Probably primarily for accounting and warehouse management reasons. If an item’s “revision” is essentially the same “thing” (just with newer/different guts and/or firmware), they probably wouldn’t want to complicate their management of that item. More likely, internally, they note the “revision” by a lot# or some sort of date. But to the general populous, nothing on the surface has changed. So, it is in essence the same item as far as the public is concerned. Can be frustrating to us “in the know” folk, yes, but we few aren’t the ones making the company a profit. :)
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alex Smith (K4RNT) Sent: Sunday, November 1, 2015 12:23 PM To: [email protected]; CHUGALUG <[email protected]> Subject: [nlug] Annoyed with TP-Link WHY do manufacturers re-use model numbers when they revise the product to include new components? Why can't they just sequence the model number to a different number when they revise it? I recommended for my mom a TP-Link TP-WR841ND, specifically because it was on the list of supported devices for DD-WRT, and it came with revision 9, which is NOT supported yet. WHY? I finally found beta versions of DD-WRT, but they're turning out to be unreliable. I just installed the latest beta yesterday after the Wi-Fi cut out for the second time in a week. Why is TP-Link, one of the better supported device manufacturers with DD-WRT, becoming like Linksys? I now don't like TP-Link almost as much as I hate Linksys. </rant> " 'With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning... The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we’re all damaged." - Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron Satie, Star Trek: TNG episode "The Drumhead" - Alex Smith - Kent, Washington (metropolitan Seattle area) -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> . For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
