TL-WA801ND v5
Gone quiet thin evidence
no firmware for long enough to stand out against its own record
3312 days of silence, past the 730-day floor that applies where there is no cadence to compare against
- Last firmware
- 5 September 2017 (9 years ago)
- Releases seen
- 2
- Update rhythm
- too few releases to model
- Support observed
- ≥7 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.
- TL-WA801ND v1 Gone quiet 6 releases
- TL-WA801ND v2 Gone quiet 4 releases
- TL-WA801ND v3 Gone quiet 2 releases
- TL-WA801ND v3 (US) Gone quiet 1 releases
Firmware history
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TL-WA801ND(US)_V5_170905 5 September 2017
Release notes — disclosure 0.31
Modifications and Bug Fixes: Enhancement: Improved device stability in low-temperature environment.
Archived page, fetched 29 September 2026
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TL-WA801ND(US)_V5_170206 6 February 2017
Release notes — disclosure 0.06
Modifications and Bug Fixes: First firmware released.
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 TL-WA801ND · openwrt_id tplink_tl-wa801nd-v5
Judged by lifecycle-1 on 30 September 2026.
How these verdicts are computed.