Background: After disabling TP-Link Cloud access by unbinding my account the router would no longer accept the original password, so I had perform a factory reset.

Synopsis: Accessing the router for the first time after a factory reset, a page is displayed with a prompt to “Please create an administrator password to manage your Archer C60.”

Any attempts at picking any password (conforming to the password rules) results in the message, “Login Failure.” with a sad smiley face.

Have turned the router on and off again several times. Very frustrated to have to lose all of my settings (which were arduous to input considering the many bugs with the interface ), furious that my router seems to have, in effect, bricked itself while I'm working from home.