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Best router I’ve ever owned
I am a conservative shopper. I look for the best I can get for the cheapest price. Never bought a router online and wasn’t sure I’d be pleased but for the price I had to try. It has been the best router I have ever owned. We have echo dots in our kids rooms and one would not stay connected to our old router due to the distance and the obstructions. But with TP-Link we don’t have a problem and all of our devices work all the time. If something should happen to this router I will definitely be replacing it with the same.Show lessGdenbeast
Solid Network Equipment at Fair Prices
As a power user of the internet since the AOL dialup days, back when you could get AOL CD-ROM installation disks from a bin outside of the department store by the truckload, pre-56k modem days ;-) (young folks have no idea what I’m talking about), I must say that TP LINK’s networking equipment is spot on. I have WiFi router, 2 Ethernet switches and 2 extenders and have not had a problem out of anything. All for a decent price. A good value for your hard earned money. I recommend them for sure. … now back to my chat room…Show lessJohnny From South Alabama
Parental Controls Not Working
I bought a specific TP-Link router times 3 to have control over my children’s screen time at the touch of my phone. Everything worked great for a couple months until last update when parental controls went kaput. I have spend nearly $600 to have this control and be a responsible parent. I have turned the bug in multiple times and was not helped once. The answer from the tech support is find a phone that didn’t update and use it until we can release a bug fix. Well no dice. On iPhone 11 Pro Max, iPhone XR, iPhone 7 Plus, and iPhone 6S the same bug exists. You can hit the up address directly and access parental controls that way but that is cumbersome, time consuming, and not at the touch of an app. If on Apple devices and wanting to use parental controls, don’t bother with this app.Show lessBiker judge
Works as intended and described!!!
Honestly love how handy this app is for peeking in on my network if I’m ever just curious about something also love that it will notifies me every time a new device connects to the network wired or Wifi. I would say I wish that could bring all the functionality of the browser interface to the App so I can watch my network traffic without having to log into a browser over a cell network. Or maybe even if they just made a separate network traffic app. (Widget for my Home Screen wink wink) anyways the app works well and I have had no issues with it.Show lesskorruption001
Good parental control
Tether is easy to set up and use. In general design is good that I can specify which device will or will not be allowed accessing wifi in specific hours.
The downside is that the max “time limits” is 8 hours. My kids are teenagers. They have virtual learning during the day, then they need to do homework and play game after virtual learning. 8 hours max does not work. So I just set up internet allowed time. However there are multiple times my kids continue to play their games after the “internet allowed time”, and once I turn on “time limit” their game stop — I can tell bcz kids coming out of their room soon after allowed time is used. As such, I suggest to increase “time limits” from 8 to 16 or 24 hours so that users can choose from a wider limits.Show lessWT MD
Works well but needs work
As a parent of a 13-year-old, tech savvy teenager, I find this app to be useful with parental controls, however with technology changing constantly it needs to catch up. Devices are now coming with a standard setting which changes the MAC address for that device whenever connecting to a specific network. There isn’t a feature on this router to automatically detect a device of the same name, and merge it with a child profile which has downtime and limited time settings. There also isn’t a way to delete old devices that have been identified in the past, which causes there to be many devices of the same name showing as devices to add or delete from a child’s profile. This is quite confusing. There should also be a way to go into a specific device client connected, and see reports on the app of time spent online and browsing history.Show lessJaqcfpmia
Terrible integration with iPad!!!
When I am on my home network, I use my iPad for all of my networking activities. I, like many iPad users, have a keyboard/touchpad case that allows my iPad to be used like a laptop with the iPad positioned in a landscape (widescreen) position. Since iOS 13, the iPad allowed the use of Bluetooth mice and keyboards in an effort to allow users the option to use as a laptop. I find it truly shocking that TP-Link, a company that presents themselves and their products as being for the home networking user, has failed to integrate their flagship app to be used on iPads with keyboard/touchpad cases without having to awkwardly turn sideways with the keyboard positioned vertically to use! What a disappointment! After all the work done to build this app, why would they not put in the minimal additional effort to allow that functionality that would benefit so many of their users?Show lessDaddy (Main)
Parental Controls doesn’t work right
I’d like to see a way to add a bulk list of blocked websites to the parental control profiles (instead of one by one) and to be able to add new devices to those profiles after they have been initially created.
I created a profile in parental controls w/2 devices. When I tried to add more devices to that profile, I was not able to. All the devices were selected, not allowing me to unselect any of them. I figured I’d add them all, then remove the devices not intended for that profile. But when I tapped done, NONE of the devices were added to the profile, even though they were all selected.
Having 4 children, constantly online due to school, homework and socializing, it’s very important to be able to block many unsuitable sites on their devices and those of friends who come by. It’s not useful to have to create a new profile for each new devices. Especially when that profile includes over 20 blocked websites. Please fix this problem. Thanks.Show lessSoccyR
App works and the router too
This is really easy to use and controlling your router/network accessibility remotely from your phone is a nice feature. But it’s not 5 stars because I wish you could toggle the router’s WiFi signal off/on from your phone by using your mobile data plan to access your router via the internet. You have to go and push the button manually. So if I am in my bedroom and I want to turn the WiFi off at night for better sleep, I have to go to the room with the router to manually turn off the WiFi. If you could use your phone data to do that then this app/product would be perfect.Show lessDanorGerald
Good quality and connection
If you run your WiFi off a WPS capable router, this is super easy to install. I have a Google WiFi router with no WPS button so it wasn’t easy to connect it at first. The instructions and app for this device also aren’t clear. I ended up using an Ethernet cable straight to the router and connecting with my WiFi settings on my phone and that got the app going. I had to reset the device once as well. I then realized that plugging this thing into a wall outlet means not being able to use the other outlet on that set. It’s too big and the plugs aren’t positioned so you can used both power outlets. Other than those things, it works great and fairly securely. If you just use your combo cable modem and router, with a wps button on it, this will connect super easily. That WPS link will allow things past your routers firewall though as it’s not as secure as others.Show lesspjkennedy81
