Deco Mesh cause trouble on whole network when power outage occurs - every time
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Every time the power goes out in my house and returns on, the Deco mesh units give out a random 192.168.68.xxx address to client on the network. It then stops even physically connected devices from getting an IP address..
At what point did someone at TP-link think that when the mesh devices were in AP mode, in the absence of a DHCP server, to just give devices a random address... This is not a thing in enterprise land, so why would it be for residential? I cant even give the APs a static IP address. The new updated app doesnt even tell you what hardware version and firmware is on each node.
Whats the point in having it in AP mode then???
In my case, the Deco gives everything its own IP before my main router has time to boot up and start allocating DCHP requests.
Please remove this silly feature. I spend a good 30 mins everytime having to reboot all switches, routers and devices when the power goes out. This issue has onyl started when I purchased and installed the Deco mesh network.
Does anyone else have this problem. I can see threads from back in 2018 https://community.tp-link.com/en/home/forum/topic/104512
and clearly TP-Link has not listened to their customers.
