First Look at the TP-Link Omada EAP615-Wall Access Point | Wifi 6 | PoE+ | AX1800 | Not A Review

In this video we configure the in wall access points and also do some basic speed test with the factory settings. The EAP 615s do a pretty good job with Wi-Fi coverage and I was pretty impressed with them. It gives me the itch to want to pick up Ubiquiti's version of these.
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* Superior WiFi 6 Speeds: Simultaneous 574 Mbps on 2.4 GHz and 1201 Mbps on 5 GHz totals 1775 Mbps Wi-Fi speeds.**
* High-Performance Connectivity: Guarantee higher network efficiency and lower latency. Four Gigabit Ports: 4 Gigabit Ethernet ports (1× uplink + 3× downlink), with one downlink port supporting PoE pass-through to provide power for wired device.
* Centralized Management: Integrates into Omada SDN for cloud access and remote management. Secure Guest Network: Along with multiple authentication options (SMS/Facebook Wi-Fi/ Voucher, etc.) and abundant wireless security technologies.
* Easy Installation and PoE Support: Easy-to-install design, compatible with 86 mm & EU & US standard junction box, and 802.3af/at PoE support.

[@crrodriguez]

Have two of these, short range, stable..decent price-performance.. minimal wife-nagging due to cables and devices not exposed. I must confess this last point was the real objective. :-)

[@Equatis]

Best video on this out there.

[@SPXLabs]

Thank you

[@SukumarPatel]

Are the downstream ethernet ports VLAN aware? Can i have three devices plugged in to them and each being on a different VLAN?

[@jfkastner]

Great review, thank you!

[@SPXLabs]

Thanks for watching!

[@jfkastner]

@@SPXLabs Possibly your plastic ipad keyboard/case sucks up some WiFi signals hence the lower speeds at larger distances ... i had a rubber case for my ipad (child-drop-proofing!) that slowed everything down a lot

[@SPXLabs]

Possibly yes. Also recording the screen at the same time as a speed test hinders my max throughput as well

[@ShinyTechThings]

I would do the same thing with the wall jack including accidentally scratching the wall 😂

[@etiennecharlier1676]

I'd like to know the entraxe ( distance between centers) of the 2 horizontaly aligned mounting holes present on the fixing plate ( in mm please ;-) )

[@patrick.771]

That's a very good video! If possible, could you please tell me what options I have for "Tx Power" and "Beacon Interval" in the settings? Unfortunately, this device isn't available in the TP-Link emulator.

[@orestesdd]

Could you provide a link to white short ethernet used in your video to connect the wall AP to keystone? I wonder if placing the wall AP so low will provide a good wifi coverage. Anyhow, thank you for your video.

[@MactelecomNetworks]

What in the heck I didn’t know they made the wall in wifi 6!!! Nice review

[@SPXLabs]

Bro can’t source hardware from TP Link hardware anymore so got to reach out in the black market lol

[@MactelecomNetworks]

@@SPXLabs 😂 my marketing guy left to another division and his replacement won’t email me back. Not sure if I wanna spend close to $200 Canadian on this AP but test look to be good

[@SPXLabs]

Oh wow! That’s not cool. I’m in a similar boat. The marketing woman I was working with has ghosted me too. That’s expensive ! $50.00 each from B&H photo lol

[@ronm6585]

Thank you.

[@kallan2255]

You should use fire rated low expansion foam or caulking and seal up the gap between the junction box and the drywall.

[@SPXLabs]

Probably. I don't think it's required by Alabama code and so that's how my house / the junction boxes were installed. I've been meaning to do it anyway for over a year now.... lol

[@kallan2255]

@@SPXLabs yeah I wouldn't be worried about the codes, I'd do it for your own energy performance and fire protection benefit.

[@SPXLabs]

Speaking facts here. I will do it. Eventually

[@veepsgarage]

What distance can one of these cover?

[@ka2from]

有難うございます！参考になりました！

[@SPXLabs]

どういたしまして。お立ち寄りいただき、コメントを残していただきありがとうございます。

[@anthonygaming9227]

Should have had the AP for your testing where you walked around l being straight up and down (looks like it was at a 45deg angle). The antenna patterns on all wall plate APs are optimized for wall placement only, so if don't have that you risk rapid signal drop-off, which is likely what happened.

[@SPXLabs]

There was a bit of an angle to it and it was much higher up than the other 2. The other 2 that were a part of the test were mounted appropriately, about 13 inches off of the floor. As shown near the beginning of the video. Anyway, I agree that the poor mounting may have unfairly given the AP a bad look. However, they work great in the real world.

[@jayangus]

I am looking to rebuild my home network with a similar Omada set-up. I really like the idea of a lot of small APs around the house to minimize gaps in coverage.

[@SPXLabs]

These are definitely small. Seem to work well enough too.

[@jayangus]

Anything has to be better than the single ISP router and hodgepodge of switches and power line adapters I have going at the moment. I will TP-Link had more information on what propagation looks like for these devices. Is it Omni directional?

[@SPXLabs]

That’s a good question

[@marcelkoek]

@@jayangus TP-Link actually has this documented in their data sheets: static.tp-link.com/upload/product-overview/2021/202107/20210730/EAP%20Datasheet.pdf (page 27 for this device)

[@jayangus]

@@marcelkoek Three APs made for really good coverage for a ranch-style home with about 2500 sqft

[@shunoni2359]

Silly question, but where did you get that nice short ethernet cable you used in your install?

[@SPXLabs]

Bought them from store.ui.com

[@ptessier73]

Not bad.. They are certainly not meant for range. This is really for inside the house and depending on how big your house is, you may need 1 to X devices. If you want outdoor coverage, one of the bigger TPLINK device like the "flying saucer" AX3600 is probably needed. Pretty nice review and nice devices. My only critique would be that the ports are only GIGABIT ports and if you have CAT 6 and a 10 gig network well you just lose that.

[@SPXLabs]

Amen to that. 2.5GbE next year lol

[@ptessier73]

@@SPXLabs To be honest I would totally settle for 2.5Gbe, I'm not 10 Gbe ready yet anyway and going 10 Gbe is expensive. For home use, 2.5Gbe is the next logical step. The problem is there are barely any switches that are 2.5Gbe capable.

[@SPXLabs]

Also where the heck are all the 10GbE switches! They are all either 4 ports or SFP

[@ptessier73]

@@SPXLabs Man you just made me curious. I didn't bother because when I last looked 6 months ago, there was no way I was going to pay 1K $ for a 10 Gbe 24 ports switch but you are right.. Can't find a single one on Amazon except for some 4 ports. Even used they are hard to come by (the 10 gbe).

[@SPXLabs]

As far as I know. Nobody makes more than 4 ports of 10GbE. And if they do they are stupid expensive

[@PlatinumJimmy_Jr]

In Australia our maximum home broadband upload cap is 50 Mbps so seeing that amazing upload result really makes my heart break :D

[@SPXLabs]

That's what you get for living too far away from everyone.

[@darrenb1367]

I'm planning to build my own router with an old pc and pfsense. All my permanent devices are hard-wired with ethernet and was looking at this to keep wifi for our phones. Would you recommend this for that purpose?

[@SPXLabs]

Yeah they work really in individual rooms. Make sure you install the Omada Controller as a container in PFSense so you can mesh them

[@Max8ksa]

Hi ... can I use two or more of this access point in my home with standard rotar and PoE switch ? With Seamless Roaming?

[@SPXLabs]

You will need Omada to setup the Seamless Roaming as outlined here www.tp-link.com/us/business-networking/omada-sdn-access-point/eap615-wall/

[@ShinyTechThings]

Looks like Ubiquiti's servers recognize that you are using TP-LINK and throttle your speeds. Totally kidding 😂

[@SPXLabs]

Lol that would be funny. I tried fast.com like usual but it was sooooo slow for some reason. So I had to use wifiman.

[@lupoarrabbiato6698]

This is the perfect copy of an Ubiquiti IW ap

[@SPXLabs]

Except with WiFi 6

[@lupoarrabbiato6698]

@@SPXLabs yes, you're right. I prefer Ubiquiti

[@SPXLabs]

I’m hoping ubiquiti makes a 2.5GbE version in the future. I’d buy that asap

[@user-lz9cs5yw7o]

can some one rate the wall unit for the ax version is it worth buying other then the flying saucer?

[@SPXLabs]

It depends because their designs are for different scenarios.

[@rojalpaul9272]

Is this mesh wifi'

[@haploguy]

does this thing work without the omada cloud s**t, just via web admin?

[@SPXLabs]

Will it work yes but many features will be missing. Meshing will only work with the Omada Controller Software, wheter that be cloud or local, as an example. But more importantly, you can download the omada controller software and run it on your desktop, container, or VM for free. Secondly, you can buy a omada hardware controller, both don't require cloud anything. Finally, if you so choose, you can use the cloud app instead.

[@carlovazquez2424]

Is the ping stable even if it has a lot of connected users?

[@thomasfriedl3137]

That is one of the advantages of WiFi 6, so yes

[@agro6264]

my dot EAP615-Wall is very hot 40С :(

[@b4un0]

Let see if I understood right. That’s a Powerline/AP wireless? 👀😍

[@SPXLabs]

It’s an AP that gets power over ethernet

[@pogsp8849]

Bought this last week. My house comes with an ethernet but i realized the product doesn’t come with RJ45 plug😅. I have tried using an POE Injector but it wont power it on. Any ideas how can i power this on?LOL My suspicion is because i’m using a D-Link Switch (DSG-1008G) and not a Tp Link Switch?

[@SPXLabs]

Is your PoE Injector 802.3af compliant? If so it should work. If not then it won’t work. It doesn’t matter what kind of switch use. Unless you want a switch to provide power.

[@cme9241]

I have 2 of these pretty good , your first name sounds Greek

[@SPXLabs]

It’s Italian, pretty close. My parents are not from the United States. I’m a first generation American!

[@cme9241]

@@SPXLabs I bought tp link Omada because of you happy with everything and will solve This er605 one of these days TP link tech support is great Always around

[@SPXLabs]

Sweet. I hope everything works out well for you!

[@nikolajovanovic1140]

Can you use this device in mesh?

[@SPXLabs]

Nope.

[@Phil-D83]

Test it with openwrt

[@Obelixlxxvi]

Why does the TP-Link interface look like a copy of the Ubiquiti's UniFi controller platform ?

[@SPXLabs]

Probably because the software is made by the same third party company. Or maybe because Ubiquitis looks so good and they said screw it, just clone it. OR plot twist, Ubiquiti made it and sold it to TP Link.

[@Obelixlxxvi]

@@SPXLabs Highly unlikely that Ubiquiti will sell it..it's patented. More like the typical modus operandi of the Chinese.

[@SPXLabs]

True but I thought it would be funny

[@ShinyTechThings]

First!

[@SPXLabs]

Damn baller!

[@chrisdover8014]

@@SPXLabs Your comment has a Translate to English, which translates it to Damn Balls!

[@SPXLabs]

Chris!!!! How’s life man?

[@chrisdover8014]

@@SPXLabs Busy as hell.

[@SPXLabs]

How’s the house situation?