Archer C7 V4 vs V5 (and older)

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Archer C7 V4 vs V5 (and older)

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Archer C7 V4 vs V5 (and older)
Archer C7 V4 vs V5 (and older)
2018-03-08 17:42:16
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Can someone tell me what they changed in Archer C7 hardware version 5 versus 4 or older models?

Is there any place that I can find the hardware version change-log?

Thank you
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Re:Archer C7 V4 vs V5 (and older)
2018-03-09 15:02:28
I contacted TP-LINK support before, they said there is no big difference between V4 and V5.
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Re:Archer C7 V4 vs V5 (and older)
2018-03-09 15:19:55
Thank you, I will buy this router and I found only V4 in the market.
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Re:Archer C7 V4 vs V5 (and older)
2018-03-09 23:11:42
From wikidevi , I don't see any difference !
The only difference seems into the firmware...

Changing the versions for almost nothing is a totally stupid marketing strategy.
Further more, it's difficult to buy a TP-Link product because these versions number are rarely displayed by the reseller (amazon, etc.)...
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Re:Archer C7 V4 vs V5 (and older)
2018-09-14 23:33:54
I can tell you that V4 has a big and unresolved ( and also confirmed) problem with NAT boost. If from any reason the PPPoE connections drops, the entire NAT crash and the router barely function until a restart. This not happen with hardware NAT disabled. They confirmed and until now didnt find any solution for this problem. The problem is present only on V4...
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Re:Archer C7 V4 vs V5 (and older)
2020-04-08 09:21:31

@AntonyT 

I know this is old but for anyone looking for this info: Archer C7 has dropped 1 USB port (V4 had two, V5 has one). 

I guess it doesn't really matter - it's one unusable USB port vs previously 2 unusable ports. 

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