indeed, Im just glad you posted because TP-link were implying it was me that was misunderstanding how to use the router but i think its clear this IS a dangerous situation because as you say its easy...

Cheers for the response , I am aware of your suggestions but always helpful to anyone looking at this particular problem. In my case i switched off the FW as setting all that up would be a pain...

I have been in contact with TP-Link support and they have reproduced this serious fault. According to our test, we may only switch on deny of the firewall or disable the firewall so that the advanced...

So iv been tinkering around and iv found that its when iv got the firewall switched on firewall = on Allow (the packets not specified by any filtering rules to pass through the device) No rules can...

I had allowed someone to access the net through my "guest network" wifi. I definitely set the advanced settings to NOT allow LAN access. Yesterday i found him looking through one of my computers...

well this is a very dead forum (tumble weed roles by, spam is left up for days) . So anywhere eles i can ask my simple question ?