by the way: the fact that you think I'm too stupid to understand the repercussions of disabling DHCP might not be the message you want to send to people paying €260 for your hardware...

  @David-TP 

 

Thanks for welcoming, and thanks for your reply. 

 

The Deco currently is the NAT gateway, but I don't need parental control or homeshield. I also have a TP-Link AX3000, on which you actually can turn off DHCP and parental control and homeshield still work...

I tried setting a static route in the Deco, but it doesn't send that static route through DHCP. I need my mobile devices (laptops etc.) to get their routes from DHCP, because they only need it when connected to my network, so I shouldn't set it statically.

 

Kind regards,

Hans

First of all, your voting buttons don't work - they only create a reply with a weird title! Anyway... 

 

Why oh why TP-Link do you think that not having such a fundamental option to disable DHCP on an expensive and technically advanced system is something that customers want?! It's such an oversight and very naive to think that, and will drive a lot of business away.

 

Please do enable this feature ASAP to address what is clearly a wide-spread annoyance and anger with your customers.

Agreed, at least give us the option to disable the DHCP server. It is quite annoying. 

 

Than it's OUR choice to use the parental options or other functionalities (which I don't want to use anyway)  

 

I'm using Adguard for ad filtering and sometimes I want to block services for my kids but this quite hard because of that DHCP server. I need to make reservations for every device in order to create clients in AdGuard so I can set filters and check the statistics

 

Don't think for us, don't take decisions for us.  leave us the choice wether we want to use it. For example, you could provide an "Expert Firmware"  for users like us where we have more options. Put some disclaimers in it that it isn't for the novice users and you're done