“End of Life” Routers any way to spring new life into them?
3 hours ago, WesTooLoose said:So I have two end of life routers the c5400 and the c2300
both no longer receive Canadian firmware updates, but do have a final us update and until I can get a newer router I would still like to have it safely updated for security
what can be done with end of life routers?
is it safe to update using a improper country firmware or different versions of that same router?
c5400 is v1 (discontinued in 2017, end of life 2017 for v1)
c2300 is v2 (discontinued in 2016, end of life 2017 for product)
any help or idea greatly appreciated
Different countries sometimes use completely different hardware for the same model name, so can be risky.
Generally I'd look to see if OpenWRT supports them and if not, just use them for something where it doesn't matter if they use old firmware. (anything on the LAN side only with DHCP disabled is reasonably safe)
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