TP Link Omada and Unifi compared

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⏱️ Timestamps ⏱️
0:00 TP Link Omada VS UniFi SDN
1:08 Product Offerings
2:49 Free SDN Software UnIFi and Omada
4:07 Multisite Hosting
5:16 Wireless Management
5:40 VLAN Management
7:30 TP Link VS UniFi Adoption Processes Differences
10:30 UnFi & TP Link Omada Firewalls
13:18 Final thoughts

#TPlink #TPLinkOMADA #UniFi

[NCHLAS]

“Their firewall is just as bad as UniFi.”

I love the honesty lol.

[JordosTechShack]

I have a 5+ year old N300 outdoor TP-Link A that predates the Omada name, (EAP110), mixed in with newer AC1350 stuff in the house, and it still works great. I also have a bunch of small businesses running them for years, and I am about to do a 6 AP system for a scrap yard, with 2x TP-Link PHarOS 5gz CPE site to site link to there second location three lots down. Never had an issue, never had to replace an AP, but I've replaced a few Unifi APs and power injectors over the years, but I also have done allot more Unifi installs. I've only used there firewall once and that was just for a restate agent with two APS and really just needed a router, no especial rules.

[-Yogo]

Hopefully ubiquiti will get its sh** together now that there is a viable competitor on the market

[mikhailkhatuntcov]

Thanks for the overview. Please keep us informed about Ubiquity alternatives!

[JaguarInfinity]

Thanks for covering this. As a home user looking to fit out a new home in in the next 6 - 12 months with a reliable home network for POE cameras, 2.5g networking, Wifi APs and smart home systems this video and the previous one covering Omada have really helped me.

[scottmorris]

I have used TP-Link, with their hardware controller. It works great. The controller has save me in make a mistake on the PoE switch. In terms of Firewall, I went with Untangle.

[jrbilasa]

There is actually a "Show All" option on the list of devices that shows a bit more. I think you missed that one

[LAWRENCESYSTEMS]

⏱️ Timestamps ⏱️
0:00 TP Link Omada VS UniFi SDN
1:08 Product Offerings
2:49 Free SDN Software UnIFi and Omada
4:07 Multisite Hosting
5:16 Wireless Management
5:40 VLAN Management
7:30 TP Link VS UniFi Adoption Processes Differences
10:30 UnFi & TP Link Omada Firewalls
13:18 Final thoughts

[mnoble]

I have a manufacturing space, 32K sq foot, 12 AP's (4 eap 225 in the office, 8 eap615 on wall). 72 wired ports with PoE. The 605 FW, and OC200.

The recently released controller 5.X software clearly shows their intentions to move it up market. They now have auto channel planning for the RF space and since I do a lot of NAC, their support for Private PSK is awesome.

QoS, IGMP, box to box and client VPN also.

I 100% cannot complain but do agree the security track record is unknown for them.

[MactelecomNetworks]

Great video Tom. I haven’t done large scale for tp-link just a few homes which it works well

[paulantoine]

I've now had TP-Link EAP245 WiFi APs, with an Omada OC200 controller, for some 3 years. They have been reliable and solved all of my issues with the various consumer grade wifi routers I had struggled with for year. And TP-Link do this for a very affordable price for the geeky home/homelab crowd. I steered clear of the TP-Link firewall and built my own pfSense router instead and have been delighted with performance of the combined system.

[laurieg]

We use DNS or DHCP options on the remote network that point the devices to our Omada controller. We set this up remotely and it’s literally plug and play on the remote network.

[ShaunMcCloud]

I just replaced my UniFi AP AC Lite with a TP-Link Omada EAC225 because the UniFi was dying (running really really hot and some of my IOT stuff wasn't working right). So far it's been good, other than my old MacBook Pro taking down my wifi for my Roku.

[manesha]

I have their APs running on 3x production sites. 3xAPs on 2 sites and 5xAPs on one site. Multiple SSIDs seperated by VLANs. One site also has a captive portal active. Haven't had any issues reported with WiFi for over a year of this running. Extremely easy to setup and manage.

[billschrimpf]

Thanks for the video - Great primer on Omada. Can you do a review on Omada wifi devices that support mesh?

[jamesford]

Thanks for finally being clear about why you don't recommend using Unifi's and now TP Links firewalls. Please remember to say this whenever you make that statement. I say this because if a home user (not a super techie) is watching your videos for the first time, they may not choose Unifi or TP-Link because of your firewall statement. They may think they have to have a separate firewall device which may be adding a level of complexity they don't want to deal with.

[aaroncheatwood]

@Lawrence Systems, you should update this one with the newer TP Link V5 Firmwares...

[originalradman]

I would love to know how well these work in a very noisy / congested environment. I ended up seeking out Ubiquiti originally for a home environment with substantial crosstalk from dozens of routers in range of my home. With new cable/DSL modems and TV services all running on wireless and "auto" channel selection, users running additional routers without disabling wifi on their ISP devices as well as unnecessarily utilizing the widest channel settings available... my area may as well be a wifi noise testing lab. My current setup (smallish house with 2x HD nano at opposite ends on different floors - with on site PI controller and PFsense firewall) has worked very well. The range and speed isn't quite as fast as the consumer products before it - however the stability and reliability IS.

[JimBronson]

The only reason to use the Unifi security gateways is for the full traffic breakout in the management GUI. You're going to want to put something in front of it that actually has useful security features and updates. I personally like a small Palo PA-220 or Fortinet 40F between the Unifi gateway and the WAN interfaces. That way all the Unifi features work but you get a real enterprise class firewall between Unifi and the internets.

[yuraymarstewart]

What was your setup for your home? What models?