@d0ugmac1 This whole situation is beyond ridiculous.  I could have sworn the Omada hardware was supposed to be a step above the regular consumer grade stuff and yet it's missing some REALLY basic features and is extremely buggy.  I just want my money back at this point.

  @d0ugmac1 If they offered some sort of a trade-in I'd take them up on it but the constant lies and promises of "we'll fix it some day" are just insulting and getting old.

  @unhappycust0mer you're frustrated, we get it. I bought the V1.6 just before the V2 came out. It sucks. But the amount of ire you're expending over a $60 router is a little much, though. It's a well known trope that the computer equipment you buy is obsolete a few weeks after you open the box.

V1 and V2 are vastly different pieces of hardware (I'm surprised they didn't release it as a new model...). V1 was a rebadged TL-R600VPN (the original model number was TL-R605) and everyone with eyes could tell. V1 only has 16MB of flash storage; V2 has 128MB. That may not seem like much, but the newer V2 firmwares are 19+ MB. It takes time to figure out how to trim out whatever is unnecessary. The fact that they are working on a beta firmware and releasing it in a public forum at all should be enough for you. Some manufacturers simply don't care, at least TP-Link is making the effort.

To your point that they are still selling the V1 hardware, no they are not. Retailers are pushing out their old stock; some of them don't understand there's a difference and some of them are not as ethical as others in their marketing. TP-Link is not manufacturing any V1, V1.6, or V2 hardware, they are manufacturing V2.6 units.

Be patient, or start a GoFundMe for the $60 to buy a new one. That's the beauty of SDN: modular upgrades. I'm considering upgrading to the ER7206 (I'm waiting to see if there's a V2 dropping soon), and I'm just grateful that I won't have to redo all the static IP's, failover settings, etc. when I do. Same when Wi-Fi 7 comes out; just plug in the new AP and keep rolling.

  @d0ugmac1 Fair enough. I was fortunate enough to only get one V1. I purchased another for my church, and that ended up being a V2. Another company I work with decided to go with Omada, and I set them up with the ER7206.

I figured the processor changed between versions as well; V1 only gets 41.5 Mbps throughput on IPSec VPN (AES256), while the V2 can get between 171.26 and 248.04 Mbps.

I had seen the ER707-M2 on the international pages, but the US support pages make reference to an ER7206 v2, and there's a separate page for the ER707-M2 v1

There's also an installation guide for the ER7206v2 on the international site that shows a USB port and an external power supply.