I recently bought the DWR-953 because it supports a 4G WAN connection. It's firmware seems to offer quite limited features compared to my older D-link router, a DIR-645, which runs the firmware with the orange band on top. In addition, the accompanying user manual is of little help as it only provides absolutely obvious information.
I was trying to invoke MAC address filtering (my intention was to block off a particular device), but it seems as if the device only offers white listing, not black listing:
The two options I have available are:
"Wireless clients with A selected can associate to the wireless LAN and allow/deny connections from unspecified MAC addresses."
"Wireless and wired clients with C selected can connect to this device and allow/deny connections from unspecified MACaddresses."
(see manual here: https://www.manualslib.com/manual/977114/D-Link-Dwr-118.html?page=41)
Is there a way to block of one particular device but allow other devices, provided they have the WPA2 access key?
Also, is there a way to replace the current firmware with the "orange" one?