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BE550 4G/5G USB Tethering

BE550 4G/5G USB Tethering
BE550 4G/5G USB Tethering
2025-11-21 13:28:50
Model: Archer BE550  
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Firmware Version: Default as delivered. Havent received the unit yet.

Hi Tp-Link

 

Asus provides this feature on alot of their in-expensive router and have done so for many years: Example - Asus RT-AC58u supports 3g/4g usb tethering, which I have used extensively.

 

It is very surprising to me that a product which seems to be of high quality (Archer BE550) does not provide the user with this essentiel functionality.

I will have to rely on usb-c to ethernet adapter tethering instead, which is not optimal, but an inconvenient work-arround. Even my Raspberry Pi supports usb tethering from an android phone :-).

 

I am very much looking forward to utilizing this router in my home network :-).

 

Kindly regards

Søren Madsen

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Re:BE550 4G/5G USB Tethering
2025-12-11 09:29:44 - last edited 2025-12-11 09:32:14

Hello @Smadsen ,

Thanks for contacting our community.

 

Currently, we have some portable travel routers that support USB Tethering Mode, such as TL-WR3602BE,TL-WR3002X, and TL-WR1502X.

We have not received any information regarding plans to add a USB Tethering Mode to the Archer BE550. If you need this feature, you can just consider the models I mentioned. Specifically, the TL-WR3602BE is a WiFi 7 router.

 

Thank you for posting on the TP-Link community. We appreciate all your feedback and feature requests here. Feel free to let us know of any other feature requests you may have; we’d be happy to send them up for you.

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Re:BE550 4G/5G USB Tethering
2026-01-06 14:16:20 - last edited 2026-01-06 14:17:35

  @Joseph-TP 

An alternative solution to the tethering limitation is to use a usb-c to ethernet adapter. I use a wavlink 2.5 GBe device. This solution  however requires, that I buy another thingye to make my network setup complete. I still think that providing usb-tethering on a product in this tier would be a requirement of a networking device in 2024/2025 era. The Asus I referred to in the beginning of this post is/was (it's old) a significantly cheaper product.

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