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I have a couple of Deco M5 mesh wifi devices. For their main job of providing wifi across the house, they work very well. However I've recently had a few problems where web sites become unavailable. One of these recently was TP! For a while I thought the site must be down. It wasn't accessible on Safari or Firefox on my Mac. Went through all sorts of contortions trying to work out what was wrong. Eventually I contacted a couple of TP members by email/SM and discovered that it had actually been available all day. Some 15 hours after all this started, I had a look on the Deco app and discovered a list of blocked sites, multiple ccesses blocked that day, all TP!
Other sites I've been blocked from include patreon and one day imap.google.com (that one must have come good on its own).
There are other sites that look pretty suspicious, so it's doing a job. It also claimed to have defended us against an attack from 192.168.68.106 Classification Protocol SNMP_request_udp. Duno, that doesn't sound like an attack to me.
I looked on TP-Link's customer support site and found no information or customer comment about this.
This has happened enough times without any alert that I'm planning to switch off the Malicious Content Filter (which claims to block "malicious websites that are listed in the database [sic] to ensure you can surf the net in safety"). I have BitDefender so I'm hoping that will do its job, but it's not on phones or the iPad.
I mention this partly as a headsup for folk who use Deco and might have been having strange outages recently, and also to ask if there's anything else I should be doing.
Other sites I've been blocked from include patreon and one day imap.google.com (that one must have come good on its own).
There are other sites that look pretty suspicious, so it's doing a job. It also claimed to have defended us against an attack from 192.168.68.106 Classification Protocol SNMP_request_udp. Duno, that doesn't sound like an attack to me.
I looked on TP-Link's customer support site and found no information or customer comment about this.
This has happened enough times without any alert that I'm planning to switch off the Malicious Content Filter (which claims to block "malicious websites that are listed in the database [sic] to ensure you can surf the net in safety"). I have BitDefender so I'm hoping that will do its job, but it's not on phones or the iPad.
I mention this partly as a headsup for folk who use Deco and might have been having strange outages recently, and also to ask if there's anything else I should be doing.
