where to buy Deco XE75 3 pack? Seems like all sold out x_x;

This post has been edited by Moogle Stiltzkin: May 15 2023, 07:31 PM

eh how come? any reason given?

There is an issue with omada controller (docker self hosted)

5.13 works but 5.14 doesn't for some of us.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TPLink_Omada/comme...ta_ga_does_not/

They said they are fixing this.

Also there is another bug in regards to 2fa qr code. Do not use the dark mode, because the QR code becomes invisible. They are working on a fix, so until they do, stick to the white background ui for omada.

if anyone wants to order EAP-773 (omada eco system), order via amazon website. It's HALF the price compared to shopee (yes that is also after calculating shipping and customs fee). No clue why.
https://www.tp-link.com/my/business-network...s-point/eap773/

I tested it, it works good (only tested wifi 6e 6ghz. Also tested for 2.4ghz to connect to yeelight iot led bulb which it did just fine. Could not connect to epson l3250 printer, no idea why)

If you check tplink firmware for it for malaysia site, it also uses the US firmware. So shouldn't be an issue? Only warranty might have issue if later have a problem

I checked the one i received was using the latest hardware revision. I don't know what they changed, just know that it was the latest

Also with a recent firmware update, you can now use it with poe+ and it will have full functional 6ghz with the blued led indicator. Whereas before the update, you were restricted to poe++ otherwise, if you tried poe+ it will turn an orange led to indicate 6ghz is no longer functional since not enough power. Not an issue anymore.


Last i checked, 1 unit of EAP-773 is same price roughly as that of a BE65 (BE11000) from shopee.


I bought a Samsung S24 Ultra, but could not test wifi7 with the ap. Because the phone has issue with wifi7 x-x; hopefully an update for the phone by next year roughly fixes it.

But using the omada controller web ui and mobile app, wifi 7 on the ap seems to be active. Just don't have a client device with wifi 7 to connect to it. Only wifi 6e 6ghz



the omada ap doesn't require registering a tplink account, or signing in using one. You can create a local account. You also aren't forced to add your email (although if later you need to change password you can't unless you hardware reset your device manually). You also don't need to enable cloud (though you can if you want to, but i don't see why you would).

Mobile app also doesn't need to register/sign in tplink. Just add your local account to sign in to the ap.

In the omada setting you can disable pinging tplink for checking new firmware. Then you can simply just check manually yourself when needed only. Not constantly pinging tplink.


I came from ubiquiti ecosystem. Might not be as beautiful as that, but functionally it's fine, also the ui isn't that bad looking. They also did a good job with their mobile app.

Ubiquiti's newer u7 pro max has a heat thing in their UI. You don't get anything like that in the omada web ui or mobile app

This post has been edited by Moogle Stiltzkin: Jul 22 2024, 02:16 PM

have u tried the asus zen wifi7 with afc?

can the wifi7 6ghz get as good a range as 5ghz using afc?

https://dongknows.com/asus-zenwifi-bq16-pro-review/


but yeah, wired networking to each mesh node would be ideal.

I'm just going by a single ap, but seems to do full coverage though it falls back to 5ghz to do so. 6ghz 320mhz in the same room as ap in direct line of sight is what works for me

wifi7 speed @ 2 meters , tplink omada EAP-773 to client S24 Ultra samsung.

previous test got up to 2000 Mbps. so it varies

either way it's more than the usual 1g speeds due to 1gbe ethernet nics

This post has been edited by Moogle Stiltzkin: Jan 22 2025, 08:39 AM

did anybody get MLO to work for wifi7?

i couldnt get it to work for my S24 Ultra client device.

wifi7 6ghz 320mhz works though. Just not MLO.

Using a EAP-773 tplink wifi 7 ap.

This post has been edited by Moogle Stiltzkin: May 2 2025, 08:07 AM

no point mocking me about this cauz im just like most users wouldnt know the exact details. im merely reporting my results

anyway based on ur comment, 773eap has working mlo, just not for smartphones is that right?

meaning for me to test mlo, id have to use a laptop or desktop pc with a wifi 7 card in it? is that right? that i dont have so i cant test, just checking


one guy claimed mlo worked at some point for his s24 ultra hence why i asked cauz i could not get it to work
https://www.reddit.com/r/GalaxyS24Ultra/com...fter_61_update/


tplink did post a guide how mlo is supposed to be configured on their ap
https://www.tp-link.com/my/support/faq/4019/


in this guide u had to untick the 6ghz, so i followed along but not work for me. i dont really understand the guide, why cant tick 6ghz, and why not using wpa3 (isnt that a must for wifi 7? isnt that what has mlo?)


I vaguely recall at some point i did have the MLO icon on my smartphone (or maybe i imagined cant remember), but i dont recall how to replicate that. In reddit the user claims an update botch mlo from working. So my guess was maybe something like that happened or my tplink setting was wrong. no idea



currently i switch between wifi7 6ghz and the 5ghz. short range 6ghz worked fine. at distance it degrade, the 5ghz worked reliably for me. was hoping if can get mlo to work, connection will remain consistent and dont have to juggle back and forth x-x; sometimes i just leave it at 5ghz and forget about it xd

This post has been edited by Moogle Stiltzkin: May 2 2025, 03:17 PM

oops. i just replied u missed it.



basically thats my situation.


as for why mlo


scroll to 6:40 mlo suppose to be a more stable consistent connection. thats the technical explanation i saw for the tech.



anyway from my wifi usage experience, on 5ghz, it just works i don't notice any issues. but as a techie just curious if it would work. supposedly i had the hardware for it, but couldnt get to work

This post has been edited by Moogle Stiltzkin: May 2 2025, 03:24 PM

not sure my settings correct or not.

i got 4 ssids.

1 is the 2.4/5/6ghz wifi7 with mlo enabled. this is for me to connect to private lan on wifi with wifi7 6ghz 320mhz. my yeelink iot doesnt work here because of one setting.

guest wifi. this one is 2.4/5ghz no mlo. yeelink iot works here. also my reolink.

then got 2 other wifi ssids. these i was testing settings trying to get mlo to work.




i had a weird issue, s24 ultra connect wifi, it goes to 2.4 for both the 1st and 2nd ssids. so i reboot ap, reboot phone, went next to the wireless ap, reconnect. the 1st ssid connects to wii7 6ghz 320 and sticks.

but the 2nd ssid is stuck in 2.4 and wont use 5ghz like last time.

i check my tplink omada settings, i toggle on the band steering to 5ghz or 6ghz preferred.

i check the samsung s24 ultra, but cant find any settings related to this.






the reolink supposedly works for 5ghz wifi. but the yeelink only works on 2.4ghz If not for these 2 devices id be using 5ghz or 6ghz all the time


overall ssids



guest wifi ssid (stuck on 2.4 cant go to 5ghz despite turning on band steering)



this is ap wifi settings. not using any mesh. just a single ap. but left it as is.






latest firmware for eap-773 (1.0.14)

tplink omada controller (hosted on truenas) v5.15.20.18 *latest last checked

Samsung S24 Ultra (one UI 7, latest)



OFDMA i disabled because i think it messed with yeelink or reolink to work.

This post has been edited by Moogle Stiltzkin: May 3 2025, 07:24 AM

Got mlo to work after figuring stuff out.

5ghz was not working when I set it to 240mhz.

I checked s24 ultra supports it, but what I'm unsure if it's supported in Malaysia.

Yet 6ghz @ 320 MHz works....

So not sure if 240mhz is non functional on the s24 ultra firmware for Malaysia model or something else. But I'm leaning toward this.

Regardless, once I set 5ghz to 160mhz which is the highest it could be set, 5ghz was working correctly.

For mlo u need 2 bands selected minimum.

I had 2.4, 5, 6 radios selected. I also had band steering 5/6 preferred set on the eap-773 AP.

Then I check using wifiman Android app on s24 ultra. It's simultaneously connected to both 5 and 6ghz.




I ran speed test on locally hosted speedtest.speed was ok but not big improvement. At this point ud be scratching ur head whether it's working or not.

It does, and here is the explanation



https://linustechtips.com/topic/1598146-mul...hz-experiences/


Which blacktubi also mentioned







So my real experience is a more stable connection, and not a speed boost (when testing at a distance with walls in between the ap and the client device).

For me this is fine. This was more Apparent when testing connected to wifi 7 at a distance with walls. Before connection is poor but with mlo it's more stable than before. Did do a speed test no improvement but it's still good enuff to watch Netflix, browse web etc aka functional.

Later when I go to main room where AP is, ur speeds r at its max speed. The main benefit I found for mlo is at a distance where signal may be weak and not so reliable.

To check mlo is active, just use wifiman it will show wifi speed factor mlo. And show u r connected to 2 bands simultaneously, mine was 5 and 6ghz. I also check in the Samsung wireless advance intelligence wifi. Run speed test then check there u can see it transitions from 6ghz to 5ghz to whichever works best. So that what mlo is doing in the background

So yes mlo works



*update

more testing. Omada > ap > config > advanced

i enabled OFDMA. if ur device supports it, leave it on for speed boost.






The reason i originally disabled, because it interfered with my yeelight or epson printer wifi from working properly. but i see u can toggle this PER radio. so if ur iot device use 2.4ghz, just disable only for that, but for the rest e.g. 5ghz and 6ghz u can just leave it enabled. I think that should be alright.

speed test after i made change


This post has been edited by Moogle Stiltzkin: May 5 2025, 09:54 AM

For reolink it can do 2.4 or 5ghz. But it will auto to 2.4 I found. But they updated firmware to force 5ghz. I thought band steering would make it connect to 5ghz but it doesn't. So have to set via the reolink mobile app for the doorbell

So if ur said has a few radios enabled, it can sometimes be hectic trying to connect to the radio u actually want, to the point u may rather make a ssid dedicated to the rather specifically to connect to it.

I just stuck to band steering, seems ok for now. Just thought mentioned this annoyance 😢

not really a tplink issue, more like that's how to set it up if u run into when trying to use with the reolink doorbell wifi.

This post has been edited by Moogle Stiltzkin: May 5 2025, 09:52 AM

Turned off band steering, didn't notice issues. It remains on 5ghz or 5/6. So good.

It seems for Samsung s24 ultra, the MLo only works using 2 band selected. If u pick 3 they said connection becomes unstable. Samsung acknowledged this. Not sure about other client devices.

Can 3 band be connected for mlo eventually? No idea

This post has been edited by Moogle Stiltzkin: May 10 2025, 10:33 AM

DO NOT use dlink
https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/d-li...ot-worth-saving

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/...th-newer-models

they have no regard for security patches. so why use them? u shouldnt.

i use pfsense (u can get security updates for many many years on the same hardware without upgrading UNLESS the hardware requirements for pfsense changes at some point which is rarely). the updates take longer, but u can simply use their package that can add patches that are released without waiting for the next pfsense update.

OR, there is even opnsense that has more frequent updates (this includes the security patches).

for tplink i dont know. but from what i see their ap mesh r good in performance and price. But i notice u can order cheaper off amazon and have it delivered to malaysia, CHEAPER than if u had ordered direct from shopee. why is that the case? no idea. But if u want to get a better deal, do a price comparison between amazon and shopee before u buy.

This post has been edited by Moogle Stiltzkin: May 11 2025, 02:59 PM

i checked the price, it's about rm 1k ish.



This post has been edited by Moogle Stiltzkin: Jun 24 2025, 05:52 AM