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Old 15-06-2016, 08:41
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Quick query here, hopefully one that'll pay off.

In short, a certain location that I frequent has apparently wiped their wifi servers of any foreign objects, and has stopped people from accessing their wifi network with their phones. Before such a date, access was freely avaliable providing you had the wifi password (which I did).

I've been told by a reliable source that this only applies to existing phones, so if someone new came in, or if someone purchased a new phone, they would easily be able to connect.

I'm not going to pretend how this works, but is there a way for me/us to (I suppose) reset our phones so that they would appear new to this wifi connection? Without actually resetting our phones (and thus losing lots of data).
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Old 15-06-2016, 09:00
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If they've just removed existing connections you should be able to reconnect with the password as normal.

If however they have blocked all previous MAC addresses then you have no chance as your device is effectively banned from the network. That would explain why new devices are fine as they were never "blacklisted".

Could be wrong but it sounds lie this may be the case.
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Old 15-06-2016, 09:05
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Nah, you're not wrong, it sounds like that's what has happened. Was just wondering whether there was a way around it was all, but I fear not.
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Old 15-06-2016, 09:08
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If you have a rooted Android phone you could try changing the MAC of your phone, I'm sure that'd be frowned upon though
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Old 15-06-2016, 09:42
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I've got an iPhone.
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Old 15-06-2016, 10:44
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It would be a truly bizarre & stupid method of locking down access to your WiFi network to block access from known MAC addresses but keep the same password.
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Old 15-06-2016, 11:03
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It would be a truly bizarre & stupid method of locking down access to your WiFi network to block access from known MAC addresses but keep the same password.
If this is what is happening, there could be some insane legacy reason - such as the WiFi owner wanting to provide access to some devices that already have the password, and are considered too much hassle (for whatever reason) to change - e.g. devices used by a supplier who is occasionally on site. If so, that'd still be kinda bonkers though!
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