Beta Software Deco M4/S4_V2 Support Connection Preference
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This Article applied to
Deco M4_V2_1.5.8
Deco S4_V2_1.5.1
Download Link:
Deco M4_V2 | Deco M4_V2_1.7.0 ( New version updated on 2024.3.7) |
Deco S4_V2 | Deco S4_V2_1.6.1_build_20240328 (updated on 2024.4.19) |
1. Please be sure you have read the Terms and Conditions for TP-Link Beta Firmware before proceeding.
2. For Deco M4_V2, the firmware downgrade(back to the official 1.5.8 version) needs to be implemented via firmware recovery.
3. For Deco S4_V2, it would revert to the official 1.5.1 directly via web UI.
4. How to update the firmware via web UI.
Firmware Modifications:
Deco M4_V2_1.7.0 |
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Deco S4_V2_1.5.1 |
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Please feel free to comment below if you have any issues with these two firmware versions!
Related Articles:
Connection Preference: Customize Your Preferred Signal Source
Understand the Differences Among Deco Firmware Platforms
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Is there any kind of action that we can do as a whole group (users of M4) to force or press tplink to push the public release firmware ?
Say for example mass complaints on the issue to tplink support to atleast ensure they are actively working on the issue ? .. etc ?
As this is getting kinda ridiculous
Regards.
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@Vcaddy yes,you can avoid tp link products,just throw away your existing tp link router and buy an another brand router....
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@Vcaddy Unfortunately, that won't work.
I wonder what complex problems they're facing in the beta firmware that they cannot release the stable version, even after 6 months of announcing it
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It really does smack of the old Archer C7 V1 Broadcom issues. A firmware fix was coming for months and months and months, eventually after more than a year or so of empty firmware promises they agreed to RMA for a V2 model. I had always purchased TP Link products up until then but after that I got Netgear and then ASUS as my main routers (the C7 V2 went straight into a press in it's wrapper and is still there many years later lol). I foolishly purchased these S4's for additional mesh cover around the house, they are just access points feeding from my main ASUS so I was thinking what's the worst that could happen. It's just frustrating and has served to remind me to never buy TP Link ever again. Not worth it. I know of no other company that literally churns out routers and different variants of those routers all wholly incompatible with each other. Shocking stuff. There probably won't ever be a production firmware update for these variants and eventually people will move on and they may RMA the handful of M4 & S4 units left out in the wild when it's less costly for them to do that. I'll be very happy to be proved wrong but......
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That would be great indeed since there are sometime really weird behavior when it tries to select the AP; happen very often that devices (not only 1!) will select the weakest signal when it has one box into the same room ... Having this option in a stable version to at least hint what you know the preferred one to select would be a basis when the automatic process it completely nuts.
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@David-TP Hey, how can I revert back to stable firmware from the beta please?
And if I do, can I then go back on to the Beta without causing problems? Just need to test something, getting a lot of latency online suddenly.
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@ConcernedUser See this article: How to use firmware recovery if the Deco become brick (method 2)
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@David-TP any update.???
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@Lalolelendo what is this....?
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