TL-WA901ND v2
Gone quiet reasonably evidenced
no firmware for long enough to stand out against its own record
5009 days since the last release against a median gap of 322 (15.6x)
- Last firmware
- 11 January 2013 (14 years ago)
- Releases seen
- 4
- Update rhythm
- about every 11 months
- Support observed
- ≥2 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.
- TL-WA901ND v1 Gone quiet 4 releases
- TL-WA901ND v3 Gone quiet 5 releases
- TL-WA901ND v4 (US) Gone quiet 1 releases
- TL-WA901ND v5 (US) Gone quiet 1 releases
Firmware history
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TL-WA901ND_V2_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
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TL-WA901ND_V2_120224 24 February 2012
Release notes — disclosure 0.35
Modifications and Bug Fixes: Fixed the bug that it can't forward multicast packets when it works in AP Client/Universal Repeater mode;Fixed the bug that only when 4 SSID are used can VLAN function take effort;Added more IGMP group to support more applications.
Archived page, fetched 29 September 2026
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TL-WA901ND_V2_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
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TL-WA901ND_V2_100723 23 July 2010
Release notes — disclosure 0.32
Modifications and Bug Fixes: For V2 only, cannot be used on V1
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-WA901ND
Judged by lifecycle-1 on 29 September 2026.
How these verdicts are computed.