How to remove registered clients from clients list
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How do I remove old registered clients from the router (an internal table with device names/MAC addresses)? When creating a parental control, I get an enormous list of devices that aren't in the network any longer, on many pages. I want to rescan the network and eliminate those entries. How do I do that without a factory reset?
I don't mean removing devices from a parental control, I mean removing the decice registrations from the router internal tables so they don't appear as an option when creating a parental control.
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@Whammamoosha thread https://community.tp-link.com/en/home/forum/topic/617740 on this was last replied to August last year //by TP-Link// who then closed the thread for further comment. At that time they promised /again/ to introduce this feature. Clearly they've done nothing in the last ten months or my router bought only a month or so ago would have this feature.
TP-Link would you //please// honour your commitment to adding this feature? You've had four /years/ since this was first raised and done nothing!
*annoyed*
Julian
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If your router has a button or link (like mine has) to view connected Clients, you can use that information to make a list of current clients. Then, ignore all the old ones that no longer exist when setting up the router.
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@Whammamoosha 8 months is short. When I posted asking for the promised update there had been nothing for four /years/. I still have no faith the promised update will ever surface. Incidentally the modification to the GUI to edit the list that you suggested is perfect and /should/ have been in the initial release.
Kind regards,
Julian
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In a brief, these are the security issues, rather than a minor inconvenience:
- TP-LINK SW does not allow blocking a non active client
- TP-LINK SW does not allow removing a non active client from the approved list
For some bizar reason, TP-LINK still allows to set up bandwidth throttling for non-active users, however it does not allow to completely block them. Really?
Why this is a security issue?
Well, consider a case of a small office employee not being employed anymore. There should be a way to block their access without factory resetting the router or changing passwords for everyone. Another example, a family member leaves house due to divorce or separation. By keeping them connected to home WiFi forever TP-LINK fails to provide a very basic security feature ot revoking access rights.
To summarize, unless these issues are fixed, TP-LINK products should not be used in business or home environments that require basic security features such as managing clients.
Do we really need to to bring these security issues to the attention of influencers/competitors to get attention form TP-LINK?
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