cyril wrote I bought a TL-WA855RE v1 in Nov. 2017 but the firmware upgrade only cover V2 and V3 :-/ TP-Link doesn’t publish End of Life dates for their products. (Otherwise you wouldn’t keep buying...

TP-Link has issued new firmware releases that addresses this bug including for the TL-WA855RE. (Update may not be available in all countries.)

If the repeater can detect another DHCP server, then it won’t start up it’s own DHCP server. Detection is one by requesting a DHCP lease for itself. However, the DHCP client used in TP-Link products...

I investigated this issue and wrote up my findings in detail for anyone who is interested. Current versions of TP-Link repeater firmware use 715,4 MB per month just to show us “Internet Status:...