WiFi 7 Access Points - Awesome experience but you need good hardware EAP773

In this video we share with you the experience we had with the WiFi 7 access point the EAP773 from TP Link and its Omada series of hardware.
Few aspects to consider and the most important ones, the hardware you need, as may be beyond the hardware many companies still have. not to talk about home networking. However as Internet speeds have surpassed 1 Gbps WiFi 7 is more than welcome.
Much of the hardware to support concurrent WiFi 7 APs is coming and fast.

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EAP773 Access Point (Omada Series)
Internal WiFi BE200 adapter for desktops (intel chipset)
Internal WiFi BE200 adapter for laptops (intel chipset):
Unifi Switch XG 6 PoE
TP-Link TL-SL105 10 Gbps switch

[itpugil]

Thanks for the tip regarding device and switch compatibility regarding POE, POE+ and POE++ standards!

[peterlai]

Please share an internal iperf3 with wireless or a 10gbps server instead to measure actual bandwidth the eap783 can hit.

[AinzOoalGwn]

u can self host the omada controller using docker.

but i read on reddit, omada is more susceptible compared to ubiquiti aps, if you disable controller, the ap itselfs wifi might also go down depending on your setup. so if you want wifi to be up, have to make sure your controller is also up.

like you said poe+ should be sufficient to power this eap-773, but 6GHz will be affected. Hence you will want to be sure you can do poe++ if not at least have the appropriate injector if you don't have a poe++ switch.

If you still insist on poe+ then perhaps a Ubiquiti U7 Pro would be a better choice since that uses poe+ The trade of though, is that the U7 Pro is limited to 2.5gbe ports, whereas the EAP-773 has 10gbe port. The EAP is only 2x2 so it won't be as good as the 783 which is 4x4

[AinzOoalGwn]

There is an issue with omada controller.

some of us can't get the latest controller update for docker, since it fails to boot and crashes. But the previous version worked.

Other than that, i've been having a good experience with the eap-773 though i still don't have a working wifi7 client to test it with yet :(

[IdnanMisalmi]

How do we add a new AP to the existing setup? The IT guy left the company, and we want to add one more AP. He mentioned it's a mesh network, and it should automatically pick up the configuration from the master AP, but that's not happening. When I plug it into the switch, it's not adopting the configuration and is still on its default open SSID TPLINK OMADA AX3000

[AinzOoalGwn]

Just got my eap-773

Tried testing with Samsung S24 Ultra but it caps at wifi 6e. I think the issue is on the samsung end. Though their specs show it as wifi 7, their cs say it's in reality wifi 6e. They don't explain why that is or whether wifi 7 will be added to it through a firmware upgrade (considering the snapdragon chip supports wifi 7). Basically they are just leaving users in the dark.

So i cannot help compare my wifi7 results with you since that is the only client i have that was suppose to have it :{

did test the controller self hosted and mobile app, those things worked.

I also got 320 MHz to work since that's what is shown in wifiman.

[AinzOoalGwn]

in your test i saw it showed wifi6 when connecting to the ap. so the limiting factor was your client didn't support wifi7 so it couldn't get the most out of it.

but later in the video you showed a laptop with wifi7. I'm assuming it supported 320 MHz? for power did you have poe++? if not that would impact the performance.

based on your results you didn't even break 2.5gbe speeds. how far was your client from the ap? If your video included comparisons for distance of client from the ap as measurement, and other tests like wall penetration through walls in a different room, that would also improve your video benchmarks for this :}

[AlejandroDiaz-gfmg]

Omada Wifi7 EAPs no longer need PoE++ after the latest firmware update. PoE+ will suffice.

[AinzOoalGwn]

You should probly link the MSI wifi7 pcie adapter because that uses the qualcom chip which works for amd. That said if i am not mistaken, windows 11 doesn't yet support wifi7? so if you install the wifi7 pcie adapter, it will be stuck at wifi6e speeds ya?