TP-Link EAP115 N300 Wireless Access Point, 300Mbps Access Points Support PoE 802.3af and Direct Current, Omada Mesh, Easy Setup, Centralized Cloud Management, Easily Mount to Wall or Ceiling

Replacing my BT equipment with TP-Link Omada enabled items to improve network.This AP can push out wireless speeds matching my BT Fibre 500 line and takes POE to reduce cables.Smart design and easy to install, quick setup with Omada and very stable for my wireless devices. The option to have multiple SSIDs is great, we've Home, Work and Guest networks. Also means we can broadcast amusing SSIDs.The range on this device is brilliant, can pick it up multiple houses away from my home.

After wasting time and money on second-hand access points via a popular auction website, thinking that I'd be saving money buying old and cheap, I decided the only way to get near to a consistent and guaranteed experience, would be to bite the bullet and actually buy a brand-new device.As money is tight to begin with, though, I still need to find the cheapest, yet appropriate option - and this is how I found myself in TP-Link's entry-level bracket. Reassuringly, the reviews for the EAP115 sounded positive, and it provides the POE functionality that I need in our home setup. I took the leap of faith. So glad I did; strong connection, and setup is so simple I had to double-check that I wasn't missing something.The web admin back-end is clear and simple yet functional (there's no need for any apps if you just want to manage it via a browser from a computer on your network), and I even found an option here to turn the LED off; very useful if positioned where it may otherwise cause visual interference.I'm so impressed with the EAP115 that I'll be buying another to replace our ailing (decrepit) Zyxel.

I wanted to have a better wifi signal than that provided by my router, and this AC1750 AP does the trick. It also makes setting up a guest network trivially easy.The instructions are not that clear. For anyone who wants to configure one of these, including a guest network, this is a quick way to do it:1. connect the AC1750 to its PoE injector (comes in the box) and connect the injector to your LAN and to mains power.2. log in to your router and see which dhcp address it has assigned to the AC1750 (eg. 192.168.1.20, or whatever)3. access that address using your web browser4. log in as 'admin', password 'admin' and follow the basic steps in the initial wizard5. To set up the guest network select 'wireless' in the menu bar, and then either 2.4GHz or 5 Ghz. Click the little 'edit' button (has a pen symbol) at the right-hand side and change the security to WPA, flavour WPA-2, AES . You will see check boxes for guest network and for rate limiting. Check both boxes, and set sensible upload/download rate limits for the guests, and save.The rate limiting works well and devices on the guest network can only see the outside world, not the LAN. The only reason I have given it 4 stars instead of 5 is that the first one I bought stopped working after 5 days. That one was sent back and now its replacement seems so far to be working perfectly.

I don't write many reviews, but this device deserves a good one.Our router is in a garage converted into an office, and the insulation in the wall between it and the house is lined with aluminium - thus blocking the wifi signal like a Faraday cage. Grr. I have mucked around with wifi-in/wifi-out extenders over the last few years but they've been rubbish - mainly because I've been trying to get the signal to 'go around a corner'. I installed a powerline system to get internet to our TV, and that's been good, but obviously it's only good for devices wired into that one location.So - I took the plunge with this access point - drilled a hole in the shielding wall, fed a 10m ethernet cable through, fixed the AP in place, plugged it in, and - voila - problem completely solved. I just followed the simple instructions on the startup sheet, installed the app on my android phone, and now have excellent wifi throughout the (awkwardly shaped) house. Thank god for that!No dropouts and no resets in the first week. If the power goes off (I've been doing some wiring) the AP just seems to start itself up again - faster that the router does, it seems. The tp-link android app is fine and simple, although now I've set the password I can't see I'll need to do anything else. I wall-mounted the unit and it looks quite nice and sleek, or at least not irritating (see pic), and if the wires are fed through the wall you can arrange it so you can't see them.By the way, unlike an extender, the AP acts like a completely separate broadcast point. It has its own ID and you can give it a different password from your main router. My phone just seems to switch to whichever of the two is giving it the best signal. The instructions show that you can set up complex, wide-ranging systems, with multiple APs, and judging how 'independent' this one is, I can see that that would actually be quite simple. You could certainly have two or three if you had a humungous house.Just FYI, I looked up how far you can expect an Ethernet cable to carry a signal and it seems to be 100m - and if your house is bigger than that, contact me and I'll come round and use your pool and sauna.