Has anyone noticed that the Deco X50 web interface appears to have some 'hidden' options?

When you click certain menu items, certain components appear on the screen and then quickly disappear.

Check out this screen grab from clicking the 'System Parameters' menu item several times until I got a 'failure' message.

These options are not normally available on the 'view' only web interface.

So, is this an indication that some of the capability is/was there, and it's now been hobbled ?

  @TP-Link 

I don't want to sign in with TP-Link ID!. Now how can I manage this device? I had an issue with the static routing settings which caused my devices to lose internet connections and the Deco Router wouldn't allow me to delete the settings from the App, moreover the Deco App is cloud dependent, which means that if there is no internet connection the Deco App doen't connect to the Deco device despite being on the same network. I had to wait for a week to get someone from support to send me a beta firmware that enabled local connection from the Deco App to the Deco device. 

Additionally, during troubleshooting I want to disable the wifi completely and leave only LAN, but I can't since I can't do anything with the APP with no wireless and can't configure the Deco through LAN.  

The web interface looks like it had a backdoor for TP-Link to manage the router but it is not enabled for the OWNER!. like for example manually selecting the WIFI channel through the web interface. Setting up Port Forwarding,... and all the rest of the settings.

Finally, For security reasons I want to disable wifi clients from accessing the router settings and only allow a local LAN connection to manage the router settings with the current state of the Deco you can't.

So let's re-cap, TP-Link lowered the security and disabled many of the user controls and forced them to create a TP-Link Account in addition to charging more.

Please Enable FULL control of the DECO that I paid for (This is my Device and I don't want to be forced to use TP-Link account to use my OWN router)

Thank you

  @Yewtink correct, this joke of a company has only phone apps, so worthless and its been almost 2 years with ZERO response from their non existant support "team"

send this sheet to ebay/swappa, anywhere else but your own house/business

  @akng

Login with another android/apple device and hopefully you know your user name and password.  The only thing you are tied to is the operating system.  They refuse to go WEB UI and to my knowledge don't offer a Windows or MACOS pc version.

  @TP-Link Please be advised that I am returning the Deco 7200 Mesh tomorrow due to the lack of not having complete and secure control over the device and the lack of a Web UI. As a Cybersecurity professional, if I can't fully administer it and lock it down, I don't want it on my network. This is not a professional wireless networking device. Instead it is a compromisable toy for idiots. Thank you for alienating a long time loyal customer and refusing to listen to reason. You've just lost another customer.

  @TP-Link It's amazing how a brand like TP-Link is becoming more decadent simply by not listening. Yes, I know that others like Netgear are adopting the same method of controlling the router through a mobile application, but that does not mean that you are not doing the right thing.

I must say that I don't have many complaints about my Deco XE75 Pro, but calling a device Pro just for adding a 2.5Gbps Ethernet port seems absurd to me. When I bought these devices, I thought that being Pro I could have access to the router through a web page to configure everything easier.

Adding 30+ devices to IP addresses reserved through the mobile app is a pain in the a****.

You also do not have the option of doing a speed test in the application itself, from the router. It makes no sense to commit to creating a mobile application and at the same time expect that everyone has a computer at home with an Ethernet cable to run speed tests.

I also cannot disable the DHCP server to use a device other than the router on my network for that purpose. The DHCP range has to be from x.x.x.10 to x.x.x.250 because you want...

I have to receive notifications from the Discover section because you want them to and I don't have the option to turn that off.

Better to remove the basic parental control, in the end it is too basic and I am not going to pay for something that should be by default.

And like this, other small details that make me regret buying these Deco more every day. Although I have until April 25 to return them, so that may be what I do. I hope you listen and can correct these things, but you can be convinced of one thing: I will never buy anything from TP-Link again.