RTouris wrote Brilliant, so it's a back-to-basics approach in all. However most SOHO routers don't support more than 30-ish fwd rules, any method to circumvent this? Only solution I see is to use...

The TL-SG1008PE is a Gigabit switch. If auto-negotiation sets the ports to 100 Mbit/s mode, it is almost certainly caused by a bad cable, e.g. by using UTP cables instead of S/FTP cables.

Firmware version released 2017--08-28 is V1.2.0. Scheduler works for me with 1.2.0, i.e. turn the radio off at a given time and turn it back on at another time. Maybe there is an error in your setup,...

You need port forwarding to the servers for requests coming from the outside. Just offer the desired services behind router #2/#3 in the 192.168.1.0 subnet (i.e. make ftp/samba service available...

captain! wrote So, do "managed" switches enable actual security (https, ssh, etc.) while "smart" switches just allow anyone snooping traffic to get the plaintext credentials, sign in, and have full...

See http://forum.tp-link.com/showthread.php?99025-How-to-configure-Multiple-SSIDs-with-Multiple-VLANs-on-CAP-amp-AC-products