@TP-Link 

Must agree with above comments. Relying on an app on 5-6" screens for configuring devices with the possibility of the app being outdated/removed = paperweight devices if anything happens to them. I can manage all my other devices at home from my computer since it is easer to read, easier to see 2 interfaces at the same time and easer to have help on screen if i need to troubleshoot instead of jumping back and forth between apps in a small phone.

Come on, just do firmware update with web-interface where same things can be configured without needing a connection to internet.

Seriously considering returning the 3 X60 i picked up today. Considering the pricetag on those devices (at least for me it's expensive) I expected more.

/Z

  @TP-Link

Seriously guys, choosing intentionally neuter what is the primary method of router configuration for most people is frankly insane.

Forcing people to use a phone for network admin is going to cost you a lot of custom. The more people realize that this is your new normal the less of your equipment they will buy. You are literally pushing people to your competitors because of an arbitrary decision in your initial plan.

I will be returning my shiny new X73 as not fit for purpose, and will buy something from one of your competitors.

Just reading back my own message I still can't even get over how stupid this is. Never in my wildest dreams did I expect the access points would not have a web interface or that they couldn't be configured when offline.

@TP-Link I bought 5 decos to get whole house coverage. 5 of them. If I had known before purchasing they didn't have a web interface that many standard things you might want to customise aren't configurable at all, I'd have run a mile.

As it stands I am here writing this because my main internet connection is down. My 2nd line is up and running, and on my PC I have my network card configured to use my 2nd gateway so I can continue to get internet access. My wife, who needs internet access for her work tonight to complete an important task, cannot do this as it's a company issue laptop and she can't change the network adapter config.

OK no problem, let's configure the Decos to use a different gateway. Oh snap, we can't, because they can only be configured via the app, via the cloud. But they have no internet connection.... 

Please roll out a firmware update with a web UI. It wouldn't take much effort. It only needs to allow you to configure a handful of things.

  @NotInChina 

I'm also considering returning my Deco XE75 due to the lack of a web-based management tool.

  @TP-Link 

Not good enough. Had I known before I purchased this that I had to use an app, I would not have bought it. It is even worse now that I have opened it and I am unsure that I will be able to return it.

Also, Unfortunately, there has been no plan to add these features yet. Deliberately misleading is the same as lying - you know that, right? Throwing in a couple of words like 'has been' and 'yet' to soften the blow when you have zero plans to ever launch a browser version is deliberately misleading and therefore lying.

Now I'm going to trundle off to the store to try to return these devices which may well have been brilliant, but I will never know because I haven't even turned them on and never will.

The lack of a web UI is appalling. I left a 1-star review on Amazon.

I had originally intended to replace my router with the S4.

Due to the lack of a web UI I ended up changing the Operation Mode my S4 to Access Point so that I can continue to admin my old router via the browser.

  @TP-Link I logged in here just to say I'm returning the X25 Deco set that I just bought because of the insane lack of this functioanlity and the obnoxious responses in this thread. First and last TP-Link product.