GreglyFeb 28

So I have this recently-bought router from TP-Link which replaced an old Asus router that wasn’t cutting it anymore. Anyways, it has the ability to create a separate “IoT Network” for connected appliances/devices.

But it isn’t a separate network. It’s just another SSID with potentially weaker security. Devices can still access both the internet and your local machines. It is totally useless security theater.

Oh, and if I want to isolate any of my “smart” devices from the wider internet while still letting things on the LAN connect to them? I can’t! There is literally no way to do this within the router, except via a really hacky workaround where I add a device as one of my “children” and then use parental controls to restrict Internet usage to one minute per day. (Zero minutes per day is not allowed.)

Not that it matters, because my smart TV locked up if on a network but not on the internet. So I lobotomized it via factory reset. As a dumb TV it works great.

#iot #enshittification #oldManYellsAtCloud

Show threaddraeath
@gregly weird. On my tplink, the iot devices are isolated, they can't talk to anything except each other and the Internet.
Feb 28 at 2:19pmWeb
Show threadGreglyFeb 28

@draeath Perhaps that has changed since the introduction of the feature, then. But it’s beside the point I was actually making, which is that what I’d truly like to see is a separate network for LAN devices that are _not_ allowed to connect to the internet, or at least have their access tightly controlled. But even if routing is used to do that, most devices will just break because they expect always-on connectivity so they can call home, send surveillance data, receive new ads to blare at us, and so on.

I wanted an INTRANET of things. Instead we got… this.