TP-Link EAP225 Omada AC1350 Gigabit Wireless Access Point Business WiFi Solution w/Mesh Support, Seamless Roaming & MU-MIMO PoE Powered SDN Integrated Cloud Access & Omada App White

First of all, let's get this out of the way. There's a review that states: "You can’t program this device (create and ssid and password protect your WiFi) without downloading their app that logs all the sites you visit TP Link shares this information with their 'partners' per their privacy policy..." Let me explain what I did and let you be the judge. I installed one. (I ordered two and they're both installed now.) Then I discovered its IP address using Advanced IP Scanner. (I also could have used IPScan or looked at a status page on my router.) At no time did I use a mobile device for anything, let alone download an app. From there, I its (really GOOD) GUI interface, turned off its DHCP and set the IP address I wanted it to be, using Firefox (I could also have used Chrome, Opera, or K-Meleon, all of which I have installed. I then went back in and set everything else the way I wanted it. If the reviewer was talking about the Omada software (which I don't use), he should have stated that. I hope this will allow you to make it past that review and read some "real" reviews. There are no cons that I can think of except those dictated by the limits on WiFi imposed by the FCC. The range is not miraculous, but it's VERY good. Really nice 360 degree coverage!! (When mounted on the ceiling, anyway!) It's extremely competent and secure, with lots of settings. Guest networks with lots of settings. Pretty much each and every setting can be set for each band (2.14 or 5GHz) and for the guest networks - separately. I have a 10 foot ceiling throughout, with ceiling tiles. I can't tell you how pleased I was that long, thin screws, "fender" washers and wingnuts were included just for that!! I can almost say it's a tool less installation, but you do have to cut a hole in the ceiling tile. I used my Swiss Army Knife. They look really nice. The power LED is very bright and visible and can be turned on or off in the settings, too. Two of them have been running flawlessly for almost two months now. It's a 3000 square foot building and it's notorious for "eating" RF. It's cider block and it even has some cinder block wall on the inside. The best cordless phones made can barely make it from one end to the other and die almost as soon as one walks outside. These two EAP's cover it completely and even reach outside! There is nowhere I can go where the signal strength isn't at least "Good". In most places, it's "Excellent". Now there's WiFi outside, too, as long as one doesn't stray too far. One is powered by the PoE adapter that came with it, and the other is powered by a PoE gigabit switch. They work great either way. And they're as fast as gigabit Ethernet, anyway! I can't think of anything I've ordered from Amazon that I like more than these things! I'd be happy if I'd spent twice the money for them; just to avoid the "junk" out there! I'm starting to have all kinds of faith in TP-Link - especially when it comes to WiFi!!

Just received and connected, not a long-term review. I learned basic networking for an Associate's degree in programming I started in 1999. The bubble burst and due to my life commitments I never got into IT but it has helped a lot over the years. Networking sure has come a long way since then. The technologies and acronyms are enough to drive me crazy and I don't have time to figure it all out. In the default configuration the advanced features are there if you need them but this is just for a home network so I'll leave them alone. I'm using this as a standalone access point, the Omada software is probably great but I didn't want to add a controller or have a 24/7 server running it. This unit has it's own web UI that lets you set all of the basic info and a lot of advanced features. It has a scheduler so I'm just going to put some reasonable times in it for the kids to connect and change the password on our downstairs system. We don't have gigabit internet but did recently upgrade to 300Mbps. Our old Apple Airport Express system was certainly faster than our WAN connection but after seeing the insane speeds this AP hits I MAY have to get a controller to use with my TP-Link ER605 and set up a few more of these. Again, it's been 20+ years since I went to school and I haven't kept up with all the advances but the screenshot I've included was taken on my Mac Mini with ethernet disabled, wireless connection to the EAP225 connected to our LAN. Somehow I got faster speeds than I pay for but that MIGHT be some quality or service or similar trickery that the AP provides. Either way it's hella fast AND includes a POE injector which is a great deal at this price point. I had looked at a LOT of mesh and secure wifi systems but could never find for certain if the RJ-45 ports on the back were manageable. Couldn't find any company that even talked about it. Maybe they are but I didn't want to have to fill the ports with hot glue if they weren't. Decided on this instead because it's pretty easy to plug something into the back of one of those but this can be mounted on the ceiling or wall and will kill ALL the wifi upstairs if they try to take it off to get to the ethernet jack. The unit is smaller than I thought it would be. The LED is green and doesn't look like it will be horribly bright. However it has the ability to turn it off (genius!) in the UI. 120 yr old plaster house results using EAP225 connecting to testmy.net: *Using 5GHz band in the same room I get 300Mbps or more on iPhone 13 mini, one room over drops to 180, and then in the kitchen it drops to 100. Not horrible. *Using 2.4GHz band it drops to 80 in next room and 20Mbps in the kitchen. Pretty decent with the 5GHz so if you struggle with plaster walls this works well. If you were wondering why we are still using old Apple Airport setup it's because they were able to make a "mesh" system long before they became mass market items. In our impenetrable old house WiFi suffers horribly trying to get through layers of plaster, lath, more lath, and then more plaster so we have Airport units placed where we need them that are connected to a central Airport. They all share the same network name and password so we can roam and automatically connect to the best connection. Usually. After this review I've convinced myself to look deeper into the Omada software and may wind up getting a controller and a few more APs. Will update if so. This is a great price for a great piece of hardware whether you use it as a standalone AP or part of a larger system. If you want something smaller they have a /Wall version with 3 ethernet ports on the bottom and the WAN port on the back.

I got my first AC1350/EAP225 way back in 2018 during a Black Friday sale. I got a second one this week to see how well the mesh networking feature works. For the price, I am really impressed. Before buying, I was concerned because one other reviewer said his mesh network collapsed when he powered down the PC that hosted the controller software, but that hasn't been a problem for me so far. I shut my home PC down over night, and noted that both APs were up and serving traffic just fine when I woke up this morning (before turning on my PC to run the controller software again). My second AP isn't connected to anything other than a garage wall outlet, so I know it's working without the controller running when I'm on the other end of my property surfing YouTube on a laptop. When I fired up my PC and the controller software this morning, I noted half a dozen clients from my in-laws RV in the driveway were already connected and merrily surfing away while my PC remained off. Speaking of the controller software, it's pretty nice. Some of the English is a little broken, which I find funny, but otherwise, the software is really high quality, especially for being free. It has lots of features like channel strength scanning, showing a map of clients, event log, available bandwidth, who's using which bands, signal strength, error rate, throughput, and a lot of other stuff. It's pretty fancy. It looks like the controller software is built with Java and runs some sort of Java servlet container. You access the UI via browser. I noted that the software uses a self contained Mongo database server. I elected to install the software to my "Program Files" folder, so I had to adjust some NTFS permissions to allow Mongo db write access and make it work correctly, but it otherwise doesn't need to run as Administrator. If you have no idea what I'm talking about here, this EAP setup may not be for you, but if you're an IT person like me, it's great. I'm a software engineer that didn't even know what 'mesh networking' was exactly, last week, and I found it pretty easy to learn and implement. The 'Omada' software is available and regularly updated on the TP-Link website, and I had to download new firmware for my APs right off the bat, too. Once the software is running though, it's pretty simple to provision the access points. Just make sure you know what you're doing with WPA2, passwords, etc. to keep your network to yourself, of course. The package doesn't have any of the BS bloat that ships with home version mesh network packages like 'Antivirus' junk and 'Parental Controls', that I can tell. Just pure, professional, wireless networking. It does have things like 'Guest Network', and some other bells and whistles geared toward small businesses. This package feels like it was made for IT people and an office, and that's good.

I realize that these are made primarily for a business, but then, so was the older one I replaced - and the parts I needed to understand for using it in a house were understandable. Well - this thing is a bit out of my league, IT speaking. I have it hooked up (PoE - SO easy to install in my home networking cabinet - as was my last one). I'm not taking a star off because I'm too stupid to understand it (I am too stupid, but it's not the product fault!). What I'm not happy about is the 5g wi-fi coverage. I have a 1900 sq ft, 2 story house. This, as was the old one, is installed pretty much in the middle of the house (L-shaped - hard to really get a "middle"), just at the top of a staircase that's open-walled to downstairs - meaning, there isn't a lot, structurally, to block a signal. The 2.4g signal coverage is just fine - if I want things to download at 54mbps. The 5g signal is quite odd. I can be standing directly under the unit and sometimes get 800-ish mbps, sometime only 200-300-ish. Going into the Master Bedroom (one room away - in the "L" part of the house), the reception drops horribly, often my phone or tablet,etc will simply switch to the 2.4g signal because it's stronger (even though the 5g signal is weak but still a bit faster - just unstable, I suppose). Downstairs isn't quite as bad as the Master Bedroom, but the signal strength is fluctuating a lot. Fortunately, the majority of my house is wired internet, so my TV/blu-ray/AV equipment gets the full 1T for good streaming. I bought this because it had good ratings, the price was right, and mainly, for the PoE. The old unit (different company) was also a 2.4g/5g and only about 3 years old when it died (glad I kept the original 10 yo 2.4g unit to use for a bit - 2.4g is better than no wi-fi!) and it actually had the exact same issue with the 5g as this one - lots of fluctuation in the signal. I just thought it was because it was an off-brand. Apparently not. Because SO MANY things these days are wi-fi ONLY (Alexa, my washer/dryer, newer laptops/tablets, light switches - home automation, gotta love it!) I really want to have a better signal than what I'm getting. I did purchase a second of this same unit to install downstairs as a range extender but haven't had time to hook it up yet. I'm really hoping that will help with the 5g signal. I also need to contact my brother, who knows a whole lot more about IT than I do!!

I'm renting a townhouse with cat6 ran to the ceiling on all 3 floors for in ceiling access points. The router that ATT provided with their fiber service (a BGW320-500) is fairly strong and can make it's way up from the basement closet (where the fiber connection is) all the way to the top floor to the point where it is "usable" but speed definitely drops down to sub 100mbps, and when several devices are using data on the top floor, all the dropped packets can slow the entire network down. Enter this device, which I bought as a trial to use the built in cat6 cable, and possibly buy another 1 or 2 with an OC200 controller (or run the controller software on hardware I already have running) and just disable the BGW320-500's antenna all together. The BGW320-500 doesn't put out PoE, so I needed the power adapter, but it works fine (although its a bit messy in my networking closet and would like to buy a PoE switch eventually). I did fry my network cable tester by having the signal emitter on the ceiling end to identify the right cable in the network cabinet, and then connecting the power injector on to the cabinet end, sending PoE *into* the signal emitter. By the time I realized what I did, it was non-functional and had burnt electronics smell. If you need a cable tester to find the correct cable, be sure to remove the device before connecting to PoE. After connecting the access point to the PoE live cable, it turned right on. It took maybe 30 seconds to mount into the drywall ceiling with the adapter plate. It comes with drywall anchors but the device can't weigh more than a couple of pounds, and 3 screws seems to hold it fine without any additional weight hanging from it. When first connecting it, it was able to hang from just the cat6 cable without any real amount of stress, so if by some chance we have an earthquake and it falls from the screws, it still shouldn't fall to the ground. After that, it's as simple as finding the IP in your router's client table, going to the web access panel, and setting up the SSID/Password (I used the same as my home network). There's even a feature buried in the configuration that you can disable the status LED, which I did, considering it's mounted right outside of my bedroom door. After the SSID/Password were set up, it worked flawlessly. You can see which clients are connected directly to it. The ATT router config menu even shows it as an "access point" which I believe helps it recognize the roaming 802.11 standards, and they somehow control the handoff amongst the two devices with no extra configuration needed, because several devices have switched over to the access point without being power cycled. My phone gets upwards of 280-300 mbps on the top floor now, which was only ~100mbps before, so it's definitely a massive improvement. No more loading delays where I have to drop wifi and connect to 5g to keep moving, everything seems to have "full service" level speed/connection. It actually works so well that my plans to buy another one or two with a PoE switch and a dedicated OC200 controller have been sidelined until I have some more "play money" spending cash, because I just simply don't need them anymore. It seems to cover the largest dead spot in the house, and now I get reliable connection across all 3 floors without needing to spend a couple hundred bucks. Finishing out the full 3 AP setup with a PoE switch is just a "nice to have" luxury at this point.

I bought one of these for the opposite end of my ranch-style house, since my router's wifi was weak at that distance. I like that it's POE, so I only had to run a CAT5e cable to it and hook it to my POE switch (although it comes with its own POE power injector which is a nice bonus). The setup was fairly straight forward using the app to get it set up initially, and later using the built-in web admin page through a browser for additional changes. It puts out a decent signal, but I was a bit disappointed in that it didn't quite make it from its location to my office, which is on the same level, but about 50 feet away with about 3 hollow (stud/drywall) walls between. My office seems to be somewhat of a dead zone in the house due to its layout, so I ended up buying another for near my office, creating a triangle around the perimeter of the house with my router and the two APs. When you're within 20-30 feet of the AP and no walls, it works very well and signal is quite strong. In my tests, it provided full throughput for my internet service, just make sure you connect it to a gigabit router and/or POE switch or it will only operate at the speed of the slowest link. My existing POE switch was only 100 mbps (for security cameras), so the switch was limited to that throughput, so I added a gigabit POE switch and connected the APs to that instead and they now show full throughput on internet speed tests. One feature I really liked was the ability to add additional SSIDs. During initial setup it asks for your 2.4GHz and 5GHz passwords, but I also have a 2.4GHz and 5GHz guest networks on my router. After the initial setup, I went into the browser interface and found a small "add" (+) button near the list of SSIDs and I was able to add the guest network SSIDs for each frequency. I was also able to select them as "Guest" networks in the AP configuration pages. I duplicated the SSIDs from my router and there doesn't seem to be any conflicts. Wirelress devices just seem to pick up their connection from the closest AP or the router depending on where they are in the house, which is how I hoped it would work. For installation, the mounting plate attaches to the ceiling, then you "twist" the device into to three "tabs" until it lock in place. This part was a bit tricky as the tabs seemed tight. Getting it to twist into the tabs is difficult to align as you place the AP over the bracket, and I really had to push the AP up and rotate it hard to get it to snap into the bracket. The "snapping" process on one of them took a lot of force and I thought I broke it when it finally locked in, but it was fine. It has a tab you can insert a paper clip into to release it from the bracket for removal. I think the mounting plate design could use a bit of a rework given my experience, but it's certainly not a reason to pass this by. Another inconvenience was the fact that updating the firmware causes all your settings to be lost. This happened with both devices. I hope future updates don't require a full reconfiguration of the device each time. I'm looking forward to great wifi throughout my house now. So far, the devices that were previously located in a "dead" or "weak" spot (for example, streaming boxes that could only able to get 1-3 mbps) now get 90+ mbps so it definitely solved those issues. Just be aware that depending on the size and layout of your home, you may need more than one. I didn't want this to be visible in the center of my living room ceiling (which is the center of my home), so I had to install them in hallways which are more on the perimeter of the home, thus needing more than one to get full coverage. For the price, this was an excellent choice for our home and I highly recommend it.

Update: 12-19-19 The EAP225 V3 is still going strong. But I've added another Access Point (AP) to extend the range of my separate "Smart Things" network. This time I bought the N300, which is the EAP115. There are some major differences between the two and I listed them below. EAP115 (N300) - - This AP is Wireless N (n,b,g) only, so no 5GHz, it only has the 2.4GHz channel. For Smart Devices (IOT) it's perfect. -The LAN port going in is 100Mbps instead of the 1,000Mbps (Gigabit) port on the 225 - It does NOT come with the PoE injector. This device will work with PoE (Power over Ethernet) but you'd need your own injector or PoE switch - the 225 comes with said injector. Original Review of EAP 225 (AC1350) I use this AP mainly as my "Smart Things" Access Point but also to extend my 5ghz wifi for my phones etc. If you are somewhat tech savvy this is a no brainer. If you aren't, then just read and watch some videos before purchasing and everything should still go smoothly. I struggle when it gets around the time I feel I need to buy and/or replace/upgrade my router. With new high end routers going for $400 - $600 I always end up going down the rabbit hole and stress about buying something at the wrong time, or worry about getting stuck with a new piece of tech that has a crap chip in it, or bad software. So I decided to just grab this AP during black Friday (for $45) and use it to hold me over. I was definitely not disappointed. You can install these anywhere you want, and even install them like a smoke detector (since it can run without an outlet, when using PoE). That is what I did at first and it worked great. It comes with an injector for PoE, so even if you don't have a PoE switch you are safe and won't have to spend any more money. For those that don't know PoE is simply Power over Ethernet. It is something that allows devices, like this and other things, to get their power directly from the Ethernet cable. This means you don't need to run a separate power cord as well as an Ethernet cable to it to use it. It also doesn't take a special Ethernet cable to do so either. But it does take an injector (that has an Ethernet input from your router or switch, and outputs a powered Ethernet line) or a PoE switch. I originally installed this in my garage (as pictured) and used it to boost both my 2.4 and 5 signals. Setting it up with the same SSIDs and passwords. Working out how to get the handover to my main router took only a little while. I used the web based interface and was able to set the strength (power level of the antennas) of the signals to the right point for each one so that my main router would take over once I was halfway through the house. That worked remarkably well, until I finally decided on a new router. By the time I bought the new router I had also purchased a bunch of smart wifi devices. So I now use this as the access point for them (on the 2.4 GHz) and only use the 5 GHz to extend the range for my other devices. This device is able to setup multiple SSIDs and I am using a different SSID for the 2.4 (and am keeping it isolated to protect my home devices) but I am using the same for the 5 GHz and only allow the phones and tablets (devices that aren't in a fixed place) to connect to it. I'm a fairly trust worthy person, but would rather play it safe with my WiFi IoT stuff. So this is a wonderful solution for that problem. Update: 8 months later and it's still going strong. 3 2.4 SSID's setup and over 20 wifi smart things connected. With load balancing, QOS and rate limiting I've been able to control all of it. I added a second pic with my speeds on 5GHz wifi (limited by my phone's antenna) and it's as good as my router.

Shortly after setting up our WiFi in our new home, it became obvious that having our WiFi router in the basement where the cable modem is located wasn't going to cut it. The cement walls absorbed much of the WiFi signal and, even in our small home with a 40'x28' footprint, we had dead spots. I needed to move our WiFi access to the attic. I bought two TP-Link Omada access points, this Omada AC1350 dual-band router for my wife's and my phones, tablets, and laptops, plus an Omada N300 unit to support our Internet of Things (IoT) and guest WiFi users. Both units are powered by Power-over-Ethernet adapters in the basement connected to a new, Mikrotik hEX small-business router. Using a separate router allows me to segregate our guest users and IoT devices (smart home stuff, Kindles, Alexa speakers, and so on) onto their own, less-secure network and put our private computing resources where our financial and personal data resides. (Note: Our streaming devices, Roku TVs and the like, are connected to the same logical network as our IoT stuff, but have wired connections.) Both Omada access points have been champs. Located in our attic, they were easy to set up as stand-alone access points using TP-Link's Android app, and both provide a strong signal everywhere in our 3-level (basement, main level, and attic) home with an 1100 square foot footprint that extends into our front and back yard. We no longer have dead zones. (Yay!) I only ran into one problem with the Omada AC1350. It was a funny, if embarrassing, problem! The Omada N300 and AC1350 access points are slightly different sizes but have very similar-looking wall/ceiling mounting plates. I spent an unreasonable amount of time trying to figure out why the AC1350 wasn't connecting to its mounting plate before it dawned on me I was trying to hang it on the N300's base! Since then, everything has worked flawlessly, and I can recommend either solution. Pros for the TP-Link Omada AC1350 Access point: * Low cost. * Strong signal. * Plenty of bandwidth for most home users. Can easily support one to two dozen devices. * Very easy to configure as a stand-alone unit with TP-Link's Android app. (The IoS app is probably about the same.) * Comes with a Power-over-Ethernet injector. * Supports mesh WiFi if you add additional access points and a mesh controller. * Reasonably unobtrusive, about twice the size of a smoke detector. * The power indicator light can be turned off in software. Cons: * Great for home use, but probably underpowered for a business environment. I'd move up to an AC1750 access point for office use.

I was struggling to find a better access point which would give max speed and best coverage. I now have zero issues with WiFi. It’s as good as wired network. Go for it without doubt.

التغطية ممتازة جدا سعره رخيص جدا مقارنتا بالشركات الثانية جودة التصنيع لابأس بها التثبيت للنوع ذا بس للسقف بتواجه صعوبه لو بتثبته بالجدار الجانبي

I already had two of these and got this one to replace the Telstra modem Wi-Fi as I replaced the modem with a TP-link router (Er605) but they don’t have Wi-Fi. I connected this unit to a TP-link PoE switch (TL-SG2008P) to provide power to the unit. My other two units are using the PoE injectors that are included. I have my network managed using the Tp-link Omada controller and it was seamless, was able to easy firmware updates and configure SSID’s etc simply. I would recommend the units as they seem extremely stable and give very good coverage.

Es excelente el AP, facil de configurar, trae POE, tiene muy buen alcance y sigue estable con 30 dispositivos conectados, muy buen producto

Super efficasse