said by Lurker36:I've been eyeballing the TP-Link products since they've finally started showing up over here. We used them by the case on projects in the Middle East and Asia - and did horrible, horrible things to them (bcuz dey wuz CHEEP!), and they held up pretty well. But, this was relegated to switches and WiFi products. I had been wondering how the robustness/dollar translated to their DSL modem...
The only experience I have had with TP-Link products has been with the TP-Link routers used by the SamKnows and RIPE Atlas projects. It is entirely possible that the network lockup problems I experienced with the SamKnows box was due to the custom OpenWRT firmware and not to the router itself. I was not necessarily saying that the TP-Link products were junk; only that my experience would not permit me to recommend their use (and I was surmising that similar bad experiences might have been the reason that nobody else had replied to this thread).
Speaking of doing horrible things to them, I did try to install the original TP-Link firmware on the SamKnows WR1043-ND box after I dropped out of that project, because I wanted to see what kind of IPv6 support was available on that device (using either the TP-Link or generic OpenWRT firmware) when used as a router instead of a layer 2 bridge; but that totally bricked the device and made any other evaluation/testing impossible. I later found out that I needed to do a binary edit of the TP-Link firmware file and remove the TP-Link bootloader to prevent the bricking from occurring...but it was already too late.