TP Link Cloud Account Is a Confusing Diasater!
Hi I've used tplink products for awhile. I got some kasa smart plugs which work well but I needed to set up a TP Link cloud account. So recently I got the Deco M3 pack mesh router. I realize this product is designed for ease of use but I'm more of a techie and prefer a browser interface. Got it working but setup raised some concerns for me. I've got a few smart home devices and these are connected to the LAN setup by my M3 mesh router. I wanted to isolate this LAN from my PC's which are connected to a separate subnet LAN. I really don't want to allow remote access to these. Just my smart devices.
Anyway the first flag that was raised I needed to use my account which I set up for kasa to manage the M3 router via a browser. For me, the ability to manage the M3 router is severely lacking. I would like to set my own DNS and use NOIP DDNS. So I'm thinking of replacing the M3 router with an Archer A7 V5 router that supports OneMesh and seems to have the configuration features I want.
So I'm trying to check it out and can't get anyplace.
1st trying to use www.tplinkrepeater.net in firefox just redirects me to the router not to the web. Might just be firefox redirecting from a remebered URL so I used a browser that I hadn't connected to the router and this does get me to the web but it says my account is suspended. so is tplinkrepeater.com for deco mesh.
2nd trying to understand what the Archer A7 V5 will do, so I try to connect to tplinkwifi.net. same redirection problem. But even when I use either Edge or IE - which I never use except for trouble shooting, it brings up my router on my subnet which happens to be an Archer A7 V2. This router seems to have everything I want except OneMesh. Okay with that as I only need the Mesh capability on the LAN that has my smart home.
Now this last problem came from my desktop pc which uses ethernet so i can't get directly to Mesh Lan. So i use a laptop which puts me on my Mesh wifi LAN and trying to get to tplinkwifi. net i get an error message that seems to tell me to connect to my router which supports OneMesh, not my M3 router DecoMesh.
Seems I want to move to OneMesh from DecoMesh and my M3 extenders will work with the Archer A7 V5, a real router. How can I verify this in advance. Or do I need to buy the the Archer A7 V5 try it out and if it doesn't work, return it. Seems kinda dumb to do this, should be able to get the info from TP Link.
Thanks for any help.