TP-Link and non stock firmware

[BarkingGhostar]

I remember when the Feds pushed to prevent manufacturers from allowing third party firmware (wrt, Tomato, etc.) from being installed on their consumer routers and TP-Link happily complied. Then the Feds reversed their position, but TP-Link? I recently bought a TP-Link AC1200 for $69 and was wondering if there were alternatives to the stock firmware.

I went out to what I believed was the DD-WRT/OpenWRT and Tomato sites, but something involving the Broadcom licensing prevented porting of the custom offerings to the unit. As always, my ignorance runs rampant here.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Looks like ddwrt supports at least hw rev 1.0

http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Supported_Devices#TP-Link

I didn't see any tp link on shibby tomato router list

Hope this helps

 

[BarkingGhostar]

OK, I was wrong. The model I bought uses Qualcomm and not Broadcom

 

[ch33zw1z]

No worries, sanity check is standard operating procedure in IT

 

[rsachoc]

It's supported by The Lede Project, which is a spin-off of Openwrt

https://lede-project.org/toh/start?dataflt[Brand*~]=tp-