After recovering the device to openwrt, I was able to restore the proprietary software though the openwrt restore option, by removing the headers from the proprietary software using this tool,...

Now the interesting twist is - I was able to restore the OpenWRT "factory image" through the ax23's recovery subsystem, but doing the same with any of the tp-link official images bricks the device....

@Joseph-TP I don't think I asked about your warranty policy. I asked the community to specifications around the otherwise very clever idea of a separate recovery system. It is odd I was able to...

After having tried openwrt and found it could only support up to about half of my gigabit speed, I wanted to reflash the factory firmware. After many attempts, it eventually bricked, and now shows...

Ok, so I suppose the answer is, "not possible". C5 doesn't support "EasyMesh" and my C6 is a V3 hardware (although only 4 months old). I'm not going to replace all my routers for this minor...

I have an Archer C5 configured in bridge mode, connecting to my fiber modem. From the C5 I run a LAN cable to the Archer C6 which is setup in Access Point mode. For now both are set up in "smart"...