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Dr_Bobio · 08-30-2011, 10:53 PM

Hello everyone!
This is my first post (call for help actually). I have my own Kindle DX (latest generation) that I absolutely love. I bought my daughter one of the new 6" wi fi only kindles for Christmas last year. Got it hooked up to the wi-fi and set up with her own Amazon acct to download books when she could afford them. no problems for months. (Here's my plight) Then one day I'm poking around in my router settings and see a strange MAC address in my router. The manufacturer was identified as "Private"! I thought I was being prudent by blocking that MAC from accessing my router, even though I have it secure with 16 character random generated password. Fast forward one month and my daughter comes up to me and tells me that her Kindle won't connect. Lo and behold her kindle was the owner of that MAC address I blocked. I logged into my router, unblocked the MAC, saved my changes and tried connecting again. No go. Then I went in and totally disabled the MAC filtering feature in my router, saved my changes, tried again. still no go. Then I rebooted the router, checked that my mac filtering setting was still disabled. it was. tried again, still no go. At this point, I am thinking I have a cnote plus paperweight on my hands, but my illustrious wife says we can just download the book she needs for school and transfer it via usb. (I'm supposed to be the computer genius in this house) that solved my problem for the interim, but I would really like to resolve the issue that started this whole trip down Eatcrow Rd. anyone have some advice they can share with a very humbled father?

Thanks in advance
Bobby

08-30-2011, 10:53 PM	#1
Dr_Bobio Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2011 Device: Kindle	I feel like a dope =/ Hello everyone! This is my first post (call for help actually). I have my own Kindle DX (latest generation) that I absolutely love. I bought my daughter one of the new 6" wi fi only kindles for Christmas last year. Got it hooked up to the wi-fi and set up with her own Amazon acct to download books when she could afford them. no problems for months. (Here's my plight) Then one day I'm poking around in my router settings and see a strange MAC address in my router. The manufacturer was identified as "Private"! I thought I was being prudent by blocking that MAC from accessing my router, even though I have it secure with 16 character random generated password. Fast forward one month and my daughter comes up to me and tells me that her Kindle won't connect. Lo and behold her kindle was the owner of that MAC address I blocked. I logged into my router, unblocked the MAC, saved my changes and tried connecting again. No go. Then I went in and totally disabled the MAC filtering feature in my router, saved my changes, tried again. still no go. Then I rebooted the router, checked that my mac filtering setting was still disabled. it was. tried again, still no go. At this point, I am thinking I have a cnote plus paperweight on my hands, but my illustrious wife says we can just download the book she needs for school and transfer it via usb. (I'm supposed to be the computer genius in this house) that solved my problem for the interim, but I would really like to resolve the issue that started this whole trip down Eatcrow Rd. anyone have some advice they can share with a very humbled father? Thanks in advance Bobby