TP-Link Omada Walkthrough - GUI, Settings, VLANs, and my general thoughts

I recently did a home network upgrade for my friend using TP-Link's Omada line of products. Today I am going over the Omada system and its settings as seen from a home user's perspective.

0:00 Intro
1:08 TP-Link Omada
1:40 The GUI/Stats
7:09 Settings/Configuration
9:08 VLANs
14:15 Network Security
15:52 NAT/Routing
16:56 Bandwidth Control
18:09 VPN
19:48 Profiles
21:34 Services
22:55 Controller Settings
24:25 Final Thoughts

[BartFlossom]

Something "clicked" in my poor old brain while watching this. I was under the impression that I would need a second router in order to set up a sub-net; but this demo helped me understand the concept of VLAN--even though it's not a vlan tutorial. I've watched countless vlan tutorials in the past, but never really got my head around it until now. I guess I'm a slow learner, but something about Raid Owl's style works for me. 👍

[daichanlulu]

Thanks for this Raid Owl, I was able to help a small high school from a province to setup their own hotspot for students this walkthrough is very straightforward and helped me to do all the necessary configurations with my omada OC200 and EAP110

[Arun_]

The best video I have seen to understand what I needed .Thank you so much

[harrythehandyman]

9:55, does this option means enabling inter-vlan routing on the switch (assuming it is assigned to a port on the switch), thus, the traffic is routed by the switch instead of through the router?

[cbharis]

Question... So at 13:35 you blocked "iOT" from Main network.. At the bottom, you created the rule network to network.. Understood..

So does this mean that only info on the iOT network can NOT access the main network but the main network CAN access things on the iOT network?

So if I had a camera on my iOT netowork I wouldn't have to worry about traffic coming from the iOT network but I still could access it and configure the camera on the iOT network.
Wheeewww. I hope that makes sense lol.

[justinwills]

I just bought a bunch of this stuff a week ago. your omada controller and router firmware are a bit behind in firmware revisions. update your omada controller first through maintenance, then enable cloud access which will allow you to go to the device list and click the blue "check for updates" arrow on the versions field. I'm running omada 4.4.4 and router 1.1.1 firmware. when I check my vpn settings, at the top I have a seperate tab for "vpn user". hope that helps

[jasonflt]

came across you channel. ordered 2 AC1350's from amazon for $60 each. tired of these low end routers and need the bandwidth control because of my kids and vlan so they don't have access to my server etc etc. I'm excited for this step. I will order the rest of the equipment down the road, but will start small. good video. thanks

[kwkw]

I, currently, am using the 605 router with both my Starlink and my ISP. I'm looking to add a controller and access points in the near future.

[MichaelBurko]

Thanks for the video! Maybe a dumb question, but will the Omada switches/controller with a pfsense router?

[richardanthony]

Hey Raid Owl, great video thanks. I'm currently looking to upgrade my home network and i'm considering purchasing this system. A question I have is, can you add a paid vpn service (i.e. express vpn, nord ect) to either a vlan, or have it configured to hide all of your home network?

[gtag]

Does the OMADA products have an option to mirror ports ?

[victorslee]

Thanks for your excellent work. You make it very clear and I learnt a lot.

[jefil]

Let say you are not on the LAN, is it possible to remote configure the omada cloud controller? If so, how?

[alexneagoe]

thanks for the guide. great work.
regarding the acl rules, if the eap are wired to the switch, switch acl rules would apply. I have two switches and blocking vlan communications works like a charm with switch acl only. If an iot client is wired it would bypass eap acl rule! source: I have wired clients on my iot network (my smart tv)
ps: you need to uprade your controller firmware in order for OpenVPN to work. Your setup is good, upgrade firmware, export the certificate to your client and enjoy! just make sure to allocate a subnet that is not in use.

[Eyball]

Great video! I know I’m doing something wrong but when I check off VLAN in the wireless network settings and assign to a VLAN, devices won’t connect to it. If I uncheck VLAN devices then connect. I even assigned to default VLAN and still no connection. It’s just the EAP670 connected right to the ER605. Sure I’m missing something if you have any ideas. Appreciate the videos very helpful and well done. 👍

[mk-escapades]

This was very helpful, and i'm planning on replacing my FIOS router with the ER605 as well. I'm trying to figure out what else i want/need to change though, because i have 3 Netgear unmanaged switches around the house, and 1 Netgear access point as well. I am curious to see how the ER605 will see them all, and i was going to run the software controller because i have a server running 24x7. Do you have a recommendation on what's the best course of action on if i should replace the switches, or just see how it works once i get it rolled out?

[YugimanTeam]

TP Link Omada is pretty solid for a simple Prosumer setup where you want more security, ssid options, and want to implement POE instead of taking up power outlets.

Deploying it in my parents house because they have alot of power outages and the poe with a nice sized UPS will help solve alot of they're problems and give them more security.

My only issues with Omada are the way they implement Vlans compared to unifi and the lack of mDNS in they're ecosystem (at least so far)
The Vlans are restricted both ways as opposed to Unifi they are restricted one way which make casting to a chromecast or TV a nightmare.

[WiglobalITSupport]

while creating New lan can i select option Vlan only and create vlan eg 25 and trunk specific ports connected to access points to carry valn 25 and native vlan both?

[EmilePolka]

I usually deploy this stuff, minus their gateway, the OMADA management is great for easy management stuff for the managed switch and APs.

So when im creating new LAN I usually just go with "VLAN" as the purpose setting since setting it to interface assumes you have a OMADA compatible firewall/router.

[rymaralvero]

What omada soft conn version has an interface option in creating vlan?