Archer C8 v1
Gone quiet thin evidence
no firmware for long enough to stand out against its own record
3788 days of silence, past the 730-day floor that applies where there is no cadence to compare against
- Last firmware
- 17 May 2016 (10 years ago)
- Releases seen
- 1
- Update rhythm
- too few releases to model
- Support observed
- —
- 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 C8 v3 (US) Gone quiet 5 releases
- Archer C8 v4 (US) Gone quiet 2 releases
Firmware history
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Archer C8(US)_V1_160517 17 May 2016
Release notes — disclosure 0.54
Modifications and Bug Fixes: New Features/Enhancement: 1. Adopted a new user interface, which is more concise and easier to use; 2. Added the language selection menu in the up right corner; 3. Added the management web UI for smart phones; 4. Added the options for SIP ALG function; 5. Optimized the IPv6 function.
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 C8
Judged by lifecycle-1 on 30 September 2026.
How these verdicts are computed.