TP-Link EAP245 V3 | Omada AC1750 Gigabit Wireless Access Point | Business WiFi Solution w/Mesh Support, Seamless Roaming & MU-MIMO | PoE Powered | SDN Integrated | Cloud Access & Omada App | White

To start, I am a network engineer with many years of experience in the high-tech industry. I’ve managed many enterprise wireless solutions (meraki, xirrus, ruckus, ubiquiti, Cisco). I started buying 2 of these EAP245’s and added a 3rd because I was so happy with the value of this unit. 3 of these units handles 40 clients (about 30 home automation devices) and 10 newer laptops/iPhones. I have gigabit internet and this install is in a 2700 sq. Ft home. Previously, I was running 2x TM-AC1900 (had terrible dark spots in the house, frequently had to disconnect and reconnect to connect to different AP’s) Pros: - Form factor — no big antennas poking off, Easily mounts to wall or ceiling. - Speed and Signal — excellent speed and signal. See screenshot. - Omada — once it’s setup, the controller software is really quite excellent. I would not run these in an enterprise but for a small business or an insanely powerful home solution, this is a great solution. Adding new AP’s is incredibly simple. Configuration is simple and the analytics/reporting is actually fairly impressive. - Advanced features — a large reason I chose this unit is the 802.1r functionality. This allows seamless roaming. No disconnection when walking through the house, great for WiFi calls. The Omada controller gives you great visibility into channel utilization. Cons: - Limited advances features — Frankly, for what I need to do in the house, the current feature set works perfectly. The only feature I wish the controller had is an “auto signal adjustment” feature. - Potentially misleading marketing — this is probably my own dumb fault but I did not realize that having the controller on the LAN was required to have centralized management. I mistakenly assumed the “cloud controller” was a phone-home / cloud-based solution provided by TP-Link. You must run the controller (either the OC200 device or the Omada controller). The “cloud controller” is simply the ability to access your controller remotely when you are outside of the network. Notes: - I battled setting up Omada for a few hours (again, I am a very technically inclined person). I’m running the Omada software in Docker on a Centos7 server. I can’t fault TP-Link for this as “firewalld” was preventing the Java app from correctly listening on my servers network interface. Takeaway: Overall, the EAP-245 is an amazing little access point. The low price point of the AP and quality of the business grade controller makes this a very robust home WiFi solution.

I bought the AC1750 two pack to extend the wireless signal through out my house. My current tri-band router which is in the basement just wasn't giving good signal on the second floor and with two of us working from home it was becoming an issue. I installed one of these in the basement below the living room and the other in the hall on the second floor. I used the Omada software (free to download) on an existing media server. Setup was painless one time through to put in all of the SSID's, passwords and make a group. Then just add the AP's to the group and you are done. Very easy. They have been in use for two weeks now. Streaming video, WiFi calling, video conferencing, and your standard internet fare all work flawlessly. No bandwidth issues what so ever with two people using five device and streaming audio. Signal strength is very good. I get a connection in my garage which is over 50' away from the house. Granted the speed is slower but that's to be expected at that range with brick walls between. Speed within the house itself is stellar with device speeds coming higher than my better rated tri-band router. I have installed and supported AP's from Zyxel, Netgear, Ubiquiti, and Cisco. These TP-link Omada AP's are easily some of the best I have worked with to date. Highly recommend.

I bought two for my two-story house, but one covers it and would've been sufficient. It's pretty near to have full signal just about everywhere though, including the immediate surrounds of the house. Although the instructions recommend only using the Omada Controller software for large installations, I find it worth using even for my house... It's neat to see the combined stats for the APs, plus it makes it easier if your configuration is complex. I found a Dockerized version of the software on Docker Hub and tried setting it up in Kubernetes and then using docker-compose, but there were a couple of problems: Its internal database didn't get initialized properly, which made the startup fail, and the AP discovery didn't work because the they were on a different subnets compared to the controller. While both surely are solvable, it was a chore with lots of ports to be forwarded and special DHCP configuration to advertise the location of the controller. After wasting a couple of hours on that, I gave up and installed the software on a dedicated Ubuntu VM. It has been running flawlessly ever since. The VLAN tagging feature is handy for dividing the wifi network, being able to separate IoT and guest devices from internal devices. It works smoothly with the VLAN feaures in my OpnSense firewall/router.

I am and IT consultant. I put APs in all the time. I used to use Engenius but they dropped phone support. If you are a vendor and you have no phone support you don't have me. I tried the tplink waps and was surprised. I like them due to their integrated interface and their simplicity and their gigabit poe network interface. They are also quite hardy. I have not had one die yet (knocking on wood). So to summarize: Excellent Price Point, Excellent device performance, phone support if you need it but after you install one or two of these, you will not need a lot of support unless the device goes bad. If you need a good indoor wap, you will not go wrong by purchasing one of these guys.

Having used consumer grade equipment with all the bells and whistles, I found that they were unreliable. Works for awhile then one day, it doesn't work requiring a power cycle or several power cycles to get it to work again. This is a business class equipment that once installed, continues to work all the time. A POE adaptor was provided with this item so there's no need to buy one if u don't have a POE switch.

Excelente producto y cumplió con todas mis expectativas!!!

I am using this EAP245 Access Point with a TP-Link ER605V2 router and a TP-Link GS1016DE (non Omada) switch with multiple VLAN’s in a home network. I am using local setup without a controller and the EAP245 is straight forward and intuitive to setup. (A controller is required for multiple units in a mesh, but with the central location in my home the one unit seems fine for now.) The VLAN capability was a necessity for me and this unit gets it right. - supports VLAN (can have multiple SSID's each with a unique VLAN or frequency tying into a 'trunk' port on the switch. -can be easily set up locally without controller - centrally located covers 3000 sq feet plus basement (had on table in basement facing up, now on ceiling main floor facing down both with good coverage throughout. When located in office a one end of house a second may be required.) - guest mode to isolate peers -can be wall or ceiling mounted -no advertising or other bloatware -comes with POE power adapter - with my old router the doorbell cam or thermostat would drop out but so far all IOT devices are working flawlessly - I wish the footprint was a bit smaller. I have had some reservations about some other TP-Link products due to support and forum issues, but after six weeks of using this unit I am very happy with the performance and setup. -

I added this unit to my house Wi-Fi, linked to an Omada hardware controller. Very pleased with the performance and the ease of install and config using the controller. I have 3 of the EAP225 but added this unit upstairs since the kids moved back home and both working from home upstairs

I got 3 of them with the wireless manager. Automatically found and set-up said also Automatically set each AP to a 1,6,11 ch.