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

works as intended. set it up in the back yard and forget about it. stretches the entire yard which is nice.

My ultimate goal is to put this outside near the edge of our property to get a signal where it is now very weak. Currently the mesh network inside our house barely reaches the device I have out there and so it drops off regularly.Since it's quite cold out, for the time being I've done some other testing. Set up is quick and straightforward. I had it configured and working in under 15 minutes. I hooked it up indoors, in my computer room a couple feet away from my primary mesh node. I plugged it directly in to my switch, just like the mesh node. I then ran speedtest from my phone, once with the mesh network and once with the EAP110. The results were shocking! The EAP was getting 50 Mbs while the mesh network was getting 40 Mbps.I then went to different locations inside the house, in different rooms. We have two other mesh nodes in the house providing full coverage. To my phone, the signal from the EAP was as strong or stronger than the mesh signals in most locations.Being extremely happy with these results, I moved the EAP into my garage, and pointed one of the antennas in the direction of the device with the weak signal I was ultimately trying to reach. Again, the signal strength was stronger than what it had been receiving from the closest indoor mesh node. This should be good enough until the weather gets warmer and I can move it outdoors closer to the device and set it up as I intended.Also note, I'm using some bigger high gain antennas that I had.Update 6/2/2025So, after a year and a half, I finally moved it out of the garage to the outdoor location I had originally intended. I am even more impressed with it now, as the signal range I am getting across my ~4 acre property is astounding. If you have line of sight, you can go very far from it and still have a good signal and decent bandwidth. As you can see in my photos, the final location is atop my very old C-Band dish that I've repurposed as a huge monopod which has 2 Tapo cameras, an air quality monitor, and now the Omada Access Point. All of my cables, power, and network devices are in a weatherproof box buried at the base of the dish.Since these are so inexpensive, I just purchased another to install on the other side of our property so we can be bathed with a strong wifi signal no matter where we are outdoors.I couldn't be more happy with this device. The bang for the buck is off the charts. I may need to buy a third one, just to keep as a spare.

Ok, I was freaking out at first and was getting rather frustrated because the darn antenna would not power on. I checked other PoE devices and they all worked. I reached out to tech support and when I went back to check on things, the antenna had powered up and came online. I guess I simply wasn't waiting long enough. It was easily 5 minutes on my first attempts, but it was over 7 minutes when it finally worked.So at least on the first boot up, be patient. It will come online if you just leave it be.Router to the included PoE injector (because it has special power needs it can't be driven by a PoE switch). Then the PoE injector to the antenna. It is that simple.We are able to send text and pictures from well over 250 feet away. After that it gets to be hit or miss. But it will grab a connection here and there from almost 400 feet away and any pending WhatsApp or Messenger messages will go at that time.All in all, very happy.

I ordered this as an outside AP dedicated for my Christmas lights. They don't use a ton of data, so i figured the older 300Mbps spec would be fine.....IF....it ran at least @ 150 Mbps it would be fine. Wow was I disappointed.Let me start by saying this is a nice looking, decent to mount and compact AP. But it stops there. They include a POE injector, +1. but not any Ether net cables to connect between it and the switch/router. EVERYONE who sell a POE includes at least 1 short cable for this.Next up you have to download the Omada app to manage the AP. It has you create an account with TP-link, pretty common now adays. It then has you setup a Controller, "in the Cloud" Which I am not a fan of, but hey go with the flow. Get it setup only to find this device is not controllable /compatible with their cloud controller. So you then have to setup a Standalone controller locally on the app. This BTW has a LOT less features than the cloud management does.Lastly, It is up and running once You setup the normal AP stuff. I have about 32 clients connect to it right off. I had 51 in the end too and all worked on the AP no problem with one caveat. The only download at about 15Mbps. Doesn't matter if it has 1 device connect or all 50+ I had later it is exactly the same. I tried every setting adjustment I could and NOTHING changes it.I worked in IT as a Network administer for 20+ years, so i know my networking stuff. This thing is a piece of crap.Avoid like the plague.