TL-WA855RE v3
Gone quiet thin evidence
no firmware for long enough to stand out against its own record
3105 days of silence, past the 730-day floor that applies where there is no cadence to compare against
- Last firmware
- 30 March 2018 (9 years ago)
- Releases seen
- 2
- Update rhythm
- too few releases to model
- Support observed
- ≥3 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-WA855RE v1 (US) Gone quiet 4 releases
- TL-WA855RE v2 (US) Gone quiet 2 releases
- TL-WA855RE v4 (US) Gone quiet 5 releases
- TL-WA855RE v5 (US) Gone quiet 6 releases
- TL-WA855RE v5.8 (US) Not enough evidence 1 releases
Firmware history
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TL-WA855RE(US)_V3_180314 30 March 2018
Release notes — disclosure 0.53
Modifications and Bug Fixes 1. Fixed the compatibility issue with some old versions of MacBook. 2. Fixed the compatibility issue with some models of Airties and TIM modem router. 3. Removed the option to disable the extended 2.4G wireless signal. 4. Fixed some page errors under specific language mode.
Archived page, fetched 29 September 2026
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TL-WA855RE(US)_V3_171219 22 December 2017
Release notes — disclosure 0.32
Modifications and Bug Fixes: New Features/Enhancements: Improved Online detection method and reduced unnecessary data traffic.
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-WA855RE
Judged by lifecycle-1 on 29 September 2026.
How these verdicts are computed.