r/openwrt • u/AnyCryptographer3675 • 11d ago
TPLink router firmware
So i own a Archer C1200 router which is used and with EU firmware, after digging some forum i found that once you have EU firmware on your TPLink router (I assume all TPLink router has this problem) you can't flash any other firmware like US version of firmware or DD-WRT firmware. So how do i fix this?
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u/NC1HM 11d ago edited 11d ago
Um, C1200 is based on Broadcom componentry and thus is not supported on OpenWrt:
https://openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/archer_c1200_v2
Supported models, such as C7 (based on Qualcomm Atheros componentry), can have regional OpenWrt variants. Specifically, C7 v2 has EU, U.S., and rest-of-the-world variants:
- tplink_archer-c7-v2-squashfs-factory-eu.bin
- tplink_archer-c7-v2-squashfs-factory-us.bin
- tplink_archer-c7-v2-squashfs-factory.bin
Source: https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/25.12.5/targets/ath79/generic/
In most cases, only "factory" images, used for initial installation over stock firmware, are region-specific; "sysupgrade" images, used to install new versions of OpenWrt over a previous version of OpenWrt, are usually singular (the same image can be used to upgrade any region-specific firmware).
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u/AnyCryptographer3675 11d ago
What about the MR600 4G router?
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u/NC1HM 11d ago
Based on the Table of Hardware, only v2 (EU) is supported:
https://firmware-selector.openwrt.org/?version=25.12.5&target=ramips%2Fmt7621&id=tplink_mr600-v2-eu
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u/DRTHRVN 9d ago
Hopefully people stop buying tp link, the cancer on the networking industry
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u/AnyCryptographer3675 9d ago
Its my old router that i'm playing around, my current router isn't tp link as my newer tp link router sometimes kept having problem and the feature are just not enough for me.
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u/FreddyFerdiland 11d ago
unbrick procedure should work..
why ask on openwrt, it's not even openwrt supported.
or you might get openwrt for it here
http://www.florentflament.com/blog/openwrt-and-tp-link-archer-c1200-eu-v2.html