Change Wireless 2.4GHz & 5GHz MAC address

[jas0npc]

The jffs partition is part of the router's internal storage, it cannot be anywhere else. You need custom scripts enabled in the Merlin GUI to automatically run them.

Many thanks, Looks like this no longer works, The reason i wanted to change my wifi mac address is this, There is a lot of devices connected by wifi, Streaming, Games consoles, Smart tvs, phones, The amount of earache I would get when all these devices have to be reconnected to a new router.

The plan is to swap out an ageing N66u that is on johns f/w late at night so that no-one would notice, I wanted to pull that out and replace it with an RT-AC88u on latest merlin f/w.

My modem is a virgin superhub in modem only mode.

Any ideas you clever people?

 

[ColinTaylor]

Client devices shouldn't be using the MAC address of the access point to connect, they should be using the SSIDs. So provided you keep the SSIDs the same on your new router you should be OK.

Changing your router (and therefore the WAN MAC address) will give you a new public IP address. That shouldn't normally be a problem but if you think it is then you can clone your old WAN MAC address in the WAN settings.

 

[jas0npc]

Client devices shouldn't be using the MAC address of the access point to connect, they should be using the SSIDs. So provided you keep the SSIDs the same on your new router you should be OK.

Changing your router (and therefore the WAN MAC address) will give you a new public IP address. That shouldn't normally be a problem but if you think it is then you can clone your old WAN MAC address in the WAN settings.

OMG, for years I always thought it was a mixture of the two, SSID aand the mac address, The SSID will be the same.
I never for one moment thought it would be just the SSID.

I will leet you all know how it went tomorrow.

 

[jas0npc]

Well i took the net down and just replaaaced the router, when it came up it just took over, Many thanks.