The good news is that once the high-throughput kicks in, it stays enabled as long as the client and router stay connected. I’ll preface this review by saying we discovered wireless performance problems with both TP-LINK’s Archer C7 and D-Link’s DGL-5500 that we reported back to them. I used the C7 with a bunch of devices, including a Surface 3, iPad Mini, Nexus 5 smartphone, MacBook Air and Toshiba Radius notebook. The power supply unit is designed to deliver the correct voltage to the router, ensuring its proper operation.

OpenWrt Factory Firmware: Use this file the first time you flash OpenWrt onto the router as it came from the “factory. and 5GHz band, you can enjoy incredible wireless coverage and reliability in any part of your large home or office. The firmware is a lot nicer to use and it comes with more features such as the QoS and the offline download feature while maintaining the stability of this router. times faster than wireless N speeds and delivering a combined wireless data transfer rate of up to 1. Well just updated my router from the outdated archer c9 to the new archer c7 v5 and what a diferance WiFi signal is much improved reaches the whole house at last no disconnections at all link speed to all devices is over 580mbs so well happy if you need a upgrade get one you won't be disappointed you can't get better than a tp-link router awesome quality and reliability.I used a hex editor (like Flexhex in Windows) and modified locations 0x40 thru 0x47, (which had the 0xc7000002, at least for a OpenWrt binary) and also 0x48 thru 0x4f. I read online that people reached a maximum of 300 Mbits routing/NAT speed and 150 Mbits of SQM speed on this router.

Once TP-Link releases new firmware, I will retest the C7 to make sure that it produces the high throughput it is supposed to without any futzing around. TP-LINK’s Archer C7 might be mistaken for its N750 class TL-WDR4300 sibling, which is the top of the company’s N router line. bin (stripped) to using unmodified TP-Link oem firmware (not stripped), was more of a hassle than I expected. New: A brand-new, unused, unopened and undamaged item in original retail packaging (where packaging . The Archer C7 Wi-Fi router offers fast data transfer speeds, suitable for demanding applications like streaming HD or 4K video, online gaming, and large file transfers.

Keep the WPS/Reset button pressed until the WPS LED turns on (it's the LED with two arrows pointing in different directions). The wizard is very easy to use, but you do have to complete it before you can begin browsing the internet. Powered by Qualcomm's QCA9558 Scorpio system-on-chip, the C7 has a 720-MHz processor and 128MB of RAM. The 15 up to 18 series was pretty OK to me (But, back then, i didn't had to route 500Mbps to more than 10 clients ), but since i have to manage around 12-14 clients, i need QOS and is QOS what makes things slow in this router. On the bottom of the TP-Link Archer C7 AC1750, we have mountings to enable the end user to attach it to a surface or wall mount, 4 small rubber pads to allow air to vent underneath the router and an information sticker which has information regarding the make, model, serial and even the default information required to log into the network for the first time.