Device Support-Lifespan Observatory

What vendors do, not what they announce.

Router: how long support actually lasted

Ranked by the firmware history we hold, longest first. Every span is measured between the first and last firmware we saw, so each is a lower bound — no vendor here publishes a launch date, and support that began before the first release we know of is support we cannot count.

Only products whose support has demonstrably ended appear. A device still receiving firmware has a span that is still growing, and ranking it against finished ones would put the best-supported hardware at the bottom for still being supported.

50 ranked

  1. ≥12 years ASUS RT-N12 D1 End of support 11 releases · well evidenced
  2. ≥8 years ASUS RT-AC86U End of support 29 releases · well evidenced
  3. ≥8 years ASUS RT-AC66U-B1 End of support 8 releases · well evidenced
  4. ≥8 years ASUS RT-AC1900P End of support 36 releases · well evidenced
  5. ≥8 years ASUS RT-AC68U End of support 37 releases · well evidenced
  6. ≥7 years TP-Link Archer C5400X v1 End of support 9 releases · well evidenced
  7. ≥7 years TP-Link Archer C3150 v2 Gone quiet 8 releases · reasonably evidenced
  8. ≥7 years TP-Link Archer C5400 v2 Gone quiet 7 releases · well evidenced
  9. ≥7 years ASUS RT-AC88U End of support 23 releases · well evidenced
  10. ≥7 years ASUS RT-AC3100 End of support 20 releases · well evidenced
  11. ≥7 years TP-Link Archer AX6000 v1 Gone quiet 18 releases · reasonably evidenced
  12. ≥7 years ASUS RT-AC66U B1 Gone quiet 25 releases · well evidenced
  13. ≥6 years TP-Link Archer C4000 v3 Gone quiet 7 releases · reasonably evidenced
  14. ≥6 years TP-Link Archer AX50 v1 Gone quiet 16 releases · reasonably evidenced
  15. ≥6 years TP-Link Archer C1200 v1 Gone quiet 7 releases · reasonably evidenced
  16. ≥6 years TP-Link Archer AX11000 v1 Gone quiet 14 releases · reasonably evidenced
  17. ≥6 years TP-Link Archer C9 v3 Gone quiet 4 releases · reasonably evidenced
  18. ≥6 years TP-Link Archer C8 v3 Gone quiet 5 releases · well evidenced
  19. ≥6 years TP-Link Archer AX10 v1 Gone quiet 17 releases · reasonably evidenced
  20. ≥6 years TP-Link Archer AX1500 v1 Gone quiet 16 releases · well evidenced
  21. ≥6 years ASUS RT-AX89X End of support 15 releases · well evidenced
  22. ≥6 years TP-Link Archer C1900 v2 Gone quiet 2 releases · thin evidence
  23. ≥6 years TP-Link Archer C1200 v2 Gone quiet 5 releases · reasonably evidenced
  24. ≥6 years TP-Link Archer C9 v4 Gone quiet 3 releases · reasonably evidenced
  25. ≥5 years TP-Link Archer AX1500 v1.2 Gone quiet 14 releases · well evidenced
  26. ≥5 years TP-Link Archer C8 v4 Gone quiet 2 releases · thin evidence
  27. ≥5 years TP-Link Archer AX10 v1.2 Gone quiet 16 releases · well evidenced
  28. ≥5 years TP-Link Archer C9 v5 Gone quiet 5 releases · reasonably evidenced
  29. ≥5 years TP-Link Archer C80 v1 Gone quiet 16 releases · well evidenced
  30. ≥5 years TP-Link Archer C1200 v3 Gone quiet 7 releases · reasonably evidenced
  31. ≥5 years TP-Link Archer A8 v1 Gone quiet 15 releases · well evidenced
  32. ≥5 years TP-Link Archer C59 v4 Gone quiet 15 releases · well evidenced
  33. ≥5 years TP-Link Archer AX55 v1 Gone quiet 20 releases · well evidenced
  34. ≥4 years TP-Link Archer AX6000 v2 Gone quiet 8 releases · reasonably evidenced
  35. ≥4 years TP-Link Archer C2700 v1 Gone quiet 4 releases · reasonably evidenced
  36. ≥4 years ASUS RT-AX86 Series(RT-AX86U/RT-AX86S) Gone quiet 19 releases · well evidenced
  37. ≥4 years TP-Link Archer A10 v2 Gone quiet 3 releases · reasonably evidenced
  38. ≥4 years TP-Link Archer C9 v1 Gone quiet 3 releases · reasonably evidenced
  39. ≥4 years TP-Link Archer AX3000 v1 Gone quiet 6 releases · reasonably evidenced
  40. ≥4 years ASUS RT-AX82U Gone quiet 9 releases · reasonably evidenced
  41. ≥4 years ASUS RT-N12+ B1 End of support 8 releases · well evidenced
  42. ≥4 years TP-Link Archer A8 v1.8 Gone quiet 9 releases · reasonably evidenced
  43. ≥4 years TP-Link Archer C59 v4.8 Gone quiet 11 releases · well evidenced
  44. ≥4 years ASUS RT-AC1500G PLUS End of support 3 releases · well evidenced
  45. ≥4 years ASUS RT-AC1500UHP Gone quiet 6 releases · reasonably evidenced
  46. ≥4 years ASUS RT-AC57U v2 End of support 6 releases · well evidenced
  47. ≥4 years ASUS RT-AC58U v2 End of support 6 releases · well evidenced
  48. ≥4 years ASUS RT-AC59U End of support 6 releases · well evidenced
  49. ≥4 years ASUS RT-N12E C1 End of support 5 releases · well evidenced
  50. ≥4 years ASUS RT-N12VP B1 End of support 5 releases · well evidenced

What this ranking leaves out

Of 377 products in this category, 139 could be ranked.

How these figures are computed.