Device Support-Lifespan Observatory

What vendors do, not what they announce.

ASUS

4G-AC86U Modem

Gone quiet reasonably evidenced

no firmware for long enough to stand out against its own record

1237 days since the last release against a median gap of 362 (3.4x)

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Last firmware
11 May 2023 (3 years ago)
Releases seen
3
Update rhythm
about every 12 months
Support observed
≥2 years
Vendor's promise
no support period we can evaluate
Patch latency
not measurable — its changelogs name no CVE ids

Firmware history

  1. A21_02_001 11 May 2023

    Release notes — disclosure 0.35
    Fixed disconnection issue from incomplete packet error of base station side on several ISP and made 4G-AC86U more resilient.Please unzip the file and refer to the section 4.7.3 Firmware upgrade in the user manual to upgrade the modem firmware.
  2. A18 23 May 2022

    Release notes — disclosure 0.33
    Please unzip the file and refer to the section 4.7.3 Firmware ugprade in the user manual to upgrade the modem firmware.
  3. A21-004 17 May 2021

    Release notes — disclosure 0.35
    - Fixed AT command condifure errors - Support Carry Aggregation information - Fixed SMS message errors - Fixed SPN alphabet errorsPlease unzip the file and refer to the section 4.7.3 Firmware ugprade in the user manual to upgrade the modem firmware.

Evidence

One archived page sits behind this record, the earliest read on 2 August 2026. Everything above was read from it, and each is kept byte for byte so it can be checked after the vendor edits the original.

Identifiers: marketing_name 4G-AC86U Modem

Judged by lifecycle-1 on 29 September 2026. How these verdicts are computed.

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