Device Support-Lifespan Observatory

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TP-Link

TL-WA850RE v5

Gone quiet thin evidence

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

2875 days of silence, past the 730-day floor that applies where there is no cadence to compare against

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Last firmware
15 November 2018 (8 years ago)
Releases seen
2
Update rhythm
too few releases to model
Support observed
≥8 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.

Firmware history

  1. TL-WA850RE(US)_V5_181107 15 November 2018

    Release notes — disclosure 0.46
    Modifications and Bug Fixes 1. Optimized the way to access the extender's web management page via tplinkrepeater.net or www.tplinkrepeater.net 2. Improved the wireless connection stability with back-end client. 3. Improved the wireless connection stability with front-end AP. 4. Improved the system stability. 5. Fixed the connection compatibility issue with a few specific routers.
  2. TL-WA850RE(US)_V5_180228 30 March 2018

    Release notes — disclosure 0.32
    Modifications and Bug Fixes Fixed the compatibility issue with some old versions of MacBook.

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-WA850RE

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

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