nobody at tplink knows what their settings actually do???

@Ricky666 My guess is that they're just templates with different typical thresholds, so you're right.

After all, the usual way to detect a DoS is measuring the rate of certain type of packets. If it's below the threshold nothing happens, if it's above the threshold you block the IP address for a predetermined time.

TP-Link documentation states that: "The level of protection is based on the number of traffic packets.".

@mocelet thankyou for the reply. i am thinking this also... i just find it strange that in a home product... setting everything to high with the default 3600p/sec would in fact be the lowest protection possible :-/

can anyone from tplink confirm for sure that a default rate of low actually provides more protection than a default rate of high?

@Stella.Q sorry to tag you but can anyone from tp-link give an official word on this, thankyou in advance

I would not set same rate for all 3 protocols as naturally, you're not opening same amount of connections of that type ...

for ex. I cannot set to high or medium at home for udp and icmp, or some of my devices are blacklisted during the day ...

better would be to find out best practice from TP-LINK what values to set in order to get maximum effective protection and not get performance or blacklist issues ... right now it's try & fail ...

@phoenixxko that doesn't answer my question. i might *want* 3000 people to ping me haha

i tried to get the info from tp-link already but they are ignorant spacks that don't reply

@Ricky666 3k pings at a time ? I don't think you chose right router for it bro :)