Deco Firmware Updates Adding Signal Selection and VPN for Multiple Models

Deco Firmware Updates Adding Signal Selection and VPN for Multiple Models

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Re:Deco Firmware Updates Adding Signal Selection and VPN for Multiple Models
2023-09-17 18:37:55

  @biatch0 

My sincere thanks for finally formally releasing version 1.5.8 for my M4 V2. A completely useless adjustment to the existing functionality, as was the case with firmware update 1.5.6.
It would be to your credit as TP-Link and it would also be high time that you as TP-Link take responsibility and fulfill your obligation to your customers to bring the M4 V2 up to the level of the M4 V4 (Deco 1.6.0 /1.7.0/1.1.0/1.2.0 Firmware Update).
As well as communicating with them about this in a professional manner as befits a software manufacturer and providing them with clear information about this.
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Re:Deco Firmware Updates Adding Signal Selection and VPN for Multiple Models
2023-09-18 06:07:17

  @JaapHoutman I think they won't release a new firmware with 1.6 full functions as V4. They want us tò buy new models or V2 hardware won't support some of the new functions. Too much time has passed...

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Re:Deco Firmware Updates Adding Signal Selection and VPN for Multiple Models
2023-10-01 09:14:56 - last edited 2023-10-01 11:13:26

  @David-TP 
Is there any way to select a manual signal source on Deco E4?
I have an XE75 Pro as a main unit and 2 Deco E4 as satellite units.
The E4's always connect to the main unit, I want them to connect trough each other.
The XE75 Pro has manual signal selection but the E4's doesn't seem to have it.
My bedroom is farther away than my hallway, I don't need blazing-fast speeds there, however, I do need it to be stable and it sometimes drops out because it's always connecting to my main unit and not the other satellite that's closer.

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Re:Deco Firmware Updates Adding Signal Selection and VPN for Multiple Models
2023-10-01 11:01:22

  @PreyK Which hardware version are you using of the M4 and of the XE75 Pro? Thanks.

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Re:Deco Firmware Updates Adding Signal Selection and VPN for Multiple Models
2023-10-01 11:09:36 - last edited 2023-10-01 11:12:25

  @JaapHoutman 

Edit: looks like I mistyped it, I have two E4's not M4.

The XE75 Pro is V2 (EU) and both the E4's are V2 (EU) as well.

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Re:Deco Firmware Updates Adding Signal Selection and VPN for Multiple Models
2023-10-01 11:20:05

  @PreyK The function you are looking for is as far as I understand only supported by V4 of M4:
 

Deco M4(EU)_V4_1.1.0 Build 20230112

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Publicatiedatum: 2023-02-09 Taal: Meertalig Bestandsgrootte: 13.42 MB
 

New features:
1. Support for customizing Satellite Deco signal source.
2. Support for customizing Clients connection preference.
3. Support for Reboot Schedule.
4. Support for NO-IP and DynDNS.
5. Support for setting Effective Time and Bandwidth Limit for guest network.
6. Support detection of WAN-side Ethernet cable specifications and prompts for exceptions in the app.
7. Support IPv6 plus and Dual-Stack Lite.
8. Added Smart DHCP switch under Access Point mode.

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Re:Deco Firmware Updates Adding Signal Selection and VPN for Multiple Models
2023-10-01 11:53:46

@JaapHoutman Thanks! That's unfortunate. But Finally managed to make it work trough some jank.

1. Wrapped my main unit in aluminium-foil so signal strength drops and there's no way it reaches my bedroom unit from the living room.

2. Removed my bedroom unit from the mesh.

3. Moved my bedroom unit to the furhest possible point of my bedroom.

4. Added my bedroom unit as a new device.

5. It connected to my hallway unit!

6. Removed the aluminium-foil.


I wish there was an easier way to do that but oh well... I guess physics works too.

 

 

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Re:Deco Firmware Updates Adding Signal Selection and VPN for Multiple Models
2023-10-01 13:58:23

  @PreyK  Genius! A simpler solution would have been for TP-Link to fulfill its obligations to its M4 V2 customers and ported the functionality of the M4 V4 to

the M4 V2.

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Re:Deco Firmware Updates Adding Signal Selection and VPN for Multiple Models
2023-10-02 05:59:23

@Fabio25 Tp-link's product support is really weird...they're giving continuous updates & new features to 6-year old devices (M5), but ignoring 4-year old devices (M4 V2).

 

Also, the V4 of M4 still isn't available in most countries...V2s are still popular.

Just a M4 (2-pack) user who regrets buying it
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Re:Deco Firmware Updates Adding Signal Selection and VPN for Multiple Models
2023-10-08 11:58:08

  @ImtiazAli 

TP-Link recently announced the X10. Which seems to me to be a worthy successor to the M4. What I miss on the product page of the X10 is a document that describes a clear and complete overview of the functionality that the X10 offers. In my opinion, the same shortcoming also occurs with other models, such as the X20, X50, X60, etc., etc.
What's your opinion on the upcoming X10, also held up against the X20 and X50?
Thanks.
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