Device Support-Lifespan Observatory

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TP-Link

TL-WA801ND v1

Gone quiet well evidenced

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

5009 days since the last release against a median gap of 308 (16.3x)

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Last firmware
11 January 2013 (14 years ago)
Releases seen
6
Update rhythm
about every 10 months
Support observed
≥3 years
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. TL-WA801ND_V1_130131_beta 11 January 2013

    Release notes — disclosure 0.31 
    Modifications and Bug Fixes: Fixed the wireless instability and hang issue

    Archived page, fetched 29 September 2026

  2. TL-WA801ND_V1_120309 9 March 2012

    Release notes — disclosure 0.36 
    Modifications and Bug Fixes: Fixed the bug that under Multi-ssid mode VLAN can't be enabled if all four SSIDs are not be enable at the same time.Improved the performance when playing multicast stream.Fixed the bug that the device has a possibility to shut down when updating the firmware.

    Archived page, fetched 29 September 2026

  3. TL-WA801ND_V1_110214 14 February 2011

    Release notes — disclosure 0.41 
    Modifications and Bug Fixes: Fix a bug that the backup file can change the MAC address;Make the APC has the same MAC address with AP in Repeater mode;Fix a bug that the Windows 7 system may ask for username and password if AP is in Repeater mode with WEP security;Fix a bug that if a wireless PC connect 802.1x radius server through it, it will cut the connection in short time;Fixed a bug in Multi-SSID mode that the AP cannot forward the packets which are bigger than 1514 bytes.

    Archived page, fetched 29 September 2026

  4. TL-WA801ND_V1_100408 8 April 2010

    Release notes — disclosure 0.34 
    Modifications and Bug Fixes: Improve the throughput when work at bridge mode.Fix a bug that the AP can´t connect to a remote AP which doesn´t broadcast SSID when work at client mode.

    Archived page, fetched 29 September 2026

  5. TL-WA801ND_V1_100312 12 March 2010

    Release notes — disclosure 0.37 
    Modifications and Bug Fixes: Fix a bug that when working at Multi SSID mode and the VLAN function is enabled, the AP can´t be logged on.Fix a bug that if DHCP function is enabled, but there is no DHCP server connected to the LAN port, the AP can´t be logged on.Improve the wireless throughput when working at Repeater mode.

    Archived page, fetched 29 September 2026

  6. TL-WA801ND_V1_091231 31 December 2009

    Release notes — disclosure 0.33 
    Modifications and Bug Fixes: Fix a problem that if the MAC address of the AP is not 00-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX the WDS function will not work.

    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 TL-WA801ND

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

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