Hi all, sick of the deco app… I recently built a Topton box with OPNsense, adguard, wireguard vpn, crowdsec etc to be my primary router and moved my decos (1x BE65 and 2x X95) to be wifi AP only with wired backhaul.

Now, I’d like to just move on from them and go for a ceiling mounted AP.

I’d like to have the same SSID across my 3 AP consisting of a primary network (combined 5G and 2.4G on same ssid)for my household devices, but also a legacy/IoT network which is 2.4G only ona seperate SSID.

What model AP am I looking at in the omada range?

Thanks

While updating devices (all Omada gateway, switches, AP) I noticed that my Tapo camera was suddenly detected by the Tapo app. Only briefly and then it's been offline since. I have a few VLANs with ACLs to isolate and protect each of them. The Tapo app has never worked properly across VLANs which is its own annoying problem, but I work around it.

What happens to ACLs during device updates? Are my VLANs unprotected during that time? If so, is there a safer or better way to perform updates?

Hi there,

I recently got an ER605 Omada and have used it in a small portion of my network for real-world testing and setup purposes.

So far things are going fine, but there is one thing that will not work. It is a streaming app of a TV station available on several platforms, in my case GoogleTV. I know this app, even though it is the official app of a real TV station, is often seen dubiously and causes trouble. I guess this might be because it kind of is an i.p.t.v. service and it's from a country that is admittedly not famous for... well... clean business.

I know that currently/before this issue was solved by issuing a static IP to the device and setting up a rule in the router (a Sophos unit, no idea what model) that does not apply any filters to traffic to/from that local IP. This would seem obvious as the Sophos router is a commercial device that blocks various types of content in its default configuration.

My question now is whether or not the ER605 has any filters active by default as well? I have checked through, I think, all of the management and cannot find anything that would suggest the presence of any default filters. But the behavior of the device, i.e. its inability to connect to that service when everything else (so far) works fine, suggests that there is some sort of filtering going on.
If yes, any advice on how to disable the filters or any other suitable workaround?

Any help is greatly appreciated!
Thanks very much in advance!

Hello there,

How do you manage to see live logs for a clients which have some issues connecting to the SSID? How am I able to see MGMT frames like its possible to see from particular AP on Ubiquiti where I just log to AP then put tail command for /var/logs... etc where I can See what is going on - LIVE. Is it possible to achieve it on TPlink?

Currently I have the ER806 gateway and need one for a high speed 5 gig broadband. Don’t want SPF as we are unable to access the box.

I have looked but as far as I can see Omada doesn’t have a 5 or 10 gig Ethernet gateway. The fusion range seems to be only spf.

Am I missing something. I want to put my nas on a higher speed setup as well as my tv. Other than that, the rest of my Omada setup will be fine

Some IOT's of 2.4 fail to connect with the Omada EAP's . My config is the OC200 controller , ER7206 , and 8 EAP's of 650,245,225 and 110 , spread around my home . Three floors , brick walls , concrete floors total about 5600sq ft . There are few devices on 5Ghz (laptops, mobiles, iPads ). All Media centers are connected by ethernet and all EAP's have ethernet backhauls. When I try to connect the errant 2.4 IOT's with my old router (Asus RT87 ) it is immediate. The security is WPA/WPA2-PSK/AES (tried the others WPA , WPA2) all extra's like band steering ,802.11r, PMF disabled. Separate SSID for 2.4 and 5 .I have a zigbee2mqtt setup with 50+ devices - Perfect .Any guidelines are welcome.

Hi.

I'm in the UK with a large communal property that might as well be a 30 person office, and I want to merge 3 internet lines into my new Er707-m2, but the internet enters the property on old openreach MK4 units so I believe they need to go through a modern first. Unfortunately, I'm with BT on those lines and their super hubs don't have a pass through/bridge function, so I'm looking for the best way to convert those signals into something my router will accept without double routering (as I believe this causes issues?).

From what I can gather, some cheap second hand modems would do the trick, especially as the lines I'm dealing with are only 70mbps each. That's still £100 in extra costs, and also a fairly bulky set up. Has anyone got a clean solution to this?

Fibre is not in my area, but the other option is to save the £100 and use it towards splashing out on business fibre which I CAN get installed and just have the single fibre line on my tplink set up and keep the current 3 seperate router system I have as an ancillary system until those contracts expire. I suppose in that system, the 707 is overkill, as I wouldn't be doing any load balancing, but I've already bought it so whatever.

Wondering if anyone had any suggestions about the above. Cheers!

After spending way too many hours troubleshooting my home network, I wanted to share what finally worked in case it helps someone else.

My setup:

• Spectrum Gigabit (Primary)
• 2x T-Mobile Home Internet connections (Backup)
• Omada Controller
• ER605 v2 (soon upgrading to an ER707-M2)
• Home Assistant, Node-RED, dozens of IoT devices, cameras, etc.

Like many people, my first thought was:

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In practice...that caused more headaches than it solved.

The problems I kept seeing

• Random browsing quirks
• Existing sessions behaving strangely when WANs changed
• The Omada Controller occasionally becoming unreachable during failover
• Devices that didn't like their outbound IP changing
• Home Assistant integrations acting inconsistently

Nothing was "broken," but everything felt unpredictable.

What I changed

Instead of relying on Load Balancing and Link Backup, I rebuilt the network around:

• VLANs
• Policy Routing
• Static device placement

Now each group of devices uses the WAN that makes the most sense.

Examples:

• Home devices → Spectrum
• IoT devices → Dedicated WAN
• Kids VLAN → Separate policy
• Management traffic → Controlled independently

Instead of asking the router to constantly decide where traffic should go, I tell it exactly where each type of traffic belongs.

The result

The difference has honestly been night and day.

• Browsing is consistently fast.
• My Omada Controller no longer disappears during ISP events.
• Home Assistant has become much more reliable.
• IoT devices stay on the same ISP instead of unexpectedly switching.
• Failover behavior is far more predictable because only the devices I want to move actually move.

Even while Spectrum has continued having occasional issues, the network itself has remained stable.

My takeaway

Load Balancing and Link Backup are great features, but I think many home users immediately enable them because they assume "more WANs = more balancing."

In reality, if your goal is stability rather than squeezing every last Mbps from multiple ISPs, a design centered around VLANs and Policy Routing may produce a much better experience.

You're trading dynamic routing decisions for deterministic ones.

For me, that has made all the difference.

I'm curious if anyone else has gone down this path. Has anyone else moved away from traditional Multi-WAN Load Balancing in favor of Policy Routing?

I have my all my equipment on a weekly reboot schedule. My APs seem to take different amounts of time to reboot. Because of this all my devices seem to connect to the first AP to reboot and then hold that connection even though the signal is poor.
Is there a way to schedule all the APs to force reconnect all clients? I could schedule this for 30 mins after my reboot schedule and then everything would connect to the closest AP.
I can’t seem to find this as an option in the controller.

I changed the uplink from 610 to 650

New devices work but all previous AP's 225 won't connect to the new uplink

For testing I have the new and old running and the 225 can't even see the 650

Reset, reboot nothing working it seems bound to the older 610

Any thing to check would be appreciated

This is probably a dumb question but I'm new to the omada system. If I wanted to have a failover system do I need to buy an omada router?

Currently only using starlink but at some point (hopefully soon) will get fiber and plan to have starlink as backup.

Current system has an omada controller with SG2428LP switch and 4 access points (3 EAP770 and 1 EAP772)

Thanks in advance for your help!

Hi. First, I'm just a newbie IT person who is tasked to set up our network with two ISPs using Omada ER706W as a stand alone router. Second, sorry for my english.

Here's the set up:

First ISP: their modem is edgecore network ecs4100-12T, fiber connected, and with its own ip address (210.4.x.xxx), subnet, etc.. We have an enterprise contract with this ISP, meaning each connected device has their own dedicated 25Mbps.

Second ISP: Skyworth router, fiber connected, with 600Mbos plan

These two ISPs are connected to ER706W. I configured the ports to have two WANs. Then ER706W is lined to switch (D-Link DES1016A)

What I did so far:

Since I'm using omada as a stand alone router, I configure it through its IP in web.

First ISP: I use static IP as connection type and I put all the needed infos (ip, subnet, default gateway, etc) since when using dynamic on both ISP won't establish connection

Second ISP: Dynamic ISP

On Load Balancing: I turned on load balancing, turned off link back up. Both connections are online in Online Detection

My problems (and the ones that I gave up googling):

We should have our dedicated 25Mbps on our PC (Ethernet connected) and use ISP 2 as our Wi-Fi (or back up connection if ISP 1 got issues)

Biometrics and CCTV should use ISP 1, printers to ISP 2

We only have 20-80Mbps of connection and most of the time, high pings (what I think is we share the connection speed).

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I need help and suggestions, and I'm open to constructive criticisms. This is hard for me since I'm new to this kind of set up. Thank you much!

Anyone can confirm what LInux Kernel version is used in the recent Omada Gateways? Last time I checked TP-Link was still using something like 3.10.x...

I am tired of all of the home networking junk and was going pro-sumer, but with the setup I know I need a hardware controller and a poe switch to run the access points, but is the VPN router needed in the system. I do not have a static IP address and do not really have the need to pay for a dynDNS. I have no real need to access devices on the network remotely so I do not need a VPN. What I can’t figure out is if this is actually the router on the network or if the hardware controller is. Thanks for the clarification!