WIFI connected devices not showing up as WIFI clients
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Hello,
I have my device in Access point mode as I have another router handling the DHCP portion of the network.
I have multiple devices connected to the Wifi network and yet only one device shows connected when I log into the management page.
Shouldn't all the devices show up un the WIFI section? I am trying to verify who is connected to the Wifi portion of my network.
I have verified all the devices are on the correct network with the correct subnet masks. I have also verified on my DHCP server that they are active, but again I want to verify this on the TP-link WIFI section.
Any help would be great.
Thanks
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Same problem
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Another one to add to the list, the WA1201 also has the bug. In fact from having read through this entire thread, after finding it while searching for a solution to the problem with the WA1201, it looks like it's endemic to all TP-Link wireless products.
This is a pretty ridiculous situation, I've never before encountered a wireless AP that's unable to tell you what's connected to it.
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Talked to a friend of mine earlier who does this sort of thing for a living, as soon as I described the problem he said "what they're doing is taking the client list from the ARP table instead of the WiFi-connection table". This matches the comments from @Carl about it being ARP-related, but that's not an excuse for why it's happening, it's a description of a serious flaw in the TP-Link firmware which seems to exist throughout their product line.
In other words the response shouldn't be "well it happens because of this", it should be "we've now identified a design flaw in how our software works and are working on a fix". The client list should not be built from the ARP table but from the WiFi-connection table. This then also allows the device to show attempted-but-failed connect attempts, which is essential when you're trying to debug failed-auth problems and similar.
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Someone or even tp link found a solution yet?
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Same issue here
Brand new Archer C6.
Some 20 clients successfully connected to the Archer - all fully working - only 6 showing up in the client list.
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I spent €85 and can't even see the full list of devices in my network. It has been almost TWO YEARS and still no fix for a simple thing like this.
A great reason to stay away from any device from tp-link for the rest of my life.
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Brand New out of the box AC1750 same issue .. no Clients -- everything is connecting and working well but no list ... this sucks
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@IronAddictAZ Return it if you still can. Stay away from this company for wifi routers, they aren't supporting them as well as other vendors.
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Crazy! 3 years and still the same bug. Good that it happened to me now, that I need to buy a lot of devices... At least this helped me to decide which brand I shouldn't buy
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