TP-Link Omada WiFi 7 Wireless Access Point | BE11000 Tri-Band | 10G Port | Business Standard | Seamless Roaming | Easy Setup | 5-Year Warranty | Omada Remote Managed(EAP773)

I have over a dozen of these now serving clients and they are amazing. They are my go-to radio for all of my installs. Their range is awesome, the performance is incredible and the form factor is so much better than the radios this replaced.Really pleased what TP-Link has done here with their radios. It's crazy that these are both super easy to adopt into the Omada system and are really great at just being standalone Wifi radios.The ONLY design decision I often wonder about is for the ethernet to come out the top of the radio. For those of us who like things to look nice, when the TP-Link logo is right-side-up, the ethernet will come out the top of the device. In many cases, this means we need to do something special to have the cable route nicely and neatly. If they simply printed the logo upside down to what is now, that would make it way nicer looking in MANY wall-mount situations. (Yes I know it's a ceiling mount, but I often use this in both Ceiling and Wall mount configurations - the mounting bracket supports both options).

During long operation it DOES feel hot, but i haven't noticed any performance issues, so guess it's engineered to work under those conditions. One user who opened it saw there was no fan, so it's passively cooled.I came from a Ubiquiti ecosystem for managing unifi ap. So i wasn't sure what to expect for Omada. But i'm glad to report it worked quite well. I self host the omada controller via docker container on truenas via jailmaker. Works fine on the latest beta.The mobile app is also handy.You can manage this ap a few ways. Stand alone without any sort of controller, basically it's accessed via a webui in browser and also mobile app; Or cloud (which i'm not a fan of); or via controller (either hardware or self hosted software. i recommend the later). Out of these i recommend the controller because you get access fully to all options/features. 2nd recommandation is stand alone mode if you run a single ap and don't want to have any extra hardware running just to manage the ap.I couldn't test the wifi7. But wifi 6e and 6ghz works good.*updateSamsung S24 Ultra now properly supports wifi7 6ghz channel band, 320mhz width. So i ran some tests.5meters in direct line of sight, i got 1200-2000 Mbps@ 10-15meters with 1-2 walls between the ap and client device, it switches to 5ghz channel band. speeds were 300-350 mbpscoverage using a single ap should be able to handle a small 2 story home. But if you are expecting 1000-2000 Mbps using wif7 6ghz, 320mhz, then you need- multiple aps to spread them out in different rooms for direct line of sight (maybe change the rssi to a lower setting to account for using multiple aps). set them in Mesh mode.- have a client device that supports 6ghz 320mhz (my Samsung s24 ultra smartphone does)If you want speeds exceeding 2000 Mbps, the EAP-873 might be able to. But if you want something for 1000-2000 Mbps that doesn't cost as much, then EAP-773 is fine as your entry point into wifi7.

A little to pricy.The unit has all the full speed wifi 7 specs. , not cut down like some of the slower units. Including 4x antennas, mlo etc.It does run hotter than the older generations as expected.The unit is not picky about placement for a good signal.It does take a little effort to setup all the 3 bands plus MLO.Bottom line I went from wifi 5 (average 144 Mbs for all devices) to wifi 7 and 1700Mbs 1000% increaseI do expect to be faster later as I only have 2 antenna phones etc now.I do like that you can manage it through the cloud or app and buy a subscription etc. I only want the do the oldstyle browser management and this is much appreciated, Many routers and mesh systems today seem to force you touse the cloud or a phone. Not this one.Should be fairly future proofedOne of those rare purchases that is better than expected.

Do not buy these until TP-Link creates fully-functional firmware for this model.I had high hopes for these access points given good experiences with TP-Link switches and wanting a nicely integrated ecosystem. I selected this model because I have a bunch of 2.4 GHz webcams and this model has additional capacity on that band. Signs were initially encouraging as the access points were readily adopted into Omada and setting up SSIDs was straightforward.Unfortunately from there it was all downhill. The "lock to access point" feature didn't work properly (a deal breaker for me). Despite placing these APs in the exact same locations as their Unifi predecessors, signal strength was worse even on max power, roaming didn't work well, and phones were regularly getting one or two wifi "bars" instead of 3. Worst of all, even with the closest access point and signal north of -50dbm, the connection would drop as often as once every 5 minutes.Omada didn't show any available firmware updates. However on the website there was a firmware release dated April 2024 but released literally 2 days ago. This firmware update would not work through Omada even when supplying the downloaded file. I had to un-adopt each one, update firmware through its individual web interface, and re-adopt to get the new firmware loaded.I tried TP-Link chat support, but after waiting in the queue for over an hour with no response ... and finding very similar experiences to this on Reddit, I'm cutting my losses and returning these.

WiFi 7 that just works. Had to buy an injector, as 10G Omada POE switches are more expensive, while the injector allowed me to connect to existing 10G network. The size is fairly slim comparing to other TP-link WAPs I have.