Official Release Deco Firmware Updates Adding Signal Selection and VPN for Multiple Models
Deco 1.6.0/1.7.0/1.1.0/1.2.0 Firmware Update Added to Select Models!
Over the last few weeks, A New Batch of the Latest Firmware for Deco has been released! This update brings many of the features most requested by the community to reality, including Static Routing, IoT Network, Signal Preference, VPN Server/Client, etc.
Please refer to the Firmware release note for a List of Features Added to Your Model!
| WiFi 5 |
Note: VPN is not supported. |
| Wi-Fi 6 |
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| Wi-Fi 6E | |
| Wi-Fi 7 |
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Note:
1. Please make sure your Deco APP is up-to-date.
2. Please be aware that specific features may vary between hardware versions.
3. Some features are not supported under Access Point Mode.
4. If there are other Deco models in the Mesh network, some features would no longer show up, such as Signal Source and Connection Preference; while others only need the support on the main Deco, like VPN, Static Route, MTU, and smart DHCP.
5. As a reminder, the Technical support team does not have any information regarding what models the firmware is being developed for and when we could potentially see a particular release. Please refrain from asking "When Will 'X' Model Receive the Feature?"
Frequently Asked Questions:
1. Why can't I detect the above firmware on the Deco APP?
In the first stage of firmware release, the new firmware would be pushed to a part of users first, then gradually within the next few weeks, if everything goes on well, it will be pushed to all users. During this gap, it is normal if you can not detect the latest firmware. It is suggested to wait for a while or manually update the firmware via web UI per Update the Firmware of Deco.
2. If I have V1.6, which firmware should I use？
Common rules for firmware upgrade: Normally Vx.0=Vx.6/Vx.8 (eg:V1.0=V1.6/V1.8); Vx.x0=Vx.x6/Vx.x8 (eg:V1.20=V1.26/V1.28).
x.6 and x.8 are mainly used to distinguish the place of production.
3. How to downgrade the firmware if I run into any issues?
The newly released firmware feedback is always important and it would be highly appreciated if your could share here what happened to Deco after updating the firmware. We would reply to the post at the earliest time.
In case you have to downgrade the firmware immediately, the cross-platform firmware downgrade, like from 1.2.0 to 1.1.0 needs to be performed via firmware recovery. But if you just want to downgrade from 1.2.6 to 1.2.5 or 1.2.2, it could be done via web UI directly.
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@Zoddy I have even more bad news for you. Deco X20-4G has been quietly listed as "end of life" by TP-Link. It's amazing how they con customers into buying only to kill of support within a short period of time.
I have the same usage scenario as you as I rely on my Deco X50-4G as the main unit. Regret buying because it looks like we won't be getting fair and equal features that units like X50 and the rest have, that we are supposed to get.
Lesson to be learned here? Don't support TP-Link. Stop buying their products as they don't provide fair firmware updates and kill of their models too soon. Never again.
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@Oakmeister Not likely to happen. TP-Link already killed off the X20-4G by listing it as "end of life" without even rolling out the updates that it's supposed to get.
Lesson to be learned here? Don't buy TP-Link and support such behaviour. I wholly regret getting into the Deco ecosystem (I own X50-4G, X50 and M9 Plus).
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@arktiknova same for me. I regret having bought 4 x M4. I Will soon change them with other brand, I have grown tired of waiting the famous update
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@arktiknova That's interesting thanks for the heads up. You've saved me from wasting further money on the 4G.
Out of interest whats the URL to that page. The UK website doesn't show this as end of life. I wonder if there are any others coming to EOL.
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@David-TP The XE75 Pro V2 has no option to download past/present/beta firmwares, but the V1 does. Is there a reason for this? I've noticed that 'firmware' has been replaced by 'GPL code' what is this?
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Hi @BenMitchell,
I noticed this also, but then I went to the general English site (not continent specific) and it has the firmware listed for the XE75 Pro V2 with the EU specification
https://www.tp-link.com/en/support/download/deco-xe75-pro/v2/#Firmware
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@Oakmeister Here's the link for the "END OF LIFE" X20-4G.
https://www.tp-link.com/my/home-networking/deco/deco-x20-4g/
Looking at how fast TP-Link is releasing newer Wifi 7 and 5G models, I expect the existing ones like X50-4G to join the End of Life list soon despite it being very new. Tired of waiting for the features update that we are supposed to be getting but have been denied.
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@BenGinders Thank you, but theres a warning
- Please upgrade firmware from the local TP-Link official website of the purchase location for your TP-Link device, otherwise it will be against the warranty. Please click here to change site if necessary.
Also the firmware there is 1.2.2, not the latest 1.2.3 which is available for the V1
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@arktiknova Im not worrying too much as this stage, waiting for more info from TP-link, Here in France on the tp-link site, the X20-DSL is announced as "coming soon" so there may be life in the not-that-old dog yet. It's also of note that if you look at the models that have got the new firmware update, none of the 4G/5G/DSL variants have been included.
I would be very surprised to see the E4/M4 getting the update as that is the very old entry level model, but apart from that.. Who knows? Would be nice to get some further info from TP-Link
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Hi @BenMitchell,
The EU page (which I shared a link to is also applicable to the UK hardware versions and firmware rules). Regarding the V1.22 and V1.23 there isn't much difference between 2 apart from the V1 (1.23) had some issues where 1 ethernet port kept failing once users upgraded to 1.22, so far this has not been applicable for the V2 so it does not need the fix applied.
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