TP-Link Omada EAP783 vs EAP690HD, EAP783 Unboxing, EAP783/SX3206HPP LAG Setup

I just picked up a new EAP783 off Amazon for $500 and wanted to show it off since I haven't seen any other videos on it.
In this video I show off my network setup. Run EAP690 HD WiFi 6e Speedtests to an iPhone 15 Pro Max and a Alienware R15 which both have WiFi 6e compatibility. Unbox the EAP783. Hook up and adopt the EAP783 to my network and update it's firmware. Then set up a LAG between the EAP783 and the SX3206HPP its linked to. Next run WiFi 6e speedtests to the iPhone 15 Pro Max and Alienware R15 again. Then swap out the Alienware R15's Wifi 6e card for a WiFi 7 card and run another speedtest to compare it to WiFi 6e. Lastly compare all the speed tests to the Alienware R15's 2.5Gb Ethernet Card.
Network Equipment: Fidium Fiber ONT provisioned for 2Gb up/down (Fastest Package they offer in my area.)
TP-Link Omada Gear:
Router - ER8411
Controller - OC300
10G switches - SX3206HPP x2
1/10 gig Core Switch - SG3428XMP
1G Switch - SG2210MP
Wireless Access Points - EAP690 HD, EAP783.
The entire network runs on a 10G backbone. The slowest link is to the Alienware R15's 2.5Gb ethernet card.
0:00 - Network Tour
0:51 - EAP690 to iPhone 15 PM Speedtest Same Room
1:20 - EAP690 to iPhone 15 PM Speedtest One Room Away
1:49 - EAP690 to PC's Intel WiFi 6e Speedtest One Room Away
2:35 - OC300 Dashboard Showing Hardware
2:46 - EAP783 Unboxing and Comparison to EAP690
3:49 - Hooking up the EAP783
4:11 - Adopting the EAP783 and Naming it
4:45 - Updating EAP783 Firmware
5:22 - Setting up LAG between EAP783 and SX3206HPP
6:36 - EAP783 to PC's Intel WiFi 6e Speedtest One Room Away
7:46 - EAP783 to iPhone 15 PM Speedtest Same Room
8:17 - EAP783 to iPhone 15 PM Speedtest One Room Away
8:50 - EAP783 to PC's Intel WiFi 7 Speedtest One Room Away
10:38 - PC's Intel 2.5Gb Ethernet Card to Internet Speed Test

[@justinballard56]

Thanks for taking the time to make this video. Was very helpful.

[@TimothyRoy]

I am glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for watching it.

[@YouTob.]

Thanks man. DATA, this is a REAL review, abrazo!

[@TimothyRoy]

Thanks for watching!

[@bober1019]

you should run an openspeed test or iperf server locally. also you forgot to do a speediest to the old 690e with the wifi7 card. 10 bucks it performs the same via the "online" version of speed test

[@bradmesserle999]

Dude Thank you for the video. I have no clue how you figured this out since i have found ZERO documentation on setting up LAG. I have all the same hardware and I got loop back issues because i did not know about enabling the truck. Yea ti would be nice if there was a conformation that we actually are getting 20GIG connection to the switch. I will never use that much bandwidth so i might see if i can just connect the second Ethernet to a different switch for redundancy... Neverless thank you. I

[@TimothyRoy]

@@bradmesserle999 You’re welcome. I’m happy new people have found the video recently and found it helpful!

[@kira7x2]

Thanks for the video, a lot of useful info

[@vipergod2000]

Thanks for taking the time to make this comparison! Any idea how the EAP 773 compares with the 783 in terms of performance?

[@TimothyRoy]

I don’t but honestly given the speeds I got from the EAP783 were nowhere near even the advertised speeds for the EAP773 they are probably the same. Hopefully drivers and tweaks for windows 11 will increase what MLO connections can do for WiFi 7. Hopefully iPhone 16 or 17 has MLO so I can test that this fall.

[@thomazd]

Amazing video! Thank you! Hopefully MLO can be tested soon.

[@TimothyRoy]

@@thomazd in another video I posted on my channel I tested MLO with the Windows 11 24H2 beta.

[@thomazd]

@@TimothyRoy Great, just checked!

[@Someguy21341]

Can the second 10g port be used as a POE pass-on or only as a LAG?

[@TimothyRoy]

@@Someguy21341 pass through to other Access points yes, POE I am not sure. I think only the main port on it is POE.

[@cubicattache]

Awesome. Tp-link router has bunch of ports but only one sfp+ support 10 gigs, others 1g, that sucks. As user u' have to buy switch and other stuff

[@TimothyRoy]

The TP-Link ER8411 Router has 2 SFP+ 10 gig ports.

[@cubicattache]

you are right, but one is mainly for the WAN, the other is for the LAN and the other ethernet ports are not used. i just not count wan port.

[@christian571]

This is awesome. I believe if you used Active LACP instead of Static LAG you might have seen the 20Gbps (with the knowledge that you would still only ever get 10gb per link) that should let you have two full speed streams to the rest of the network.

[@TimothyRoy]

Thank you! It fails to connect and starts rebooting ports all over the network with that setting set. The EAP side can’t handle those settings. I confirmed with TP-Link support that I set it up correctly given the EAPs limitations.

[@bober1019]

@@TimothyRoy when using LACP, one side needs to be passive, the other side active.

[@TimothyRoy]

@@bober1019 in this case, that breaks the connection. I confirmed with support I have it set right. Manual confirms

[@bober1019]

@TimothyRoy I had a quick look at tplink community forums and seems LACP is either not working or not supported... apparently there is no mention of which standard it acctualy is capable of. plus the fact that they call bonding "trunk" tells me this might be a half-baked product/firmware. I have a 690e which i switched from a unifi 6 enterprise, and I am much happier but TP-LINK aps seem to have very little to no firmware updates past the 6 to 12 month post initial release. I am sort of planning to purchase a 783 but might wait to see if this gets resolved... and to be honest, I have 0 wifi 7 devices and usually 1st gen devices and drivers usualy suck when a new standard comes out. but please, if you have time, try doing local speed tests from a server capable of 10gbps and try that wifi7 card again...( iperf3 or openspeedtest from a docker instance using host network, no natting) thanks

[@TimothyRoy]

@@bober1019 check my channel. I have a video where I do that with win11 24h2 canary build installed. Definitely faster even from a room away through drywall. Rivals my 2.5GB Ethernet connection.