Web UI Configuration
The initial plan of the Deco Whole Mesh system is to configure via Deco APP as we hope to provide a super-easy installation and non-high tech required experience.
Due to this commitment, Deco APP allows us to quickly and easily install Mesh Wi-Fi System by just following the step-by-step set-up wizard. Some users commented, ”This thing literally holds your hand through the full setup. 99% of people will hit next, next, next, and you are on the internet” which is just what we want.
Next, Deco App allows monitoring the home Wi-Fi from anywhere without bringing a laptop and making changes right from your smartphone or tablet. So as long as taking your smartphone with you, the home network activity is under your control.
Then, with a few taps on the APP, the advanced features, like Parental Control, Port Forwarding, and QoS are ready to go.
Moreover, when it comes to firmware upgrades, the Deco APP will automatically push a message when new firmware is ready. All you need to do is click “Update Deco”.
While, with the time going on, we gradually received some feedback that users hope Deco could be configured via web UI or more advanced features could be configured on the web interface. Unfortunately, there has been no plan to add these features yet.
But we are open to any feedback and would be appreciated it if you could let us know why you prefer web configuration to APP setup. So we would collect more brilliant ideas which might be taken into consideration along with the future APP upgrade.
Thank you very much for your attention and please feel free to comment below.
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Give us access to our devices. Disable the Server requirement. It´s just bonkers that you can´t setup the device locally.
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@MakeAWebGUI Did you have any luck with custom firmware installation on deco device?
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@TP-Link I just bought a pair of Deco X10 mesh nodes and I'm incredibly disappointed. The fact that the device needs an app and an online connection just to conduct initial setup is terrible for usability, a privacy nightmare, enables the possibility to strip away my access to my device in the future, and is overall another example of an enshittified product. I've read a few pages on this thread and I agree with most arguments brought up.
I'll be returning the device to the store tomorrow and look for another brand (which is hard enough considering that TP-Link is one of the few mainstream brands available in local stores).
A router MUST have a web UI. Routers ALWAYS had a web UI. When I purchase a router, I assume it has a web UI. Whoever on the product team decided it's an amazing idea to remove the web UI, especially without saying so on the box, should leave the industry.
And don't get me started on the mobile app forcing a ToS involving forced arbitration.
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@TP-Link Please implement a more advanced interface for users to manage/configure router settings through a computer desktop browser. I prefer to sit in front of a computer, mouse, keyboard, and view the settings on a larger screen than on my small phone screen. Thanks.
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@TP-Link This is not a professional product. I just bought 2 be65-5G to try to replace our offices old router with 5G backup. I have to input a hundreds or thousand of static IP and ports forward settings. I search around the web but only way to set this up is using a mobile App, I give up now. Never recommend such product again and will refund the router next week. Also, please update your product support page, it still show I can setup the router using web browser by entering https://tplinkdeco.net. It's misleading information.
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Most users reply the app is CRAP and where is the web UI, well guess what, your screwed because THERE IS NONE.
A web UI has been the standard for years and years on wifi routers yet the we know better than you attitude of tp-link is that customers get what we make not what they want or need.
Sent all mine back.
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Hi, Nice to see you again.
"please update your product support page, it still show I can setup the router using web browser by entering https://tplinkdeco.net. It's misleading information."
-May I know where you find this statement on the support page?
The network configuration needs to be done through the Deco App. There is a basic web admin UI that is mainly used for local firmware upgrade and viewing system logs and other details.
Wait for your reply.
Best regards.
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@David-TP Hi, I found it on Google, you can just simply search tp-link router setup, the first few results are pointed to browser setup in TP-Link support website like https://www.tp-link.com/hk/support/faq/3841/. And also like this page, which always misleading me TP-Link's modern routers are using this setup method. Now, I knew there is a sentence: This Article Applies to: (Heart), I need to click on the "Heart" and read the small letters, finally know this support page is not related to the Deco router including latest model.
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