Deco is constantly trying to connect to the internet
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Hello, I only operate the three Deco XE75 as an access point. First of all, the devices work perfectly and the WLAN is very good.
However, I have a problem. If there is no solution for this, I would unfortunately have to return the devices.
I run my own DHCP server, DNS server and time server on the internal network.
Nevertheless, the master constantly tries to access the Internet. I'm running the network behind a hardware firewall and it's getting completely flooded with blocked messages from the Deco. I just want good AccessPoints and I can't understand why the device keeps trying to get to port 443 TCP (HTTPS) in "AccessPoint" mode. Access is also not just sometimes, every 2-5!!!! Seconds it tries to connect.
How can I switch that off and what's the point that the device in simple access point mode wants to access the Internet every two seconds? Ok for an update, but not all the time in normal operation!
Thanks for the help!
I can understand that about the cloud and it's true that I also have access via the app when I'm not in my own network.
However, I looked at the DNS requests from the Deco-Master and found that, in addition to the request for "n-devs-gw.tplinkcloud.com", many other IP addresses were also requested from the DNS server. Including Live, Google, YouTube, Amazon, Reddit and Linkedin.
And no, these requests do not come from WLAN devices, but directly from the Deco master's IP address to the DNS server. You can also see this when you look at the times that this is an automated request from Deco to the DNS server.
So the connection to the Internet is obviously not only used for the mash cloud. Why does the device constantly want to access the websites of the other providers?
