Thanks for your input, I was able to upgrade stock firmware to latest as normal after confirming with the TP-Link support team which was great at assisting and also provided me with the latest...

Hi guys, I own a TP-Link TL-WR1043ND. Some time ago I decided to test DD-WRT and OpenWRT firmware on it, but then it turned out they weren't so great to me, so I reverted back to the original...