Archer AX1800 v5.6
Slowing down reasonably evidenced
updates are coming less often than this product's own history
390 days since the last release against a median gap of 137 (2.8x)
- Last firmware
- 5 September 2025 (1 year ago)
- Releases seen
- 3
- Update rhythm
- about every 5 months
- Support observed
- ≥9 months
- Vendor's promise
- no support period we can evaluate
- Patch latency
- not measurable — its changelogs name no CVE ids
Which one do I have?
TP-Link ships this model in more than one hardware revision, and they do not share firmware. The revision is printed on the label on the underside, usually after the model — Ver 1.0, V4.6. Getting it wrong is the easiest way to read the wrong answer here.
- Archer AX1800 v1.2 Gone quiet 1 releases
- Archer AX1800 v1.2 (US) Gone quiet 6 releases
- Archer AX1800 v2.6 (US) Gone quiet 3 releases
- Archer AX1800 v3.6 (US) Gone quiet 6 releases
- Archer AX1800 v4.6 (USW) Slowing down 5 releases
Firmware history
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Archer AX1800(USW)_V5.60_1.1.2 Build 20250814 5 September 2025
Release notes — disclosure 0.25
New Features/Enhancements: Added support for VPN kill switch feature. Bug Fixes: Enhanced system stability and security.
Archived page, fetched 29 September 2026
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Archer AX1800(USW)_V5.6_1.0.2 Build 20250224 6 May 2025
Release notes — disclosure 0.54
Modifications: 1. Enhanced the stability of the device. 2. Enhanced the safety of the device. 3. Fixed some UI bugs. 4. Fixed the issue of not being able to successfully connect to the L2TP/IPSec VPN server under certain circumstances 5. Fixed the issue of not being able to disconnect the ongoing application after the Sleeptime/Bedtime is reached.
Archived page, fetched 29 September 2026
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Archer AX1800(USW)_V5.6_1.0.1 Build 20241108 5 December 2024
Release notes — disclosure 0.30
First firmware released.
Archived page, fetched 29 September 2026
Evidence
One archived page sits behind this record, the earliest read on 1 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 Archer AX1800
Judged by lifecycle-1 on 30 September 2026.
How these verdicts are computed.