TP-LINK TL-WDR4900 v1

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abgn (AN900)
N900 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router
Homepage	Product page
Downloads	Download page
Wikipedia	TP-Link
3rd Party Firmware
dd-wrt	Supported
OpenWrt	Supported
Tomato any flavor	Incompatible
Gargoyle	Status Unknown
Platform
Brand • Model • Rev	TP-LINK TL-WDR4900 v1
FCC ID	TE7WDR4900
IC ID	8853A-WDR4900
Board ID	2050500289
Type	wireless router
CPU1	Freescale P1014
CPU1 Type	Power e500
CPU1 Speed	800 MHz
Flash1 Chip	Spansion FL128SAIF00
Flash1 Size	16 MiB16,777,216 B <br />131,072 Kib <br />16,384 KiB <br />128 Mib <br />0.0156 GiB <br />
RAM1 Size	128 MiB134,217,728 B <br />1,048,576 Kib <br />131,072 KiB <br />1,024 Mib <br />0.125 GiB <br />
RAM1 Chip	SK hynix H5TQ1G63DFR-H9C
ETH chip1	Freescale P1014
Switch	Atheros AR8327N
Ethernet Port Count	1-1GbE-WAN 4-1GbE-LAN
Wired Standard	IEEE 802.3i/3u/3ab
802dot11 OUI: A0:F3:C1 (7 E, 7 W), F8:1A:67 (3 E, 5 W) Ethernet OUI: A0:F3:C1 (7 E, 7 W), F8:1A:67 (3 E, 5 W)
Stock bootloader	U-Boot
Expansion IF types	USB 2.0
USB ports	2
USB Hub Compatible	Untested
Power	12 VDC, 2.5 A
Connector type	barrel
Serial Port (UART)	yes, 3.3, (115200 8N1)
JTAG Port	yes
Other
Default SSID: TP-LINK_2.4GHz_XXXXXX (20 addl. devices) , TP-LINK_5GHz_XXXXXX (19 addl. devices) Default IP address: 192.168.0.1 the IP 192.168.0.1 is used by 799 additional devices of which 99 are TP-LINK devices Default login user: admin Default login password: admin admin:admin credentials used by 1342 additional devices of which 280 are TP-LINK devices
Manuf/OEM/ODM	TP-LINK
3rd Party Firmware Support	OpenWrt • (List | Dev | DLs) , DD-WRT • (List)
Retail
Availability	End of Life
End of Life date	2015
(Est.) release date	January 2013
Country of manuf	China
Radio 1
Chip1	Atheros AR9580
Wireless interface OUI	A0:F3:C1, F8:1A:67
Antenna Connector Type	RP-SMA
MIMO status	3x3:3
Wireless Standard	IEEE 802.11a/n
802.11n	up to 450 Mbps
802.11a	up to 54 Mbps
WiFi Operating Frequency	5 GHz
Radio 2
Chip1	Atheros AR9381
Wireless interface OUI	A0:F3:C1, F8:1A:67
Antenna Connector Type	none specified
MIMO status	3x3:3
Wireless Standard	IEEE 802.11b/g/n
802.11n	up to 450 Mbps
802.11g	up to 54 Mbps
802.11b	up to 11 Mbps
WiFi Operating Frequency	2.4 GHz
CPU1 brand Radio1 chip1 brand Radio2 chip1 brand TP-LINK TL-WDR4900 v1 Freescale Atheros Atheros TP-LINK TL-WDR4900 v2 Qualcomm Atheros Qualcomm Atheros Atheros

For a list of all currently documented Atheros (QCA) chipsets with specifications, see Atheros.
For a list of all currently documented Freescale (NXP) SoC's with specifications, see Freescale.

For a list of all currently documented TP-LINK device with specifications, see TP-LINK.

• 450 Mbps - 3SS 5GHz 802.11n (40MHz chan.),

• 450 Mbps - 3SS 2.4GHz 802.11n (40MHz chan.) = AN900 class

Overview

"2050500289" and "Rev:1.0" is silkscreened on the board.

• CPU: Freescale Semiconductor QorIQ P1014 (@800 MHz)

Hardware NAT acceleration w/ Atheros AR8327N switch

(.. but not currently, or likely anytime soon, with OpenWrt)

Per TP-LINK's specs... • >>
*'''EIRP:''' < 20dBm *'''Receiver sensitivity''' **2.4 GHz ***450Mbps: -71dBm ***300Mbps: -71dBm ***270Mbps: -71dBm ***195Mbps: -72dBm ***130Mbps: -74dBm ***54Mbps: -78dBm ***6Mbps: -94dBm **5 GHz ***450Mbps: -66dBm ***405Mbps: -66dBm (300Mbps??) ***270Mbps: -67dBm ***195Mbps: -70dBm ***130Mbps: -73dBm ***54Mbps: -75dBm ***6Mbps: -90dBm

Links of Interest

• Firmware Interface

• On the OpenWrt forums (OpenWrt boot log posted by Gabor Juhos)

Freescale P1014 @800MHz (P1014RDB board), 128MB DRAM,

168c:abcd (hm.) and 168c:0033 (AR9580) PCI IDs

• On the OpenWrt wiki

There would appear to be two versions of the device..

• v1 - worldwide version, Freescale based
  • F8:1A:67 OUI, per the censored label
  • changeset (r36051) adding profile build image for the device
• v2 - China only, QCA QCA9558 based
  • v2 on the OpenWrt forums

• Review on redeszone.net (ES) (w/ excellent internal photos)

De-heatsinkized CPU visible as a Freescale P1014NSN5HFA (P1014)

- not a P1010.. but there does not appear to be anything significantly

different between the two models P1010 appears to have 3x GbE SGMII

(vs. P1014's 2x) and trusted boot support

WiFi chips visible in their photos as AR9580 (AR9580-AR1A) and AR9381

USB 2.0 hub (P1014 has only 1x USB 2.0) is a Genesys Logic GL850G.

• Review on uk.hardware.info

specifies WiFi chips as AR9385 (no) and AR9381

Flashing

Flashing dd-wrt

Supported by dd-wrt as of = tl-wdr4900v1 build 21318 20130418

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Flashing OpenWrt

On the OpenWrt ToH (techdata entry)
On the OpenWrt Wiki
On the OpenWrt Forum
OpenWrt Target: mpc85xx
OpenWrt Subtarget: p1010
OpenWrt Package architecture: powerpc_8540
Support started version: 14.07
Current supported version: 23.05.5

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Pictures

Retail Images

• from TP-LINK
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