Hi,

I have just setup my new Deco's, and to my amazement (not in a good way) I noticed that when I am at work, the Deco App can still connect and see all clients on my home LAN. Not only that, I can even manage the network from this remote location.

This means that someone from TP-Link support, could also just go in and change my network. In fact, anyone who has control over TP-Link can go into my router and change settings, or even worse look around on my network and devices.

I would like to be able to disable this. I would like that only clients connected to my LAN can access the router to manage it. I think it should be a choice of the user whether they want to allow this remote access or not. Especially given that the TP-Link is Chinese, and China has a very poor reputation regarding respecting privacy / monitoring the public.

There is no technical need for this remote access once it is setup. I have used routers for years without any remote access. I understand that it is convenient for setting up the devices, but after that it should be possible to disable this. There is no such thing as "cloud based device" when it comes to a router. There is no part of the operation of the devices that requires something on the cloud in order to function. The protocols and technologies are not designed that way.