Zyxel WiFi 7 BE12300 Wireless Dual-Radio Access Point | 2 x 2.5G Ethernet | PoE+ or USB Type C Powered (not Included) | Cloud, App or Direct Management [NWA210BE]

We're using it in a small home, and it reaches where we need it. The handful of Wi-Fi 7 devices we have seem to like it; the older devices also perform well. It works great with VLANs, allowing you to segment your network appropriately if your router supports that. The passthrough port does not support Jumbo Frames, I learned that the hard way, but both ports, uplink and the extra, are 2.5 gbe, and with a POE switch or injector, it makes for a clean installation. If you use the Nebula cloud, it offers a quick setup, and it also supports local administration. The range was better than expected, there's one small corner at the opposite side of the house where some devices can't decide if they want to try high speed or just a solid connection and they sometimes drop a few times while they figure it out, but that seems to be device-side programming because if you pick an SSID that only has 2.4 Ghz it pops right on. Compatibility, this has been great on this AP, but a massive issue for us in the past, from cars and other IoT to laptops, tablets, and phones we'd often get a complaint from a device, none have done that yet after I figured out the downstream port doesn't do jumbo frames (blocking a resource many of my devices needed) and fixed it. We run fewer than 100 devices, but in that vicinity on it in our house, and I'd feel comfortable deploying this in a small office, probably in a 3-pack. I wish they had these when I worked at a small-town MSP.

Best ap I have ever used...speeds are highest I have seen. Supports many clients...very nice product. To add I have used home routers as AP's for many years now because they provided the best speeds. This purpose built AP is better than any of those I have used so far and the price is amazing compared to all the new 500 dollar plus routers coming out. This AP runs all my stuff with no issues every different standard. You can have SSID's for each standard and for each vlan you want it's so nice. The RF is strong and goes far I can't say enough about this product. it's impressive.

**update 9/19/25 Does not seem to support wifi-7 even though it is advertised as supporting. Multiple clients are also connected to the access points and they do not show as clients in the software as connected. Wi-Fi speeds will drop off if you’re not in the same room. Same room speeds are great; however, you will have random disconnects even when in the same room. Looking at the log reports, the reasons will vary. Some occur every day at the same time and the reason given is simply Netconf connection is disconnected. Luckily, the reporting aspect is great on this, it really can be useful to see what’s going on with your network and devices. A lot of information can be obtained from the free tier of access. While that can be expected for devices like this, certain things like exporting a report require a paid license. Which is silly IMO. The iphone app is dismal and very limited in what you can do with it. I rarely use the app as a result. You will need to go to the website to really do anything of value for settings aside from obtaining basic information. The website can be a little difficult to figure out as figuring out at first. Once you get the general understanding it’s very informative. It will tell you everything you need to know about the network, devices. If you do not know much about Wi-Fi or networking, I would suggest you research what terms mean before you go change random settings here. The site does a good job of offering help as to what things mean or do as well. I would never consider this brand a professional setting; it struggles in a home environment with around 20 devices. If I wasn’t past my return window I would ship it back.

This seems to be a good AP, essentially a highly flexible, enterprise grade AP at a home price. I had no problem setting them up in Nebula. It took longer to setup my account and org than to setup the first SSID and AP. Nebula is a bit clumsy about how it logs in - it doesn't adjust well to small screens - I have to use my tablet (10.3") to see the button to add the AP. I know that a lot of people complain about no power supply - read the description - you have no reason to complain. For the record, an enterprise AP doesn't come with a power supply either. You can use any 12v 2a power supply from the hundreds that are all over Amazon or get a power injector. My next steps are to add an SSID just for IoT devices, VLANs to isolate my IoT network, and LAG to use both LAN ports. From there, I will just play, especially in the local web and command line interfaces. To hit the tags: Signal Strength is good (please note that 6GHz penetration of walls is worse than 5GHz - not Zyxel's problem at all), reliability is good so far, and the speed is certainly good (my ISP is the bottle neck, but I can get speeds FAR better than my old Wi-Fi 5 Orbi. Maybe I will set up iPerf and see what I get internal to my network). Overall... it's an easy decision... buy it. UPDATE: Works great with the POE+ injector from Zyxel.

There is another review here saying this unit only supports WiFi 6; that is false. I can confirm this unit produces WiFi 7 802.11be which I was able to connect to with WiFi 7 clients. It works fine. It has 2.4ghz 5ghz and 6ghz radios, all of which work well. Speeds are as expected. The unit is nice looking. 2.5gbe Ethernet ports are nice. The ap has two ways to set it up, cloud based and local administration web GUI. I choose local and it was fairly rough. It's a perfectly serviceable GUI but you really need to know what you're doing and it does not hold your hand at all. I can't comment on nebula cloud. Either way, this isn't a consumer device. That's why they expect you to power it with poe and as a result it does not come with a 12v power adapter. I had to buy one separately which was fine. This is an enterprise device that consumers can use if they are savvy to get cheap Wi-Fi 7. It's great for what it is, just realize what it is

This has a lot of capability, but it helps to be knowledgeable about networking to use it to its full capabilities. Located it in the center of the house and it is able to support everything.

Was looking for a low cost but good WiFi 7 AP so I wouldn't have to replace it anytime soon. A post online got me looking at Zytel because it supports VLANs, and the prices were much lower than Asus Merlin/the x86 OpenWRT box I as thinking of building out. Setup was a breeze, I just plugged into a 1g PoE+ port, and it instantly powered on and pulled an IP via DHCPv4! This supports 8x SSID's that you can apply to any/all radios and map to any VLAN, 8x Security Profiles that you can apply to any/all SSID profiles. This also supports 2.5g Ethernet and WiFi 7 (for when I have 2.5g PoE+ ports and WiFi7 devices). I run OPNsense for a router, with a couple ICX7250 48-port 1g+8x10g switches w/PoE+. I also dual-wan (ATT Fiber: 500/500@5-7ms & Spectrum Cable: 1000/35 @ 35-45ms) and do heavy traffic shaping to reduce bufferbloat. A speed test from phone w/WiFi-6E gave me 865mbps w/same ping as if I was wired in to a gigabit port. I am extremely happy with my purchase. My only gripe, and this is a minor one, is my LAN is IPv6 on a site-local IP range fd00::0/112, and the AP won't configure it's management address for a site-local IP range. Like I said, minor gripe because I can just manage it via an IPv4 address, obviously layer 2 is working so DHCPv6 from the router works perfectly through the AP to the clients. I'm giving this 5-stars. This is my first Zyxel product and it took me half an hour to setup and update to the latest firmware. For a SOHO environment, just buy this.

Let me start by saying I used to do network hardware installs for a living just 3 years ago. My AP died and I needed to replace it, so I decided to give this one a try based purely on price. That was my first mistake. I set it up prior to installation (as everyone should do). Sitting 3-4 feet away from it I started the frustrating and pointless journey of setting this up. When you power it on you are supposed to look for the default Zyxel SSID and connect to it. It never showed up in any network scans. I manually assigned an IP to it and connected over LAN instead. I signed in and did a firmware update. After the update I signed back in and went through the initial setup wizard. I completed the wizard and looked for the new SSID, not there. I ensured it had no schedule, it was not hidden, no tags, etc. Nothing. I created a schedule to run 24/7 and still nothing. I created a second SSID and still nothing. I created just a WiFi 6 SSID and nothing. I tried manually adding the network to my device and it could not find the AP to try and connect. I tried turning it off and back on again (complete with the "Hello IT" in an Irish accent prior to doing so) and still no SSIDs appeared. This thing is utterly useless. The support forums are no help. Every answer is just a copy/paste of the setup guide with no troubleshooting at all. Not worth the headache of trying to get this up and working or fighting with the "barely there" support team. I am just replacing it with a more reputable brand.