Archer C2 v1
Gone quiet thin evidence
no firmware for long enough to stand out against its own record
3501 days of silence, past the 730-day floor that applies where there is no cadence to compare against
- Last firmware
- 28 February 2017 (10 years ago)
- Releases seen
- 2
- Update rhythm
- too few releases to model
- 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 C2 v1 Gone quiet 2 releases
- Archer C2 v3 Not enough evidence 0 releases
- Archer C2 v5 (US) Gone quiet 1 releases
Firmware history
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Archer C2(US)_V1_170228 28 February 2017
Release notes — disclosure 0.56
Modifications and Bug Fixes: New Features/Enhancement: Optimized the security mechanism. Bug fixed: 1. Fixed the bug that some IPv6 websites can't be accessed in some special scenarios. 2. Fixed the bug that the device would be unable to access internet when special IP address and gateway are offered by ISP.
Archived page, fetched 29 September 2026
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Archer C2(US)_V1_160606 6 June 2016
Release notes — disclosure 0.61
Modifications and Bug Fixes: New Features/Enhancement： 1. Added the function to filter the https website. 2. Improved the 2.4GHz wireless capability. 3. Enhanced the security mechanism. 4. Optimized the performance of IPv6 connection. Bug Fixed： 1. Fixed the bug that the the delay is higher than normal when trying to Ping the LAN IP of the device. 2. Fixed the bug that the media server would display but fail to use the sharing files even you've already deleted the last folder. 3. Fixed the bug that some repeaters may fail to renew IP address normally with it. 4. Fixed the bug that PPPoE connection may fail to be connected in some special scenario.
Archived page, fetched 29 September 2026
Evidence
2 archived pages sit behind this record, the earliest read on 1 August 2026. Everything above was read from them, and each is kept byte for byte so it can be checked after the vendor edits the original.
Identifiers: marketing_name Archer C2 · openwrt_id tplink_archer-c2-v1
Judged by lifecycle-1 on 30 September 2026.
How these verdicts are computed.