dual-Band AC+ Gigabit Router.

Problem: I can no longer Remote Desktop from my wireless Laptop to my wired Desktop in another room with the new Netgear router. I could with the Belkin router. As a matter of fact, I still can with the Belkin if I unplugged the Netgear and reinstall the Belkin. I already validated the switch back to the Belkin router, and ability to Remote Desktop from wireless to wired, to eliminate both computers settings, software, updates, etc. Another tidbit, I can ping from one computer to another on the wireless side or on the wired side with the Netgear router. I can't ping from wireless to wired, or vice versa, on the Netgear router. I only want to be able to Remote Desktop from within my home, nothing outside of network.

I already called Netgear and unfortunately after 30 mins was told that I need to subscribe to a 6 month or 1 year maintenance program in order for them to help.....

I think it is something fairly simple but beyond my capabilities so a posting on Tom's Hardware should do the trick.

Thanks in advance!

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The guest login is disabled. The firmware is up to date. It is unfortunately customized firmware from the provider, cox, loaded onto the router. I don't see any setting for wireless isolation on the R6300 either. I guess I could just set up the Netgear R6300 as another Access Point by just plugging it into the back of the Belkin AC1750 and use the Belkin for the wired desktop that I want to remote access into via wireless on my laptop and have those to hooked up to the Belkin. It would be a work around but would be clutter having both routers working at the same time.

 

[bill001g]

It should not work that way. It would prevent people from printing to lan attached printers from wireless.

There is a feature called wireless isolation. It is suppose to prevent wireless devices talking to other wireless devices. It is not suppose to prevent wireless to wired. You could try to disable the wireless isolation feature and see if it makes a difference.

Now if you were to have connected to a "guest" network on your router that is the main feature that makes a guest network different. Make sure you are not connecting to a ssid that you have configure as a guest.

It is not a firewall feature. You see people asking here how to accomplish that and the answer is you can't with factory firmware. Even with third party firmware you have to put the lan ports and wireless to be in different vlans to put firewall filters in.

You should be able to download new firmware from the vendor site without a contract. Check if yours is up to date. Maybe it is just a strange bug.

 

[jisbell5]

It should not work that way. It would prevent people from printing to lan attached printers from wireless.

There is a feature called wireless isolation. It is suppose to prevent wireless devices talking to other wireless devices. It is not suppose to prevent wireless to wired. You could try to disable the wireless isolation feature and see if it makes a difference.

Now if you were to have connected to a "guest" network on your router that is the main feature that makes a guest network different. Make sure you are not connecting to a ssid that you have configure as a guest.

It is not a firewall feature. You see people asking here how to accomplish that and the answer is you can't with factory firmware. Even with third party firmware you have to put the lan ports and wireless to be in different vlans to put firewall filters in.

You should be able to download new firmware from the vendor site without a contract. Check if yours is up to date. Maybe it is just a strange bug.

Hi Bill,

Thanks for your reply. The guest network is turned off. The firmware is up to date on the Netgear R6300v2. However, it is a custom firmware with a .cox modifier at the end of the firmware version. I have not been able to find anything, or any setting, on the Netgear R6300v2 regarding wireless isolation. I am wondering if I should force an update to the latest stock version of firmware for the router instead of the custom firmware.