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<blockquote data-quote="Tiamati" data-source="post: 889021" data-attributes="member: 56785">Hello [USER=55987]@HarborFront[/USER] . I was doing some research about routers to solve some problems and just found your post. Can you help me pls?I currently have 2 problems. I just received a new D-LINK EXO router from D-LINK customer service. I believe this router has the mentioned AI protection you pointed in item &quot;1)&quot;. I would like to know more about but found almost no information. What does it do? How it protects the network? I&#039;m asking cause i found some problems enabling it. For example, when McAfee protection (D-Link defend) is enabled,:a) My android phone connects to the network normally but takes longer to access the internet. That makes adnroid pop up a message saying that the network can&#039;t connect to the internet. But it connects a few secs later. b) My SmartTV can&#039;t connect to &quot;find&quot; its server. So i can&#039;t access the &quot;window&quot; that allows access to other apps, like netflix. c) After turning on my PC/laptops, the network takes much longer to provide an internet connection. So i&#039;m connected to the network but i can&#039;t access any website. It works normally after some time. It looks like the android problem.&nbsp; Furthermore, i&#039;m running a problem isolating my SmartTV from my home network through an ethernet connection. I made a thread about it (but admin didn&#039;t accepted it yet). I&#039;m posting the thread message bellow: [SPOILER=&quot;[HELP] IOT vs guest Wi-Fi vs Ethernet: security concerns&quot;]Hello! First of all, ty for your help. Let me explain my problem.I&#039;m currently using an old Philips smartTV, which the last update is from 2014. So I believe it probably has a lot of vulnerabilities issues.According to some articles (<a href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/fbi-recommends-that-you-keep-your-iot-devices-on-a-separate-network/" target="_blank">here </a>and <a href="https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/guest-wifi/23843/" target="_blank">here</a>), all IOT should be connected to guest wifi, as they isolate those things from your home network. That&#039;s what I do. However, my old tv also can&#039;t connect to 5Ghz wi-fi what causes some performance problems. So, I considered changing it to an ethernet connection as I could easily connect the SmartTV to an ethernet cable.However, IDK if I could isolate the TV from my network in the same way I do with the guest wifi. Do you have any idea?Btw, my d-link router (EXO model) has a so-called Triple-Play option into VLAN section. Idk what exactly is that, but I wonder if it could help. (I&#039;m posting a print of the function in case you wanna help me with that too)[SPOILER=&quot;Triple-Play print&quot;][ATTACH=full]242628[/ATTACH][/SPOILER][/SPOILER]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tiamati, post: 889021, member: 56785"] Hello [USER=55987]@HarborFront[/USER] . I was doing some research about routers to solve some problems and just found your post. Can you help me pls? I currently have 2 problems. I just received a new D-LINK EXO router from D-LINK customer service. I believe this router has the mentioned AI protection you pointed in item "1)". I would like to know more about but found almost no information. What does it do? How it protects the network? I'm asking cause i found some problems enabling it. For example, when McAfee protection (D-Link defend) is enabled,: a) My android phone connects to the network normally but takes longer to access the internet. That makes adnroid pop up a message saying that the network can't connect to the internet. But it connects a few secs later. b) My SmartTV can't connect to "find" its server. So i can't access the "window" that allows access to other apps, like netflix. c) After turning on my PC/laptops, the network takes much longer to provide an internet connection. So i'm connected to the network but i can't access any website. It works normally after some time. It looks like the android problem. Furthermore, i'm running a problem isolating my SmartTV from my home network through an ethernet connection. I made a thread about it (but admin didn't accepted it yet). I'm posting the thread message bellow: [SPOILER="[HELP] IOT vs guest Wi-Fi vs Ethernet: security concerns"]Hello! First of all, ty for your help. Let me explain my problem. I'm currently using an old Philips smartTV, which the last update is from 2014. So I believe it probably has a lot of vulnerabilities issues. According to some articles ([URL='https://www.zdnet.com/article/fbi-recommends-that-you-keep-your-iot-devices-on-a-separate-network/']here [/URL]and [URL='https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/guest-wifi/23843/']here[/URL]), all IOT should be connected to guest wifi, as they isolate those things from your home network. That's what I do. However, my old tv also can't connect to 5Ghz wi-fi what causes some performance problems. So, I considered changing it to an ethernet connection as I could easily connect the SmartTV to an ethernet cable. However, IDK if I could isolate the TV from my network in the same way I do with the guest wifi. Do you have any idea? Btw, my d-link router (EXO model) has a so-called Triple-Play option into VLAN section. Idk what exactly is that, but I wonder if it could help. (I'm posting a print of the function in case you wanna help me with that too) [SPOILER="Triple-Play print"] [ATTACH type="full" alt="1591938119763.png"]242628[/ATTACH][/SPOILER][/SPOILER] [/QUOTE]

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