Device Support-Lifespan Observatory

What vendors do, not what they announce.

TP-Link

Archer C80 v1

Gone quiet thin evidence

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

2181 days of silence, past the 730-day floor that applies where there is no cadence to compare against

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Last firmware
10 October 2020 (6 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.

Firmware history

  1. Archer C80(US)_V1 200907 10 October 2020

    Release notes — disclosure 0.54
    New Features/Enhancement: 1. Add the support for TCP-DNS proxy; 2. Enhance equipment safety. Bug fixed: 1. Fixed the bug the exception in the special hostname login TP-Link page; 2. Fixed the bug a large number of wireless group broadcasts affect wireless stability; 3. Fixed the bug the device anomaly caused by cloud upgrade failure.

Evidence

One archived page sits behind this record, the earliest read on 25 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 C80

Judged by lifecycle-1 on 30 September 2026. How these verdicts are computed.

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