Originally Posted by
Steve B.
Only slightly important but I had read that MAC address filtering on home networks can be readily sniffed and spoofed, thus stopped using it and just went with a really strong password. Doing that alleviates the issues of addresses when connecting to new devices, as you've discovered. My Bolt was a simple connection once it knew the home WiFi password.
In the field - I.E. when away from a WiFi connection, the Wahoo smartphone app can use it's cell data connection to access the RWGPS site, generate and save a route, etc... Once that route is in the RWGPS system, it'll show up on the Wahoo companion app and can then be downloaded and sent to the Bolt via it's BT pairing. This ability with no WiFi can be useful and is one of the methods I read for generating a new route if you've gone off course, which the Wahoo units have trouble with, and want to create a new route to your destination.
I'm currently running a router behind a router system. It makes it a bit harder to spoof my filter list. The main router is the providers modem/router and mine sits behind it. Which is a good thing because I got a response back from Wahoo and they said the Elemnt and the Bolt use randomly generated MAC addresses for security reasons. I don't know why a bike computer needs that kind of security, but ..... So, I enabled the wifi for the primary modem and I have the Bolt connected to it. Didn't really want to do that but I also wanted to keep MAC filtering enabled.