3 years old already considered "very old"? Typical TP-Link with their style of business "sell & abandon"


ASUS RT-AC68U is 5 years old and still get firmware updates until now



This post has been edited by sHawTY: Dec 14 2018, 03:18 PM

You get what you pay for bro. 3 years warranty and lifetime technical support
My 9 years old RT-N16 still get firmware updates by ASUS whenever I report bugs to their technical support team

TP-Link you buy today, next month you'll be forgotten ady

This post has been edited by sHawTY: Dec 14 2018, 03:29 PM

I would rather pay more for a brand that provides excellent technical support and frequent firmware updates fixing bugs and closing security hole rather than paying less to a manufacturer that practices "Sell & Abandon" business strategy that leaves their customers using routers that has tons of bugs & living in fear because of security holes that is never patched

Really? Show me the latest firmware update for the TP-Link Archer C5400 v1 for Malaysia

enduser you're too easy to convince. Just compare the firmware updates of RT-AC68U & Archer C9 V1 (for Malaysia)
With ASUS you don't have to worry about region based firmware & hardware revision based firmware whereas TP-Link will immediately stopped producing firmware updates for older revision
What will happen to the Archer C9 V1 Malaysia buyers then? Let them live with the bugs, errors & security hole? Heck, they don't even bother releasing a fix to the WPA2 Security (KRACKs) Vulnerability for Archer C9 V1 Malaysia users

Below is a the proof of what I said:



This post has been edited by sHawTY: Dec 17 2018, 11:08 AM

That's why TP-LINK MY doesn't reply to my post, because they couldn't provide any hard proof that TP-Link doesn't do the "Sell & Abandon" business strategy

Everyone should pressure TP-Link Malaysia to provide better after sales support & stop using those hardware revisions & region based firmware
Just create a global firmware that's compatible with all countries & all hardware revisions

This post has been edited by sHawTY: Dec 27 2018, 03:07 PM

No router is good at RM50
Even RM200 won't get you anywhere

Buying an AX router won't do you any good if your device only supports Wireless AC 2x2

There are 2 ways to get 800Mb/s these days, both of which are not widely available
1. On Wireless AC, both your router and device needs to support Wireless AC 80MHz 3x3 or 4x4
2. On Wireless AX, both your router and device needs to support Wireless AX 80MHz / 160MHz 2x2 or 3x3 or 4x4

Most devices available in the market nowadays even the highest end gaming laptop only supports Wireless AC 2x2
Only desktop PCI-e WiFi adapters supports 3x3 or 4x4

So even if you use a Wireless AX router but your device is only limited to AC 2x2, you will still get below 600Mb/s

This post has been edited by sHawTY: Apr 27 2020, 08:29 PM

Why? Both the router and the VDSL modem doesn't consume a lot of currents anyway

Better not kacau the modem and just replace the router instead

You're not gonna get one
That's TP-Link business strategy. Sell and forget. 1 year or 2 after the product is launched, they wouldn't bother releasing any firmware updates at all

They've been doing that since the beginning. You want firmware updates? Switch to ASUS

You can't. The Deco will automatically send AX protocol to any AX devices
That's the limitation of TP-Link mesh system

Deco app for iOS / iPadOS received dark mode with the latest update