@johnsnow88 

I don't think they have an official "mission statement" to provide updates for X amount of years post sales, but it looks to be about ~2 years.

you mentioned the 605v1, which was released around November 2020, and announced EOL a few months ago.

for a $59 device i don't think that this is entirely unfair, but the biggest issue is that v1 was still sold after v2 was announced (February of 2022)

this guy on Amazon apparently got a V1 in June 2022.. 

  @johnsnow88 

it depend when you buy the devices, is it at the end of a cycle it may be EOL before you receive the product.
it also applies to unifi, I sold many USG-3P and USG-4-PRO to a chain store, they became EOL almost immediately. Luckily it was decided that they should replace all routers with Sonicwall so that we never had any questions from customers about that. :-)

ER605v2 and ER7206v1 are old routers that you should not buy, ER707-M2, ER706W, are newer models and should have support for a while

  @MR.S 

Well how do you know a product is near EOL?

I haven't seen any official statements when a product is EOL or announcement of new one being released, i can guess based on the first firmware release.

@NinjaMonkey

yeah i can still buy the 605 on amazon, no idea what hardware version it is. Thanks for the 2 year mark at least that will help to see if i want to buy now or wait for new hardware.

  @johnsnow88 

you don't know until it is. ER605v1 became EOL a few months ago. since. it came as a surprise to a lot of people, it was found from a well-hidden document on the TP-Link web, it was a list of EOL Products.
but now the ER605v2 and ER7206v1 are the oldest routers, the problem is that they are still sold, so if you e.g. want an ER7206v2 you can risk getting a v1 router, to be sure I'd rather buy a new model.
TP-Link products are a mess with version numbers on the same product and you never know what you will get.
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@NinjaMonkey

 

yeah i can still buy the 605 on amazon, no idea what hardware version it is. Thanks for the 2 year mark at least that will help to see if i want to buy now or wait for new hardware.

  @johnsnow88 

Yeah the one on Amazon is a v2.6, which is still a v2 and was announced 688 days ago ( https://community.tp-link.com/en/business/forum/topic/527102 )

honestly I would wait for v3, or whatever new model will replace it.

  @NinjaMonkey 

I'm mostly intrested in the 707 series do to the 2.5GB WAN ports

  @Clive_A 

That disappointing that we don't get official support time frame, the fact tplink sold v1 of the 605 and quickly discontinued it do to hardware limitations is bad business. Anyone that bought that model got screwed very much like I got screwed by the v1 EAPs

  @johnsnow88 

The fact that products become EOL is not so unusual, it applies to all suppliers, nothing lasts forever. but I don't quite understand that the ER605v1 is EOL due to poor performance at the same time as they come with an ER605W with extremely poor performance.. if you compare these, it is an ER605v1 with wifi.

in fact, the performance is worse on ER605W than the ER605v1