Hi All, Sorry to be late for the "party"
I have recently purchased a TP-Link TD-W9970 v3, which I use as a VDSL2 modem, while using Google mesh for the wifi in the house.
I am pretty happy with the stability of the TP-Link, compared to a "dog" Asus which I am sending back to the ISP.
However, to get more evidence and attempt to remove a cap to the speed that it seems I have (DL speed seems to have been put to 60Mbps, while I could reach 78Mbps max rate with previous supplier).
The TP-Link router has limited CLI capability and I have realised, following several of the useful posts in this forum, that I could remove this limitation, quite easily.
I have therefore installed the python script described here
https://forum.kitz.co.uk/index.php/topic,14377.msg357441.html#msg357441, added the extra line
<Description val="Modem Router`telnetd -p 1023 -l login`" /> as suggested, created config.bin file from the modified xml file, using the python script, and added the newly created config.bin to the router.
The restore process was successful, until a message 403 forbidden appeared and I had to reboot the router.
Luckily the router is still functioning, however the modification was not accepted, so the extra line included to the xml file is not there anymore (if I go through the process of decrypting the bin file again)
What am I doing wrong? Has anyone managed to flash the v3 of this router?
Thanks
Giuseppe