Future Consideration Whitelisting Mac addresses
Please add whitelisting if you want us to buy the mesh system. I bought it & returned it after I discovered no whitelisting and reverted back to my Netgear mesh system.
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Thanks for the suggesstion, I will pass it along immediately, as it may be the perfect timing.
In the next few months, HomeShield will be receiving a massive 3.0 update bringing more control and many highly requested features to the service. I do not know if the feature is set to be included, but I would not be surprised as the features that we have seen are far more comprehensive than what existed previously
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This request was raised much earlier, 4 years ago, in one of the posts I've seen today (nothing seems to have changed in the meantime).
Having a "blacklist" feature but no "whitelist" is simply ridiculous. I just got the Deco units yesterday, without even feeling the need to check if a Mesh system had the whitelist function as my decade-old tp-link router already had it.
Apart from problems with parental controls and general security as mentioned in earlier posts, is it not obvious why someone would use a Mesh system instead of adding a few more access points to a router? In the absence of a strange wish to spend money for nothing: to have home networks where a user's files can be accessed by various devices without any intervening problems.
Now, why on earth would I put important files on a network that can on paper be accessed by any device, in the absence of the security the whitelist feature provides?
If, as one can readily suspect, this company has "brilliantly"(!) adopted the strategy of canceling well-established and essential functions of router devices only to belatedly offer them in the form of paid-subscriptions, it should better realize that this is bound to fail: They are selling devices, no one would go for "Home Shield" if you demand paid subscription for a feature that the device itself must have.
I got the Deco system for the reason mentioned in the second paragraph and am going to return it now...
Simply ridiculous.
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