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I simply have no answer to this question, but this much is true: TP-Link tends to make lots of hardware variants for different retail outlets with different price points, which, at times, makes little financial sense. Let’s take its latest Wi-Fi 7 hardware, for example. In May 2024, TP-Link released the Archer BE550. At the $250 apiece launch price, it was the least expensive Wi-Fi 7 router at the time. It then also released the Walmart-exclusive Archer BE9300 variant, which costs $50 less and supposedly has only two 2.5Gbps ports (as opposed to five in the BE550). In reality, this variant has

TP-Link was founded in 1996 in Shenzhen (China) by two Chinese-born brothers, Zhao Jianjun and Zhao Jiaxing. For all intents and purposes, it was definitely a Chinese company at the beginning. TP-Link first entered the US market in 2008, and by 2019, it held some 20% of the market share in home and SMB networking devices. During this period, it had no issue identifying itself as a Chinese company. In the past few years, the US portion of TP-Link has aggressively offered low-cost networking hardware. By late 2024, its market share reportedly reached around 65%, with its hardware powering Intern