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Hi @TotoDaDog 

Thanks for posting in our business forum.

TotoDaDog wrote

  @Clive_A 

 

Hello,

I also would ask to for you guys provide DS-Lite support on ER 706W.

 

AFAIK DS-Lite is a software based addition, so no hardware should be so "obsolete" to not support it.

Even thought ER706W was released last year, DS-Lite has been used by our internet provider for at least three years.

 

On another router that we used (consumer-grade MR70X v1) it was also impossible to connect to a DS-Lite network, but we used openwrt to bypass the firmware limitation (as the support told us that this function will not be supported, even in the future),

but, at the moment, we would like a solution that would have native support for the ER706W router.

 

We can set another unix machine to do the job for the router, but we bought the router to handle ALL the network related stuff,

and as much as I like to reverse engineer tp-link stuff and implement the company's needs (no, I don't, in case it wasn't obvious),

I'd rather have you guys work it out for all your clients :) . 

MR? Is that Mercury?

Huh.. I am afraid that is a home product. I don't think I can use that as market research data in the request report I record.

Oh, and it does NOT support it. I don't see the point of you pointing this model out... I would expect to know if vendors like Mikrotik, Cisco, Huawei, or Meraki. If they support DS-Lite.

TBH, a lot of requests for the home environment are not considered or even if it is considered as a feature overlapped in the business reign is not placed in high priority if it is not target the business solely.

Updated:

Good for this one. It is ETA to be avail on V5.15.X. Just got news from the dev.

I think I reported this once last year. Glad to know this has been put in the request pool and considered.

Hi @TotoDaDog 

Thanks for posting in our business forum.

TotoDaDog wrote

The thing I was pointing out with the MR was the fact that the firmware did NOT support DS-Lite while using another UNSUPPORTED FIRMWARE supported DS-Lite.

 

The pointing was: "It's a software addition, come on guys, you can do it !" :))

 

(As a software dev with experience related to robotics, it sometimes seems like devices are often software-limited and not updated on purpose, this is why we switched the TP-Link Business grade router ER706, so we don't have to go towards risky open-source implementations to achieve our goal)

 

Also thank you for the fast reply, we are eagerly waiting for updates regarding the implementation !

Yes. I know. So I added some lines about it and corrected it.

But you are a dev as well, and you should know what's the high priority and low. You cannot add everything from your PM or market feedback to the device. Functions are merging every day and you cannot add all of them to the product. And if you say you'd add all of the functions, you still have an order and a roadmap to do it. Many other aspects should be considered instead of priority and schedule. From the software to hardware, a lot.

You should feel the same when a customer from yours says "I want this feature NOW" but, well, it is not listed as a high priority in your to-do box. And some may even be not considered suitable for the product after your evaluation.

Same thing for us. So, it takes time. It is not on purpose but it is not high-priority to the dev's eyes as something else is more urgent than this one.