TP Link EAP225 Outdoor: Unboxing, firmware tour and range testing
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- Опубліковано 7 бер 2018
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Great video. All review makers should make equipment range test videos like this. Keep up the good work. THUMBS UP
That was a great video. It's about time someone shared how they test the distance of these AP. The documentation doesn't say much regarding obstructions, or distance for indoor AP, and the outdoors has just distance (which I assume is line of sight). Again, thanks for sharing your test.
Thank you for a fab video, very thorough, I was clueless and this taught me all I need to know, have now ordered one of these to send wifi to my back garden. Much appreciated
i guess Im quite off topic but do anybody know of a good place to watch new tv shows online?
Thank you for this review. I have been looking for one.
Thanks for the demonstration, I am going to purchase a couple of these now.
Got 3 indoor variants of those APs, totally happy with them - and this video motivates me to buy outdoor variant. Also Omada manager is pretty easy to use and really unlocks the potential if you do have more than 2 or 3 APs its definitely worth it. Whats even better - omada can be installed to rpi. (not particularly easy but can be done)
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I've tried several methods of extending wifi to the rest of our property and so far this one looks to be the ticket. Should arrive tomorrow. I've been impressed with the reviews I've seen of it so far. Thanks for sharing.
Please let us know how it works out for you.
Thanks for the vid. I will be using this WAP for a project.
Yes thank you for this video. This is the kind of video i enjoy seeing people actually going OUTSIDE to test how far it reaches Really awesome of you ! You should try a 4G antenna as well i'd like to buy a new 4G antenna that would boost the signal for my 4G at home and i'd like to seee if there are any decent ones out there
Kevin in Oregon saying thank you for the perfect review Mr. Kayfetz! I only need to go 100 feet but now I'm having to go through a bunch of concrete. This will get me out from behind the concrete (only 10 feet away outdoors under the roof eve). This will work perfectly!!! You're a jewel!!! Thank you for spending your valuable time for all of us!!!
Thanks for the very informative video. I bought this unit but not yet setup. Thanks again.
nice test man :) thank you .
I Love Canada. Great country. Will bem back to visit again
Very helpful video. Would this be good for my outdoor 8 wireless camera setup I want to install?
Great video, well reviewed
I’ve used ubiquity’ nano and pico range and they worked pretty well. Was visiting a friend who wanted to set up outdoor WiFi. Figured we could use these as they were omnidirectional and easily available. Picked up a couple but there wasn’t a repeater mode, instead it needed a mesh controller which has to be bought separately. Even low end TP link routers come with repeater mode so this was a shock. Ended up using a spare low powered router to bridge since a cable would ruin the aesthetics, Mounted one on a 15 foot pole. Range was about 100ft. They’re a few large bushy plants and trees which seemed to dampen the signal quiet a bit. Just about Ok I’d say.
Solid info, thanks!
Awesome real test video. I have the 300mbps eap110. I wonder how it will do inside my garage with cinder block and what coverage distance outside the garage will be.
Thank you for this test and very informative matter.
Thanks for this review.
Thanks for the video. Can I use this with my home Asus router? Will it do Wireless clients handoff between itself and the wireless from Asus router?
Hello Ben, very good review. I'd like to ask you, what's the name of the steps counter app?
Great video. But if I keep the route 70feet above the ground, will I get better coverage ?
The reason it works better when facing the antenna is because you're acting as a giant RF shield. 2.4ghz is absorbed by water, so trees, leaves on trees, human beings, etc.. 5ghz is a bit less selective about what it's stopped by, it just doesn't like any obstructions.
With that said, I ordered an eap110 (same thing but without 5ghz), and your practical review in a real world environment (with some trees in the way, and on a standard smartphone) was what knocked me off the fence and into the buy side. Looks like this will do a much better job at covering 7 acres than my current roaming setup, though I'm still going to have one roaming ap in the barn... Metal roof is worse than a human body for WiFi signals.
Thanx for the information, i also plan to have eap110 coz i love in trees and crowds environment
@@albusaidi29 I've been using it since a few days after I left this reply. We have some trees on our property too, and I was quite impressed with its performance. To explain, we have a RT-AC3200 in the living room, which is about 30 feet closer than the outdoor router on the side of the house with the weeping willow. When the willow is not in the way, both signals are similar. Behind the willow, I lose the RT-AC3200 entirely (it does have multiple walls to compete with) whereas the eap110 holds a pretty good signal. Line of sight helps. I can turn off the roaming AP in my barn and still get 3/4 bars in there, and that's about 150 feet from the access point and with a metal roof over the barn. So I do recommend it if you need good coverage for longer distances. Huge difference over the indoor router. Also walked the perimeter of the property, there are no spots where I lose more than a bar of signal. Some of those are about 300 feet away (according to google earth), so quite a little beast. Granted, there aren't any other APs in the area to compete with on our channels, so that helps, but still quite impressive. I can barely even see (and usually don't see) the RT-AC3200.. Which is technically a more powerful signal (though barely), but having this outdoor and mounted higher makes a huge difference.
Some review said that it have constant drop of connections..cant connect.
@@JassonQuill haven't had any issue with it dropping connections myself. I did have a brownout that it didn't like very much, though.. It was still broadcasting an SSID but not connected to the network. A reboot fixed it. It has been pretty solid for me thus far, and fingers crossed it stays that way.
@@soulnull yeah thats also some problem.. it broadcast but cant connect.. so the power source should be constant..thats big problem in my area.. :(
can this run simultaneously between 2.4 and 5ghz? Is there a feature inside the two frequencies that can use universal repeater mode?
Hi thanks for video. I am thinking to buy this product. But i wanted to ask when you move the ap to a different location it will work fine with out being hooked up to the router? I just make sure it gets set up before moving it out.
Hello Ben, I just have a question. Whats the internet speed you get in the park. Planning on getting one of these to get internet in my wooden hut behind the house. Its around 30m away from the house. Do you think I would get a good enough connection to watch UA-cam etc from there. Thanks
Hey sweet channel ☺ Keep it up!
Thanks for watching!
Ben, thanks for a very practical review. Planning on using the EAP225 to extend wifi from a house to a lakeside dock, about 60 yards, with some light foliage in between. Wondering, after your marina install, whether you have any impression of "real world" performance, i.e, not unobstructed line of sight.
I tested to 90 meters (about 100 yards) and at the marina the farthest boat is about 60 yards and it's stable enough for netflix.
@@bkayfetz Hi, Ben. what is the application for the wifi range that you used?
@@allanluna9802 WiFi Analyzer
I commented before about mine, and I'm commenting again. Swapped out the antennas on it with some higher gain ones. Be careful doing this, you may actually hurt your coverage.. Gain narrows the beamwidth, and you're trading off 'near' coverage for 'far' coverage by doing this, especially right under it. 5db is a good compromise (and what comes with these by default), but I needed to cover a lot of land as I use it to mow my fields out in the boonies. My goal was to 'beat the trees' a little bit, as I had one spot in the yard that was being negatively affected by the trees... Anyways, I had my most favorable test today. Normally I just mow with it and don't usually range test it, but I was curious. 1,594 feet away from the AP before it dropped. Before the antenna swap, I was getting about a thousand feet.. So definite improvement.
can you suggest what kind of antenna did you bought? i was looking also for a good antenna.
@@kjvlogs5956 the techtoo 9dbi 2-pack on Amazon is the one I bought, and I'm still satisfied with these and recommend them for the right reasons.. for covering further horizontally at the cost of vertical signal, like covering a rural property, or from the center of the parking lot of a truck stop, or a trailer park, etc.. directional could be a better way to do in some instances, or a corner reflector.. there are lots of ways to optimize, but each niche use can have it's upsides and downsides, and one may work better for you than another, depending mostly on AP location relative to area targeted, obstructions, and distance... RF is still very much a "dark art" :/
@@soulnull thank you.. gonna look for this..
@@kjvlogs5956 you're welcome. Hopefully it does the job for you.
@@soulnull i hope so.. thank you again.. :)
what app did you use to check the range?
Does it penetrate walls? what is the maximum range in open space
So does it need to be wired to the router or can I used it just as extender, would only want to purschase one of these...thank you.
Thanks this one of the best reviews I have seen. I bought the older eap 110 outdoor, and it will not form an ip address, so I can't get in to get it working. Any ideas? The tp-link helpdesk told me tocheck the forums. No help there yet either.
Cool little video, the issue with it is that it does not actually test the range of the TP device but rather your phones radio antenna. this TP device has a much longer range than you can pick up on your phone. you would need to setup a mobile cart with 24V battery(drill battery), laptop, poe switch and a second TP link eap225.
This is a very true and clever answer!
Hi Ben - Who is the creator of the WiFi Analyzer app you are using on your phone? Any others you prefer? I've tried a few but they mostly stink.
thanks
Thanks for the video, i am thinking about getting this for my brother who lives like 5 houses away, will you still recommend this today?
what apps do u used to checked signal meter? is it suitable for iOS?
After set up with the cable can you make them wireless ? I got one on the house and want to buy a 2nd for the workshop and don't want to run a ethernet to it . I can pick up the signal (2 sometimes 3 bars) outside the workshop but when the door is shut it drops out alot .
Pure ethernet ? Or can I as above ?
Hi Sir Ben, just wanna ask the app you are using for wifi analyzer? who's the creator? thanks
Ever have connection issues when a lot of devices are connected?
Really good video. i'm looking one like this.
so..how do i connect it to a router ? an huawei b310s per example.
The company claims 200m on 2.4 and 300m on 5. Regardless, a range of 70 to 90m is impressive.
Can i use it for about 150+meter?
hello, great video, what app do you use to signal wifi
could you make a review about Wavlink N300 outdor?
In minutes 17.57 how to activated distance meter in the wifi analyzer..? Thanks..,
I thought 2.4 ghz will give a further distance because of the waive properties, but it seems 5ghz is actually farthest !?
Thank you! Great review. Just to clarify, so you can detach the cable to your router after you've set-up the device?
No, the cable must be on the router
hi sir, what appp are you using to test the distance?
sir how can i able to connect outdoor cpe to my router? my TP LINK OUTDOOR CPE cant connect under survey. i refresh many times but there is none. now i cant use my outdoor cpe :(
what if EA225 is AP and a CPE router for 200meters?
code , pass on right monitor?))
can i use 30 to 50 meters cat6 outdoor cable with no issue?
Can you Controll the internet speed of connected clients or SSID ??
In minute 16:45 you placed the accespoint oitside. Do you have an internet connection over there? Because the lan cable is not plugged in....
I didn't have internet connected for that test. It's not needed for testing of the wireless range.
Thank you for the great review.
Can you do a video on the captive Portal Function?
I am looking to get something like this (and this model looks good) that will allow for users to login with individual access codes (Preferably one time use codes).
Can you tell me if this feature is available on this model?
hi,there is a solution for that its call omada Controller it works better if you buy the oc200 with it , i have it, great product you can add up to 50 access points and 300 users .. with login
does tplink EAP110 penetrate thru walls? concrete walls
what app are you using for your wifi analyzer
Great video. Thank u.
Which program do you used for checked the wifi connection?? Thanks, and great video!!
Wifi Analyzer
Hi, thanks for the video. Just want to ask what is the difference in terms of range between EAP110 and EAP225?
I had the 110 and I notice some difference
Hi. I have a question to ask. Is it possible to setup this 225 outdoor without a wired connection ? I have a existing wifi that I wanna extend. But I cannot connect with ethernet cable. Is it possible to setup and extend wifi without connecting any cables ? By mistakenly I bought tp link 110 outdoor extender and it has to be connected with ethernet cable from router always which I cannot) please advise me. Thanks
god I hope so! I've been screwing around with this for two days now and can't figure out how to set it up without a wired connection. What good would this be if it has to be wired?
Very gooood Video Love it thooo Good Job
how longest that it still can be connected
Hi ben,
Do you have an idea on maximum client to connect through this access point? Please advise, thanks,
From TP-Link support: There isn’t a fix amount of maximum clients, as it will depend on the network bandwidth occupied by applications running on each of the clients. According to previous testing, 25 devices will be able to stream video without issues, with 30 devices you may have occasional errors.
Super. I am gonna buy
300' is impressive. Imagine what it would do mounted slightly above your roofline and with a broad line of sight. I have a friend who has some property, but due to their tin materials on the side of the home, their wifi struggles to get out of the house. This would be ideal mounted 30' up on their power pole. I think they'd get full property coverage. Do you have any updated feedback on performance? Cheers.
High mounting wifi aps can produce poor reception for ground-level users.
Are the code and password supposed to be publicly visible on your rightmost monitor? I haven't watched the entire video yet.
LOL... I was waiting for someone to notice that. They were temporary codes for a project that changed later that day. Thanks for watching!
what wifi strength app is on your phone?
is this better than mesh wifi setup?
Thanks men :)
Can pair this with a Google wifi for outside
what’s the name of the mobile apps you used?
Great!!! Thats practical approach!!! But can u share speed results as well!!!!???? Like drop on in speed as you go 50m away!!!
Hi Ben, i like it the video very useful ! I would like to use it as an amplifier without LAN cable, only PoE but I did not find it in the descriptions from this direction info. You can help possibly ? thank you very much
I want to know the same. Any ideas ?
I was planning to buy some Mikrotik to put them on the backyard of my mom's house she's always complaining how bad the WiFi is on the pool side of the house.. But these make a lot more sense for the price.. 😁 Mikrotik got finally beat by another brand on price performance.
Mikrotik wifi is terrible. I have them, cap ac and wap ac. Tried a ubiquity u6-lr recently (bought it for my dad), it alone trumped my both in-house cap ac aps and covered some of the property that mikrotik failed to do. Now going to change my own setup to eap670 or two in the house and a couple of these outdoor ones for the property, with an oc200 to manage them centrally.
Can I link multiple over mesh
Can i connect my phone with distance of 130-150 meters if I install it on on pole 40 feet up from ground ?
i also want to know the same
How long range does he cover
Wouldn't the range be better if it was high up on the outside wall of your house?
surely!
Can I assume if you are using a POE switch that you don't need to plug it in. It's just the poe to the one cat5 link and then the other to the unit?
Absolutely correct. TP Link is pretty generous as they include a POE injector with every AP. But my 7 TP Link APs are all on one POE switch.
can you try more than 150m???
Thank u so much
Do you have other considerations about this ap?
I want share Network from a home far a 20 meters to other house, but I don't find many reviews about this ap.
Thank you.
I'd say this AP will do the job for your application..
I just set mine up on the balcony to my condo and in trying to broadcast wifi to my pool deck. I'm on the 8th floor so that should be 80 feet, but I'm not getting a good signal at all. Is there anything different I should modify in the settings?
The signal may be linear. The 8th floor is quite high up. You might want to point the antennas at an angle toward to pool if you have it on the balcony and there are no obstructions. If you have this in your condo and not on a balcony or with tress and obstructions, it's going to be hard to get a signal.
This one is really cool can I use the app and log everyone off of it permanently if I want to?
Wds suported?
What we also need to know is how many devices concurrent connections this device can handle smoothly..thanks
Been over 4 months and he hasn't answered the question.
he is not seller to answer specs question
Quanto metros é o alcance ?
Hi can you please advise me if which one is better this tplink eap225 or the unifi ac mesh
I have very little experience with Ubiquiti's products. I hear very good things about them. However I find that their interfaces are highly technical and therefore more difficult to use. Also their support is email only and in my experience they take 24 to 48 hours to respond to emails.
What is the name of the app you used to measure WIFI signal strength
Ben Kayfetz
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.farproc.wifi.analyzer
What is the WiFi Anlayzer you use? Seems pretty handy...
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.farproc.wifi.analyzer&hl=en_CA
What app is that?
I had a TP Link range extender I bought a few years ago. It must have a software flaw because I need to reset it spontaneously as it keeps locking up. I would like to replace it, but am a little wary of the TP Link brand since owning it. TW-WA901ND. I updated the firmware and it still keeps locking up every day or two. People found the only solution was to put it on a timer so it would reset itself every day. The question I had was whether it is still working ok?
This device is a wired access point. It may have extender feature but I haven't used them if it does. I've had good luck with TP link overall as a brand. You might have just got stuck with the one lemon. Just buy from a retailer with a good return policy. I just picked up a TP link RE305 extender for home use and so far it's great.
@@bkayfetz Are the security flaws in the RE305 fixed?
"AUGUST 2018
Multiple bugs in TP-Link Wi-Fi Extenders
From Bad to Worse: Firmware Vulnerability Detection with the Centrifuge Platform
by Craig Heffner of Refirm Labs August 13, 2018
This story starts with a command injection vulnerability published for the TP-Link WL-WA850RE Wi-Fi Range Extender. The bug grants a remote attacker complete access to the device, but it requires administrative credentials. Using software from his company, the Centrifuge Platform, Heffner found a more serious bug that allows a remote attacker to completely control the device even without prior knowledge of the administrative credentials. The vulnerability affects multiple TP-Link products, including devices connected to the Internet and therefore susceptible to remote attack. At first, Heffner found tons of calls to strcpy with stack addresses as the destination. Then he put the httpd binary into a disassembler. In the previously known bug, the wps_setup_pin value can be used to exploit both a stack-based buffer overflow and command injection. But, the vulnerable code sits behind an authentication check. So, he looked for HTTP requests that do not require authentication. He got a list of 24 function handlers that do not require authentication. The most interesting one was: /fs/data/config.bin which generates the backup configuration file. Yes, an un-authenticated user can dump a file with the admin password. The config file is compressed and DES encrypted. But, TP-Link has been re-using the same encryption key for years. After decrypting the config file, Heffner found the admin password was stored as an MD5 hash which can be directly fed into the web interface of the router. Attackers do not need to know the plain text password. Heffner wrote: "Thanks to vendor code reuse, bugs like these are rarely isolated to a single product (or even to a single OEM!)." So, he went looking for other TP-Link products that might be affected, again using software from his company that scans firmware for known vulnerabilities. Other vulnerable range extenders are the: RE305, RE450, TL-WA830RE, TL-WA850RE and the TL-WA855RE. Heffner found many of these were directly accessible from the Internet. He developed a proof of concept exploit script that grabs the configuration file, decrypts it, decompresses it, authenticates to the target device, and exploits the command injection bug to start a telnet server on port 8080. It appears that little, if any, work has been done by either researchers or TP-LInk into whether other devices are affected by these bugs. TP-Link was told of all this but there are, as of now, no patches. It is not clear if they responded to Heffner at all.
TP-Link TL-WA850RE - Remote Command Execution June 20, 2018 by yoresongo. This is the initial WPS command injection bug that requires administrative credentials
TP-Link Technologies TL-WA850RE Wi-Fi Range Extender - Remote Reboot April 26, 2018 by Wadeek. It was already known that you can get the backup configuration file without a password
URL: teknoraver DOT net/software/hacks/tplink/ ==> TP-Link the Unreliable Choice by Matteo Croce an OpenWrt Developer. No date. It was also already known that TP-Link re-uses an encryption key. Teknoraver has been flagged as potentially dangerous so the URL is given here rather than a link."
(routersecurity.org/bugs.php)
Thanks for ur video can u tell me which android app for testing u r useing on ur mobile tnx
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.farproc.wifi.analyzer&hl=en_CA
Which app are you using me to measure the distance from an antenna?
Wifi Analyzer, available on Playstore
Just bought one, works fine with its injector, but won't power up when connected to a 802.3af/at switch that currently has 2 other Axis PoE cameras on it working fine. Switch is rated for 60W, cams use 5-10W each. I tried switching ports, cables, everything. Just won't power up. Can you test (with a PoE switch) to see if it really is an 802.11af compliant device, or if you have to use the injector brick.
Funny you mention that. I am now running the EAP outside at a marina. It's running on the supplied POE injector. I am planning on adding a couple of outdoor cameras to the mix and I'm about to replace the injector with a TP-Link POE switch I had lying around. I may get to that tomorrow. I'll post the results here.
This afternoon I swapped out the supplied injector with a small POE switch. The TP Link TL-SG108PE . It worked perfectly. I'll also be adding 1 or 2 Poe cameras. Maybe I'll post a video on the project...
Any update on camera ben??
Hi Ben, What is the app that measures distance.? Wifi Analyzer I already have it
Took me a bit to find it as that Samsung note is long gone. I have very little experience with it. I pretty much just downloaded it for that test. Seemed to work well. Here's the link.
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tayu.tau.pedometer&rdid=com.tayu.tau.pedometer
what's that analyzer sir? :)