Omada EAP773 | BE11000 Tri-Band Wi-Fi 7 Wireless Access Point | 1 x 10 GB PoE+ Port | Multi-Link Operation, SDN Integrated | Cloud Access & Omada App | w/o DC Adapter

A little to pricy.The unit has all the full speed wifi 7 specs. , not cut down like some of the slower units. Including 4x antennas, mlo etc.It does run hotter than the older generations as expected.The unit is not picky about placement for a good signal.It does take a little effort to setup all the 3 bands plus MLO.Bottom line I went from wifi 5 (average 144 Mbs for all devices) to wifi 7 and 1700Mbs 1000% increaseI do expect to be faster later as I only have 2 antenna phones etc now.I do like that you can manage it through the cloud or app and buy a subscription etc. I only want the do the oldstyle browser management and this is much appreciated, Many routers and mesh systems today seem to force you touse the cloud or a phone. Not this one.Should be fairly future proofedOne of those rare purchases that is better than expected.

During long operation it DOES feel hot, but i haven't noticed any performance issues, so guess it's engineered to work under those conditions. One user who opened it saw there was no fan, so it's passively cooled.I came from a Ubiquiti ecosystem for managing unifi ap. So i wasn't sure what to expect for Omada. But i'm glad to report it worked quite well. I self host the omada controller via docker container on truenas via jailmaker. Works fine on the latest beta.The mobile app is also handy.You can manage this ap a few ways. Stand alone without any sort of controller, basically it's accessed via a webui in browser and also mobile app; Or cloud (which i'm not a fan of); or via controller (either hardware or self hosted software. i recommend the later). Out of these i recommend the controller because you get access fully to all options/features. 2nd recommandation is stand alone mode if you run a single ap and don't want to have any extra hardware running just to manage the ap.I couldn't test the wifi7. But wifi 6e and 6ghz works good.*updateSamsung S24 Ultra now properly supports wifi7 6ghz channel band, 320mhz width. So i ran some tests.5meters in direct line of sight, i got 1200-2000 Mbps@ 10-15meters with 1-2 walls between the ap and client device, it switches to 5ghz channel band. speeds were 300-350 mbpscoverage using a single ap should be able to handle a small 2 story home. But if you are expecting 1000-2000 Mbps using wif7 6ghz, 320mhz, then you need- multiple aps to spread them out in different rooms for direct line of sight (maybe change the rssi to a lower setting to account for using multiple aps). set them in Mesh mode.- have a client device that supports 6ghz 320mhz (my Samsung s24 ultra smartphone does)If you want speeds exceeding 2000 Mbps, the EAP-873 might be able to. But if you want something for 1000-2000 Mbps that doesn't cost as much, then EAP-773 is fine as your entry point into wifi7.

I'm usually a Unifi guy but the new Omada WIFI 7 EAP peek my interest.The Omada has better radios, 10G Ethernet including passthrough and cooler than Unifi gear.But the product still needs more development, although I got a throughput of 2100mbps vs 1400mbps on the Unifi U7 Pro Max, MLO is a feature which crashed the Omada EAP 783. I don't know if it is related to the iPhone 16 Pro or One Plus Open with a recent chipset, but the EAP auto reboots after few minutes on a 700mbps throughput, indicating it is stuck on WiFi 6/5ghz. The other problem I see is the price, as the EAP783 needs a POE++, 60W power supply which is hard to find or a 12v DC power supply, the POE++ I found was another $100 making this device nearly 2x the cost of a Unifi U7 Pro Max.Generally Omada is on the right track, the hardware is top but the software and overall controller and APP eco system are years behind unifi. The statistics and graphs I get on Unifi are much more informative.

I bought one of these to try out, we have APs that have just been so-so in my opinion in some ways especially for how expensive they are (the WiFi 6 5Ghz band doesn't even have the option for 160Mhz channels on our current ones...really?).For a fraction of the cost the speed is literally 3x as fast as our current APs (see file transfer screenshot). It seems the range is better and there are some options the current ones don't have. These also have 10GB uplinks which is far superior to the 1GB uplinks of the current ones, it makes a big difference and there is a POE injector on Amazon that is capable of 10GB throughput.For some reason I could not get into the AP over web browser, I ended up using the phone app, and be aware you are VERY limited on what you can do with config through the app. You can cover all the basic stuff if that is all you need, but there is a lot you are missing out on. I ended up installing the Omada Windows software, and was still sort of surprised that it will run the APs with no additional hardware or cost if you don't need anything super advanced. The Omada software is reasonably good for the most part, especially for it being a free download, and it will cover a lot of what you need in a lot of environments by itself. You do also have the option to have it sync to a TP-Link cloud account, I haven't got that far with it yet.Update: After getting my hands on a Qualcomm WiFi 7 adapter and the Win 11 24H2 update, the performance boost is significant. The same file transfer in the screenshot I posted (the screenshot was still 3x the transfer speed as the previous AP) is now pushing 150-200mbps, this is faster than the same transfer over a cabled 1GB connection. We chose to purchase 3 more of these instead of the current ones we have to expand coverage due to our satisfaction with these APs.