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Is my router still getting security updates?
UK law makes every router maker publish a support period. Only two of the retail makers checked publish it in a form you can look your own model up in. The broadband providers turned out to do better, so this checks yours against both: Asus and TP-Link, plus the Sky, BT, EE, TalkTalk and Virgin Media boxes most British households never chose. And it tells you plainly when nobody has published an answer.
Why most routers cannot be answered
Every maker here complies with the law. That turned out to be the least useful fact about them. A compliance statement can confirm that a support period exists without ever saying when yours ends, and two of the retail makers stop exactly there. NETGEAR publishes its end-of-service list as a search box, so you can confirm a model you already suspect and cannot browse the rest. D-Link publishes the procedure by which it would notify you and no per-model dates at all.
The strongest sources are providers rather than manufacturers, which was not the expected result. Sky declares itself the manufacturer of its own hubs and issues a signed Statement of Compliance per model with a printed calendar end date, citing that same 5.3-13 clause and then answering it. The Sky Max Hub's period ran out on 30 August 2026. Nothing else in this lane states a date that plainly.
TalkTalk publishes worse documents and a better answer. Its table gives each product a support month rather than a day, and it is the only table here that delivers bad news about a provider's own current routers: the FAST 5364 and FAST 5464 both ran out in March 2026. It also publishes something nobody else does, a list of 47devices it states are no longer supported at all. Every other provider's silence has to be reported here as an open question. TalkTalk answered it.
So the useful question is not whether a maker publishes, but whether what it publishes can be enumerated. Asus and TP-Link clear that bar among the makers; Sky, BT, EE and TalkTalk clear it among the providers; NETGEAR, D-Link and Virgin Media do not. A search here still comes back empty for a great many routers, and that empty result is a real finding about the state of the market rather than a gap in this page. Dressing it up as “model not found” would hide the thing worth knowing.
A printed date and a worked-out date are not the same thing
Asus prints an end date against each model. TP-Link prints an end-of-life date and, separately, a policy that adds three years to it. Both produce a date on this page and the second one carries an assumption the first does not, so every result says which kind it is and shows the date the maker actually published underneath.
The same care applies where a model name carries more than one date. TP-Link dates each hardware version separately, and Asus lists a handful of names twice without explaining why. In both cases the result shows the earliest date, because you might be the person on that one, and lists the others so you can check the label. If you want the same treatment for your phone or laptop, the phone update checker and the computer update checker work the same way.
Frequently asked
How long does a router get security updates?
There is no single answer, and the honest version is that most people cannot find out. UK law, the Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure regime, requires every manufacturer selling a connectable product in Britain to publish a defined security support period. Every major router maker complies. The catch is that complying does not mean publishing a list: a compliance statement can say the period exists without ever telling you when yours ends. Of the retail makers checked for this tool, Asus and TP-Link publish something you can read model by model, and NETGEAR and D-Link do not. The broadband providers do better: BT, EE and TalkTalk all publish a per-model table, and Sky publishes a signed statement per hub. Where a figure does exist it tends to be short by phone standards: Asus states four years on every current model, and TP-Link's policy is three years counted from the day it declares a product end-of-life.
Is my TP-Link router still getting security updates?
If it appears on TP-Link's end-of-life list, almost certainly not. TP-Link's PSTI page states that the support period ends three years after the product's end-of-life date, and links its end-of-life list. Nothing on that list is dated later than 2022, so adding three years puts every single entry in the past. If your model is not on the list, that is genuinely ambiguous rather than good news: the list itself was last updated in April 2024, so a router retired since then would be missing from it either way. Checking the firmware date in your router's admin page is a better signal about your own box than any list.
Does Asus still update my router?
Asus is the one maker here that prints an end date against each model. Its UK page lists 100 networking products with a date apiece, all of them four-year windows ending on 31 December. Two things are worth knowing about those dates. They are UK commitments made under PSTI, not global promises. And Asus adds that extended support may be provided after the stated date, so the date is a floor rather than a cliff: passing it does not prove updates have stopped, it proves Asus stopped promising them.
What about NETGEAR or D-Link?
No date can be given, and it is worth being precise about why, because both do comply with the law. NETGEAR ties support to End of Service and publishes its end-of-service list as a model-number search box rather than a browsable table, and the last-sale date its policy counts from is not published at all. D-Link publishes an end-of-life policy and a notification procedure without per-model dates. In both cases the practical route is to ask in writing when the model you own stops receiving security updates, and to check the firmware date in your router's admin page in the meantime.
What about my ISP's router, from Sky, BT, EE, TalkTalk or Virgin Media?
Type its name or the model number off the label into the tool above. The short version is that the providers publish better than the retail makers do, and four of the five give you a real date. BT publishes a Product Support table covering 21 products, each with a sales start and a minimum period, and its periods are the longest anywhere in this tool: ten years for the Smart Hub 2, eleven for the Home Hub 6.0, twelve for the DTR-T2100 TV box. EE publishes the same kind of table for 25 products, though its home phone adapters get two years where its routers get five to eight. TalkTalk publishes a support month per product and, uniquely in the UK, a list of 47 devices it states are no longer supported at all. Sky publishes the best single document: a signed Statement of Compliance per model with a printed calendar end date. The Sky Max Hub's period ran out on 30 August 2026. Virgin Media is the one that does not. It names the manufacturer and model number of every box it ships, publishes no dates, and points at the manufacturer instead.
Why does the same router show two different dates for BT and EE?
Because BT and EE are the same group, ship the same hardware, and count the support period from each brand's own sales start rather than from the product's. Six model numbers appear in both companies' tables. Three of them match to the month. Three do not, and the gap is large: the F5394 is listed by EE from a sales start of September 2023, giving five years to September 2028, and by BT from April 2026, giving five years to April 2031. That is the identical router with two and a half years between the answers. So the tool shows both rather than picking one, and the thing that settles it is the brand printed on the box in front of you. BT's own Declaration of Conformity for that model backs up the later date: it was signed on 31 March 2026, one month before the April 2026 sales start BT claims for it.
What actually happens when a router stops getting updates?
Nothing visible. It keeps routing traffic exactly as it did the day before, which is why this deadline is so easy to ignore. What stops is the fixing of newly discovered flaws, and a router is a worse place for that than a laptop: it is the device every other device on your network trusts, it is reachable from the internet by design, and it is almost never looked at. Old routers are actively hunted for this reason. If yours is out of support, replacing it is a genuine cost, but it is a smaller one than most of the alternatives being sold around this problem.
Where do these dates come from?
Manufacturer and provider pages, read directly. Asus's UK networking-product support page, which prints an end date per model; TP-Link's end-of-life list combined with the three-year window TP-Link states on its own PSTI page and links that list from; Sky's signed Statements of Compliance; BT's and EE's Product Support documents; TalkTalk's product cyber security table and its unsupported-device list; and, for the providers that publish no dates, the pages that show what they do publish instead. Nothing here is taken from a roundup or a review site. Where a date is arithmetic rather than printed, the tool says so on the result and shows the date the source did publish, so you can check the working. Every one of these pages is re-fetched on a schedule and checked for the exact values this tool prints, so a source that quietly changes its mind fails loudly rather than silently.