Complete Home Setup with TP-Link Omada - Best Bang for Your Buck Enterprise-Level WiFi 

WooHoo for another non-Unifi video! Keep them coming!!

Thanks for taking the time and sharing your home setup. I just completed mine and really like the idea of separating the network based on client traffic. I also love the TP-Link single-user interface. Now I need to find someone who wants my Linksys and Netgear equipment. :)

Nicely done! I have had the Omada set up for about 6 months now and finally I will get the chance to set up the same arrangement you have. I do want guests to be allowed on the AP's and nothing else and my IoT stuff to still be able to get out but not into may management LAN. Just means going back to my roku and other IoT stuff and putting in the password of the new SSID...alot of stuff on the management VLAN that needs to be moved...But worth it.

I like the separation of guest and IoT traffic! I also like the attention payed to setting rules to isolate then from access to VLAN 1. So many people miss on this stuff.

As a total noob in this field, this ist the information I was searching for. Thank you so much!

Your videos are always concise, informative, spot-on, well edited. Thank you for the knowledge.

Great walk through on this one Chris. I appreciate it - I have both Ubiquiti and TP-Link devices, and as always you make it very easy to understand.

I set up my Omada from this video, thanks for the great knowledge and well spoken tutorial.

I am 12:26 into this video and just wanted stop and say thank you. This is, so far, one of the best Omada set up videos I have watched. My setup includes: OC300,ER7206,TL-SG2210P,TL-SG2210MP, EAP265 and a EAP224.My network is setup and works well, but need to do a few tweaks you covered in this video. I am challenged with ACL... This helped a lot. Thanks for the video.

Thank you a lot for this video! I've just finished configuring my Omada environment following your instructions, it is so clear now.

Great training. Well thought out and organized. Easy to follow. Thanks

That was a great overview video of a simple network design/implementation. Thanks Chris....

This is exactly what I needed to see! I will be purchasing this exact setup. Keep the Omada vids coming!

Perfect, just what I needed, thank you!

I really appreciate this walk through and it helped me, as a checklist and a how to for some parts, setting up my stronger home network (as a bit of a noob). Thank you

Brilliant training video on setting up a partitioned home network using TP-Link Omada

The best omada video. thanks

I've been torn between Ubiquiti and TP-Link, I think you've just managed to convince me to go with TP-Link.

Awesome video! Clear and concise.

Great overview. Will get people up and running in no time

This was great! More Omada videos on ACL config and other features!! Thanks

This was a great tutorial! Thank you for sharing!

This is just what i needed...Your great ...Thank you

Great job and well explained. Thank you for that.

Thanks for sharing such a nice instructional video on OMADA, it will be very useful for me in the future.

Now I can understand how to config secure network with vlan, thanks for your explanation

Great vid! One thing I noticed app vs on screen controller setup is that device firmware upgrades work better through the app. By better I mean it pulls the update automatically, as well as newer than what's listed on the Omada site.

Nice video and good channel. I work from home and a small office. I currently use Nest Wifi for both locations. My problem is that, at the house, the ISP can go down at inconvenient times, like when I'm video conferencing. I recently learned about failover, and your router recommendation here seems to have that feature in spades with up to 4 WAN ports. I haven't seen any consumer grade routers with a failover option that I've been interested in yet. For example, the LTE routers all seem to lack mesh abilities. And on the commercial grade equipment, failover even seems rare. Unify for example only has dual WAN on its most expensive router. Failover isn't my only priority. I know the aesthetics committee will want any visible gear to look nice. I want to keep noise to a minimum. And space is a premium. Given all these priorities, the best options I've seen so far are either your TP-Link recommendation, or using PFSense on an appropriate router. I may start with your TP-Link recommendation and use the Nest Wi-Fi gear as access points. That will allow me to experiment with another cable internet provider, an LTE router in bridge mode, or satellite provider to see how failover works. If I like it, I figure I can add to the system from there.

Thank you so much. Your channel have so many useful how to videos. The Unifi setup was very helpful for me and I was curious about this platform as well.... now I know!

Great thanks for this. This has been extremely helpful !

this is lovely and very practical examle. Awesome.

Please do more videos on the omada configuration via the controller asap! Thanks

pretty useful video tutorial and really help us a lot as a new user of omada and tp link product.. :)

Glad to see someone ignoring unifi for a change, and giving people a different option. You can be sure if people knew there were different options they would go there, as unifi does not fit what evewryone wants. So, i am glad to see someone on net choosing to show there are other options. Personally i picked tplink ages ago, so i know they have a product that works, so nice to see your channel doing videos on this other option.

Thank you for this 😇

Thank you, very helpfull

This video made me go out and buy Omada over Ubiquiti and year on only one regret.. the firewall functionality in the router is perhaps a little lack compared to an OpenSense or pfSense unit. Have you considered a video on how to augment an Omada SDN with a more heavyweight firewall with things like IDS & IPS working across the VLANs?

Excellent video, info and example setup. I especially liked the back end of the video detailing the ACLs. Thank you so much! You said there is plenty more could be done, do you have another video that might be food for thought?

Thi svideo has detailed EACTLY what I wanted from my new Omada network, I did everything basically identical, save IP addresses... and passwords.

Thanx Sir your Video get help me

Thanks!

Great video! Interested in how this setup would work with the Deco mesh APs, or with another manufacturer's mesh APs.

Very similar to Unifi, BUT I liked the blocking rules in Omada better

One little point I notice with most people that setup networks is that they never seem to test their choice of DNS servers. You (and others) may find the 'DNS Benchmark' tool by Steve Gibson enlightening/useful... (Gibson Research produces it)

awesome! thanks!

Excellent overview. I've been debating moving beyond consumer wifi to a much more granular setup like this. I considered going with the Netgate4100 PFsense appliance with Omada devices behind it as a buy-once, cry-once.

thank you soo much ❤

Thank you

thank you....

Thanks

Great video

Thanks.

Thanks for your videos, I really enjoy watching them. I have taken your advice to heart, and I have now upgraded my Home Network from a standard ISP provided Router, to a TP-Link Omada managed Network. This video has been so useful, and really helped me with the setup. I also need to give a big Shout-out to the TP-Link support people, who have been so helpful with some other issues I faced, as I was building my new Network. However, I do have one issue, which I’d love to see you make a video on. Which is, how can I connect my old Landline phone, to my new TP-Link Network? My current standard ISP provided Router has a built in RJ11 plug, and I just need to connect the phone into that jack, to make the home phone work. However, I haven’t been able to find any TP-Link gear that has an included RJ11 socket. So, do I just need a RJ11 to RJ45 adaptor and then setup a dedicated Voice Network, or do I need some extra gear, like a VOPI Gateway (if so, any recommendations)? Otherwise, if I can just get away with a RJ11 to RJ45 adaptor and a dedicated Voice Network, it would be good if you could demonstrate the setup for this. Thanks in advance for any pointers you could give on this issue. 😊

Thanks Chris... everything worked nicely today. The only issue I encountered was my WAN configuration, which was easily solved by my ISP (iiNet) support person. Request... how about showing us how to set-up a L2PT VPN...

to what wifi or network are you connected to when doing the inital config, especially for when scanning qr

Would love to see you look at UniFi vs omada set up at the basic, average and advanced level hardware similar to some of your past videos. Omada hardware is available but not sure how close it comes to UniFi gear. What’s your thoughts on Omada?

Awesome!!

Great video. I've been having a lot of issues with Ubiquiti lately and my patience has run out. I plan on switching to Omada in the near future. The only thing I didn't like about Omada are the smaller smart switch price of $60ea. My setup will be similar.. ER7206 -> TL-SG2210P V3 -> OC200 - EAP650 AP - Easy Smart 5 Port Gigabit PoE Switch x3. I'll be using this video as a guide when I get everything together.

Hi Chris. Great vodeos and quite useful. Thank you for that. This is a very interesting solution for a home setup. My question is if one adds up a few AP can they ve setup as a mesh wireless network for seamless comnection throughout the house like with ubiquity?

More videos with pfsense integration please.

Great video, really helped me understand this system. I started laying out this system for a small business. Right now we have 4 desktops, a NAS, and a Brother 3-in-one directly connected to an unmanaged switch. I am mainly going to use the Omada to setup a mesh system to connect WiFi cameras around several other buildings (along with providing senate WiFi to those buildings). I am assuming I could keep them on the unmanaged switch connected to a wan/lan port on the ER605 and I could isolate them from the remainder of the network? Thanks for any help.

Muito boa a explicação

Great video, it gave me the confidence to get the same kit and set it up myself. Two questions for the community : 1) If I connect my laptop directly to the switch with ethernet, how does it know which vlan to put me on? 2) I set up a guest portal so that users have to log in. This works great but to get it to work you have to allow the guest network to see the omada controller, which is on the secure network. So I had to remove the acl preventing the guest network from accessing the secure network. What can I put in place to make this secure again? thanks!

Hey, Chris thanks so much for the video. I am upgrading my 13-year-old ASUS router to your solutions. I am now retired but my wife is still working and her boss is allowing her to work from home. To that end, with all the money we are saving on gas purchases, I am upgrading my system based on your video. My internet connection is AT&T 1GB Fiber BG210 fiber modem. My house size is 3800sqf two levels brick front with at least two CAT 5 drops in every room. My shopping list today to cover this and outside is (ER605 VPN, TL-SG1024DE Switch, TL-SG1005P POE, EAP650 x 2 back of the bedrooms house left and right side, and EAP670 front of the house. I can't start today the TL-SG1024DE Switch won't be until tomorrow. Meanwhile, I have an old dell laptop in the closet I am installing Windows 10 and the controller software. Then I give all this shot. I use Flight Simulation 2020 and Formula 1 simulation software along with my son who does a lot more when he is here. I have 9 grandkids who visit with all their devices. So my smart home has over 100 wireless devices. HERE'S TO HOPING ALL THIS WORKS AND MY WIFE HAS A PRIVATE CONNECTION TO HER JOB THAT WILL BE ROCK SOLID FOR THE TRAINING SHE DOES.

Great video Chris. I am considering TPlink because its so hard to get UniFi hardware I need.

superhelpful! I'm researching what AP to use with Firewalla Purple. I'm considering EAP610 with the OC200 along with the FWPurple.

I was hoping you would cover VPN getting on certain network only and similar scenarios

Great video, I am planing to do multi story/floor setup in the future, can you show how to setup WPA2-Enterprise where the password determine which vlan you will be on with seamless roaming

Really well explained, this helped me achieve a very similar setup which serves its purpose . Thank you! One question: The ACL which you demonstrate that blocks traffic from the IoT to the Secure network - is that the equivalent of activating the "guest" flag in an SSID?

Thanks for all the great info, but I was wondering about how good is the firewall or can you intergrate pfSense with the Omada system instead of using the tp link firewall?

For a home network, that could be streaming between devices like computers to Roku or phones to Roku, having a separate "Secure" network doesn't seem to make as much sense as it would be an absolute pain swapping networks constantly. It's the old security vs ease of use thing. I'd prefer to see a video on routing video streaming from a secure network to an IoT network so a phone on a secure network, and as such private and protected, could cast across to the IoT network securely

Excellent video. Sounds like something I can do. HOWEVER, our service is a DSL and I don't know if the TP-Link Omada is doable.

I have a couple of configuration questions on the Omada controller (I'm using the OC300): 1. Several of my IoT devices are wired. How do I get them to a specific VLAN? It looks like my only choice is assigning specific ports on the switch to that VLAN, but are there other ways to accomplish this? 2. How can I have devices on the Guest network be able to print to a wired printer? I'm guessing that I'll have to: a. Create new networks (wired and wireless) for this "guest" network. b. Put the printer on the wired "guest" network via VLAN assignment on that switch port. c. Use Network ACLs to allow access to the printer from that "group" wireless network, and to prevent access to anything else in that or the main "secure" network. (How do I accomplish this?) Am I missing anything?

Interesting even if I can't do the VLAN bit yet :) I'm still using a consumer grade router with WIFI on it with a switch connected to it. The switch odes VLAN but the router does not. Since I installed an EAP225 (PoE-switch, though I might have to use an injector with the new 610) some time back I disabled the built-in WIFI of the router and let the EA225 handle that part. Have an EAP 610 on its way to me and was thinking of switching the 225 for the 610 in the same spot and then have the 225 in a mesh with it. The plan is to move away from that older router to something (prebuilt or homebrew) that does VLAN so I can isolate some stuff on my network.

You can reserve ip address on DHCP, but the common practice is what is recommended in the video.

Can you do a video on dual WAN with starlink and your cable internet .. fail over or backup

can you do a video on remote adoption from outside the local network

Thanks for the video Chris. Any word if a multi tenant/customer controller is coming?

This is awesome stuff!! Thank you so much for all this information is super helpful. Do you know if there is a way with all this setup to have a schedule "timer" on certain devices? ... Ex. No internet for playstation during the night :P

Great video. What do you like better: Unifi or Omada? I'm building a network at my new home. I had Unifi in the past with the original cloud key. It was problematic.

Loved this video very much. Only question as i progress froward How would you share network printers (EPSON) on your secure network to allow printing say off of your iphone on the IOT Network>. Thanks!

Seems like a nice system. I'll have to give it a try. Do you know how the performance is? Will it be able to keep up with a 1000/1000 fiber connection? I also noticed you used a network tool on your phone. Which one is it? I've previously tried a wifi scanner from the google app store and it was honestly not so great. LinSSID on a laptop worked better for me but I would really like something on my phone as it's easier to carry around.

Thanks for the great video. I'm trying to decide if I need a Smart Managed switch or not, like the SG2210MP you demo'd in the video. I would like the ability to setup the different VLANs as you did in the video. However I don't think I need much more capability or L2 features (other than IGMP Snooping). When you setup the different VLANs and Static/DHCP configurations, was that done at the ER605 Router level, or did you need the SG2210MP switch to do that? Thank-you.

This is a great video and helped me with my initial setup. I ran into one difference between options on screen you show and my setup. On the ACL setup around 22:40 in, my screen does not have an option for Destination type of Network, only IP Group and IP-Port Group. I went back to through my LAN settings and can't find any differences from what you did. Any help is appreciated. BTW, I am using the windows software controller, not the device.

Does anyone know where the heck Airtime Fairness setting is!? I can't find it for the life of me! Thank you for this video! I was afraid of how to set it up for my IoT devices and this helped a ton!

Great video. I want to replace an Edgerouter lite with outdated firmware. What is current firmware policy for TP Link Omada devices?

Thanks for explaining this whole process in an easy manner. but is there any alternative to the current 4 items you have mentioned for only making 4 VLANs? The currently mentioned items are beyond my budget (which is almost 1/4 of this setup)

Would like to see review of ER707-M2

Great tutorial! I currently have a tl-r600vpn wired router managing my home LAN , would you say that switching to the er605 would make it more secure? The tl r600vpn hasn't had a firmware update since 2014

Damn Bro. Never seen you before but the title of this video should have been “Solve Zach’s Issues In Detail” Amazing. And done at a level that even I could understand with a minimum of condescension. Thanks again. I have added you to my favorites.

Hi, thank you for this excellent video ! What you think about TP-Link TL-ER7212PC (3 in 1 device) for a Small Business like a Real Estate Office? Instead using this setup with OC200+ER605+TL-SG2210MP ? Waiting your reply ! Many Thks ! 🙏

Thanks for the video. There is one detail that I found out. Once you block the IoT network from entering LAN, it works. However, that ACL entry also blocks the LAN network from reaching IoT network. I tried creating another ACL entry with Allow from LAN to IoT, but no Joy.

It takes so long for the OC200 to reboot - if you just connect it to usb power - then you can pull the cable out and put it back in the alternate slot and it will get new ip almost instantly .

Hi Sir thank for your video.. But can possible setup trunking protocol in omada controller

About to do this with my Starlink which I’m set to receive next month. Anything to look out for other than putting the router in bridge mode?

Thanks for this complete presentation. I noticed that you don't enable the default Vlan on the Secure Wlan. On my configuration, when I enable it this Wlan doesn't work anymore. Is it for the same reason you don't enable it ? Does anybody know why it doesn't work ? Thanks for your help.

Hi, Could you do a demonstration setup of VLANs on TP-Link Omada and a Synology NAS?

This is timely, as I have pretty much this system. (Thanks in part to your videos!), and still need to set up VLANs, as well as an LTE failover. Any suggestions as how I can increase the speed of the failover timing? Starlink as primary and LTE over a Netgear LM1200? I'm sure you've already answered in your videos, just haven't had time to find them. Thanks for your videos!

The website has been updated since this video. What's the difference between client rate limit and SSID rate limit? For guests, should they both be set the same?

Hey Chris... Have you seen the new Omada Cloud-Based Controller license offering running on AWS? I just signed up for a 1 month trial. It does have 2FA. Also it looks like they will be offering a integrated router ER7212PC at some point. Maybe you can find when/what it looks like?