Complete TP-Link Omada Setup Guide for Home (2022) 

Got kit arriving tomorrow and I think this video has just given me everything I need to get set up. Very clear and easy to follow. Great work. Thank you.

Thanks bro. I got the controller, the router, and the switch set up exactly as I wanted thanks to your video.

Can't wait to set things up for my new house. Big thanks for the this tutorial.

I really appreciate that you didn’t assume The audience has any foreknowledge of setting up a network. I’m considering this setup for my place and am now a bit more confident that I can handle the technical side.

Watching several of your videos. Super excited to get a similar setup going. I am going to use three EAP615-walls around the house instead of the single AP. This will be my first attempt to have major upgrade to the home network. I am also going to have a Disney Circle on the kids vlan. Circle is my lazy solution for managing their screen time on devices.

Thanks, very clear

Really good video. I can't wait to setup my own tplink omada network!!!

As a fan of the TP-Link Omada line, adding the hardware (even software) controller to your APs is truly an amazing experience. It makes your APs a mesh, and makes setup/adding a new AP around 5 clicks, less if you setup your SSIDs as default. I've deployed 6 mesh networks for business customers of mine, and I am currently testing/deploying one in my home, keeping the Synology router (due to amazing, and free, content filtering (I've got kids)). Keep up the good work, TP-Link! My one request would be expanding a bit in your switch lineup, possibly a half PoE 48 port version with the 10 GbE ports. I've got a few clients where that would be a perfect fit.

That's my last set up to complete everything and that part holding me back sorry I'm totally new on this but at the same time I'm been putting all my effort to keep leaning

This is an excellent guide, thank you. I went with the same hardware, and it was pretty easy to set up. The only problem I ran into was setting up the wireless Guest network and integrating it with the VLAN. Updated all firmware, tried multiple times, rechecking steps, but it simply would not assign IP addresses, at all. Not sure what the issue is, but there seems to be chatter on Reddit from others with this issue.

Thanks.

This is looking very tempting as a replacement to Ubiquiti UniFi gear. The UI is so similar but what I'm curious about is if you can SSH into a device and for example run "show run -all" and take the output and put into a script to reload rules via the CLI. To me this would make a HUGE difference in being able to script out installs and not have to rely on exporting and importing the config files that may or may not be compatible with the next version of firmware as I've had issues with before in UniFi and have to reconfigure via the GUI.

Perfect.. 👍

Hi. Please make a video reviewing the wireless mesh of eap660hd with another and comparing their speed tests with the wired backhaul. Thank you

Awesome video!! I'm looking to setup 2 or 3 EAP's at my moms house. What would be easy to setup IE, Router, POE Switch, EAP?

Thanks!

Great video! Looking into setting up similar setup but with 200 clients for a small office network. What other hardware is needed to cater 200 clients?

Thanks for this video! I just got in a bunch of TP Link Omada Hardware that I'm planning to put in a new house - thanks to this video, which convinced me I could handle it :) A quick question for you - my setup is essentially what you showed here. I'd like to set it up and test it at my old place (ATT Fiber and ATT Modem running bridge to my Eero Pro 6s), without messing with my current setup - is there any issue you can think of with setting this up without connecting to the internet or my current network?

Great guide with step by step instructions. Thanks! Is there a way to share a printer between different vlans?

This is far more complicated than I ever expected. I’ll be using this as a guide for sure. Sheesh

Thanks for the walk-through, it was very helpful for me to set up my own Omada setup. What rules would I need to set up for my devices to cast to my google chromecasts on a different VLAN? I've been trying to no avail, and my family is getting annoyed at my tinkering.

Thanks! Found you, initially, as you are an ATT subscriber as am I, and I also have a public IP block that I'm trying to get a homelab ESXi server accessible to other people in my work group for homelabbing together. Good stuff. Saw another comment down the list, and you used IP passthrough ? Not Cascaded router ?

Great video! but I think I found an error at 17:25, if you want to block OC and router, you need to select 192.168.10.1 in your set up, nstead you went with 20.

Thank you for such an awesome tutorial. I watched it yesterday and I'm following along again today as I set up I my own Omada network. I have a few questions though. At 10:00 you began creating 3 separate VLANs for kids, IPcameras and guests. You left the purpose as interface, but you also had an option to set it as VLAN. Then at 15:40 you began to creating rules to isolate the kids network from the other VLANs and block access to the router. So what's the difference between setting the purpose to interface vs VLAN? Had you set the purpose to VLAN, would you still have to create those rules? And what are the benefits if doing it the way you did it?

AYE!!!! totally planning on setting this up at my folks house

If you have issues adopting devices after changing the IP range, restart them, they will then not keep trying to access the original range dhcp.

Hi, I think you have done an amazing job explaining the programming of the GUI and all the offerings that Omanda has with their new platform. I have installed several systems already. The problem is, No one tells us how to separate the devices to the V-lans that you teach us how to set up. If I want to put all my IOT devices in a V-lan, I’m clueless. It seems it would be easy for a hard wired device, but not so easy with wireless.. Please advise. BRB

Very informative setup. I have been using 3 EAP245s with the controller software. I was wondering if you have videos going more in-depth on writing rules for kids devices using this software? thanks!

Hey Love your videos and thanks so much for all the information! I do have a quick question, for a home setup would it be possible to use only the router(TP-Link ER605/TL-R605)+cloud controller(TP-LINK OC200)+2 AP´s (TP-Link EAP235 each with its own POE injectors) BUT using an unmanaged switch (TP-Link LS1008G)? If I´m not going to setup an advance levels of access between devices?

Very nice video, I wonder if you have something to explain how to share a NAS on to vlan's. I have the ER7206 v1.0, OC200 and TL-SG3428X v1.0.

Looks good. However, I am happy with my UniFi setup for now. Replaced the USG 3P with a Protectli Vault running OPNSense firewall/router. Also replaced the UAP-AC-PRO with the UAP-U6-Lite. Upstairs I have the UAP-AC-LR. It's been rock solid with zero issues.

So I’m looking for a switch that has 8 or 16 PoE and 16 ports total to connect to the router. Do they have anything that works the same with the oc controller? Where I have all the control and stats?

TP-LINK makes decent hardware. Will be considering it over the ASUS stuff I have now in the future. TP-Link is a good compromise I think if you can't afford the more expensive stuff. I only wished the AX3600 wasn't so gigantic. Are you planning to do a review of those wireless mesh access points eventually like the AX3000 ?

This worked great. Until yesterday. I had set this up for a small church several months ago ahead of an internet service installation. There was a backlog for the cable company so we were on "the waiting list." This was July 2022. So, I went ahead and installed 3 EAP225 and the ER605, OC200, and a TL-SG2218 and used an ethernet bridge connected to VZ hotspot to test; all systems worked perfectly. Then the wait. Yesterday, Cox came in like gangbusters and set up the wrong modem. I ordered a basic business modem, without router or wifi. See, the church wanted to rent the modem, since it was only $5 month. Lightning strikes are common here and more than one microwave and phone system has been fried at this location, so they figured they'd rather Cox be on the hook for a replacement. While I was out of the room the tech installed and configured the AIO modem. Had I seen him take it out of the box, I'd have stopped him. It shouldn't have been a problem, but the gods were angry yesterday. The tech left and came back with the right modem. Still, nothing worked right, not even wired connections. So, I reset all hardware to factory and started over. I tried clearing the routing tables, etc, praying, crying, but I gave up. I did the hard reset and followed your video again. Wired connections work now and work well, but the EAPs only connect to windows devices with no internet. Chrome, Android, and Mac devices throw DHCP errors and fail to connect Looks like the EAPs are not passing DHCP to any of those devices. I have since done hard resets to everything and I am getting the same results.

Awesome video! While I have 15-20 witless devices at any given time. Is this controller worth having if I only have one access point, router, switch, and a few other wired devices?

Got a EAP660 this weekend, going to set it up next weekend. Any issues I might face trying to set this up connected to a pfSense router and using a Docker version of the Controller rather than a physical one?

at 15:20 what is the difference between choosing All or Allvlans for port 1? Since All vlans are in this profile I guess this makes no differences? at 10:12 you create Lan kids with only Lan interface 'lan' checked. While the default Lan has all the interfaces checked, what makes the difference then between these 2 lans?

Hi my question is can we also make a vlan gateway ip for each vlan without using omada controller?

Thanks for your videos! I have followed your video guide and its great. Do I need to apply the same rules you created for Kids network on the EAP ACL to the Switch ACL for the kids wired devices to have the same rules?

Do you have a similar video but instead of AP, one with a mesh system? By the way, what's the cost to have this system set up? Thank you for this video.

Does your ISP router have to be in bridge mode before you start configuring the omada setup ?? Can you do it without being in bridge mode. I have been trying to adopt the er605 router using the controller no poe switch just the router conneted to the omada controller. I edit the lan to 192.168.10.1/24 but the e605 will try to adopt but wont ??

Nice howto, is it possible to connect switches from other manufactures like zyxel for example…? Poe will come over the tplink Adapters. And also if already available could I use here my ubi edgerouter 4 too…?

Great video and setup. Only running into 1 problem. Controller keeps going back into adopting EAPs, switch and router. Any idea how to correct?

What is the VPN router for? Can you use any other normal router? also, what is the controller for?

I just ordered AX3600 Wifi 6, already have the ER605 router and that feeds my 16 port TL-SG116. I try to hardwire every device where possible. That includes my firesticks, Sonos Speakers, and HA hubs. What I am wondering is if I put that AX3600 up on the top floor in the middle of my house (2 story with basement, 3000 sqaure feet, floors are 25*60). Do you think that coverage and bandwidth will be good enough top to bottom for basically phones, laptop and a few other WiFi devices like light bulbs... My other option for placement is on the middle floor on a far fall. I think that might be a better place, but I am not sure if it will cause issues since I have 4 HA Wink, hubitat, Lutron and Philips hubs there. Is the only benefit of the controller to have one central place for configuration? I plan to wire the AX3600 to one of my WAN\LAN ports on the ER605. Is that OK or would it be better to put it on the switch?

Did you put your AT&T router in Passthrough and turn off all the firewall stuff? Does the TP Link have firewalls setup by default? I have the same setup coming and also a AT&T router so just curious what to do there. Thanks!

Very informative. But can I add another router in one of the ports of Sg2210₱?

You said you were enabling the guest network setting for the Guest SSID so it can't access devices on the other subnets. Does that setting also block access to other devices on its own subnet? If I want a roommate to have their own wireless network and subnet and allow their devices to see each other (but not devices on any other subnets), what settings are needed?

How do you get the switch to be a device instead of a client. When I set this system up it ended up as a client ???

Hello, for the specific setup of those devices, do we need the specific router or we can proceed with the router of the ISP ?

Watching this at work, hopefully this helps when I try to troubleshoot it at home. I have everything connected, but it's weird because access point WiFi isn't connecting to the internet, so I think it's the VPN router. Oddly, I can only see one security camera on access point WiFi (even though it says it's not connected to the internet), so I think my other cameras might be connected straight to the modem, which is why I can see them on the modems wifi.

I’m looking for the strongest and fastest WiFi. I have a lot of devices. A one story home with a basement. I’m using 6 google nest access points and they are pretty good. But I still have some slow areas. My router also sends out its own WiFi under a different name and it is much slower. What can I do to seep things up. Should I see how to sit off the router WiFi and let the google one do it’s thing or do a setup as your video shows and put a access point upstairs and downstairs with that bigger disk??

Wifi 6 ap hanging on a 1g link?

i live in delhi and tp link 710 is installed in my office there is no net at home so i can use office net to use home net my home is 25 kms away from office between which traffic signals multi all If I live in Delhi, then I put airspace on its tower, then I live in their bungalows in the basement of my house and second, if I put the tower in my balcony above, will it work, how much range can it cover? Will it cover a range of 25 kms?

Hello! Thanks for the video as its helping setup my first home network. I wanted to ask, when you set the static IPs of the switch and access point, you specified the DNS to be the IP of the router and you said you were doing it "for now". When/Why would you want to set it with a different value? Also, at arount 17:40 you were creating rules to block access to the OC and Router but you specified IPs like 192 168 20 1 when the router was actually 192 168 10 1. Should it really be 20 or did you eventually changed it? Thanks for helping!

I recently bought the ax3600 because I was giving an aruba hp poe+ switch from work. Its currently in standalone mode. Its the only tp link device I have. I shut off the wifi on my isp provided device. Speeds improved even on my 802.11ac devices. Only have one ax and its hardwired. Anyway, so I can do all the vlan stuff with the Omada controller then? Dont have to configure anything on the switch? Have no cameras or anything like that. Live with my parents still. Id like to restrict their wireless devices from my devices. I pay for our internet and handle all that stuff. My parents don't know much about tech. And if they ever get a virus I dont want it crossing over to my stuff. Especially my network storage I recently starting putting all my backups on. I wasnt going to do a controller because I only have one tp link device. But, it sounds like it may be worth hosting myself on the same machine that has my network storage. Its an old lenovo d30 work was throwing away. Dual exons and has 48GB of ram. Shame to let that device just be a nas. Haha thanks in advance for any help.

Trying to decide between the Omada router vs getting a custom router and running Pfsense on it. What are the pro's/con's for the omada router you have discovered?

I have the ER7206 router, SG2210P switch, and 4 EAP610 APs, 2 upstairs and two down. With just a single SSID based on my LAN, signal strength is great on all APs. When I setup a VLAN fir my IoT devices for wired and wireless with a separate SSID, I get no internet for . Ideas?

Stumbled onto this while researching/looking for APs for my home. I'm confused about the purpose of the Controller. Am I to understand that you need that to be able to configure your hardware? So each piece of equipment is "dumb" and unconfigurable without it? Just wondering. Seems like a pretty sweet setup but seems like an extra piece of equipment that I don't understand the purpose for. At for use at home. Personally, I'm looking for something very similar to what's in this video: A router to connect to the ISP, a switch for my wired hosts, and an access point with 2 ethernet connections to place downstairs (since my ISP is wired in upstairs). The ports on the AP would be to 1 connect to the LAN and the other to pass-through to (another switch) to my DirecTV and my TV set. TMI I guess. Anyway, what's the point of the controller?

Would you recommend a hardware based firewall for this setup?

Hi Stephano, i really like to build this set up at my home. I just bought eap235 wall AP, 2 pcs eap115 Wall AP, and eap110 AP and planning to buy some omada VPN router.. Just one question, i have old but still great TP Link poe+ switch, but it is unmanaged, can i still use it? What disadvantage not using Jetstream Omada Switch ? Thank you for your kindly advise 🙏🏻

Hi there. Very useful video Thank you. Quick question: I have a TL-SG2008P, an OC-200 and an ER-605. Can I user a Netgear nightwawk as the AP? Will it work? or do I need to buy also a TP Link AP?

I do not have the OC200 controller so Im using the software. Are the settings still in effect, specially th VLANS and the ACLs even if the software is not running?

Any chance to show how to do qos on omada with vlans?

I'm new to all this and I'm working on updating my network at home and your videos have been very helpful, I wanted to ask how many wireless accounts you can have or create, if there is a limit.

I had to return the VPN router, every time I logged into the controller, the router would go back to adoption / provisioning mode and it would take a while

Trying to find what is max switching throughput of ER605 when configured with 1xWAN and 2xLAN (think this is software switch)? Have 700/100 link and want to configuration only with ER605 and 2xEAP245. But don't know that they can work full speed.

Thanks for this video. Is there a way you can block P2P websites and downloading using an ER605? Thank you.

Is there a router that will give me better vpn speed? The ipsec on this thing is only 42mbps

Looks good and great... I need to know if i use it for home solution with one ssid and one password for all at home..doni need to use mesh..or i can use this to make one same ssid for all access points

do I need a gigabit omada hardware? I have a gigabit bandwidth. all of my omada compatible access points are gigabit capable. I'm not sure if I need a gigabit omada (OC300) over 10/100mbps omada (OC200). I don't know if any bandwidth will be running through omada. as far as I know, omada only manage the EAPs.

When setting up the Deny OC & Router group, is there a reason you didn't include the IP Camera and Guest networks? Wouldn't you want to deny them access to the controller and router IPs and ports, in addition to blocking the Kids network?

Hello how you doing, I finally set up my home lab and I follow all your steps/setting but got a little confused where you set up the IP-port group, How did you get the IP subnet, here's were I got confused since the OCandRouter has a different default IP already you set up from the beginning .. Why you set it up with 192.168.20.1

I have been trying to add my wifi cameras that are connected to a NVR to a vlan..Before i start should i take my nvr and cameras off of static ip address?Thank you

Just bought this exact setup and I need another small switch for the location where my pc, printer, scanner, are located. What Omada switch do you recommend that pairs well with 2210MP?

Hi there, I see that on you configuration you don't get any issue when you change the ip range of the LAN. On my configuratuion, when I change the IP range, my netgear AP don't work anymore. I don't know whay. Can you please tell me, do I need to reset my AP to config again for that ? Thnx in advance>

Hi SPX, what would be the counterpart of Ubiquiti's DPI to Omada, if there is any? Thanks

With a poe switch can you change a poe port to a normal lan port? because i have some poe ports i dont use and i want to change it to a lan port

Hi and thanks for the video. I have a very simple setup, the ER605 acting as a router for my single home LAN. I'm going crazy not able to block a fixed IP device within my LAN from inbound/outbound internet (WAN) connection. How can I do this using the ER605 admin panel? I previously owned the TL-R600VPN and this was very easy to do, but the admin panel of the ER605 changed completely and can't understand the Firewall's Access Control menu . Thanks

Do i need to buy the tp-link vpn router for the omada setup to work? I already have a really good router. Don't want to replace it.

Can I use a Unifi access point with this setup?

Hi Sir. I just got my ER7026 and OC300. I’ve been tinkering with it for a few days now. If I may ask, how come you needed to setup a rule under Network Security/ACL to restrict access between VLANs but you didn’t do it in the video below ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sc5eNPjeygQ.html I noticed you didn’t setup network security but the vlan still wasn’t able to access the router and the controller. Could you help me sort out my confusion? Thank you so much.

Can you use the AP without the controller?

Can all this be mounted in a rack. I have yet to see that

i read that the OC200 can only control 2-series APs. Not your 3-series AX one?

hi do you have video how to block wifi sharing in my er605 and oc200 wifi voucher thnks if you read my message..

I've been given an omada setup, but my question is, what's the difference between the hardware controller and the wifi controller? I have the wifi controller, and I'm curious what I'm missing out on without the hardware controller.

i has installed vmbase omada controller , added 24 MAC under single SSID but now recently added MAC id user unable to connect to SSID ..getting event logs as channel 1 because the Association times out.(1 time in a minute).please suggest

Seems like Omada routers does not support any LAG/LACP to switches, is that correct?

Sir i have a question.Is TP Link ER605 is safe to use for Starlink?

Does the ER605 have a DNS server, ER7206 doesn't?

I got the Omada setup without a managed switch and I'm using the software Omada controller. Is there a way I can make a printer discoverable across all LANs? Right now if I'm on the Guest LAN with my Android, it does not find the Printer which is on the LAN network.

Ok I’m doing exactly why you ew doing here since I have the same equipment you have here, I’ll let you know Friday how it went

Hey, so i have a question in regards to the vlan setup. So let’s say your kids are all connected to the kids vlan and your home printer is connected to an IoT vlan. How could the kids vlan communicate with the printer?

Why would you need to create a new "AllVLANs" profile when you already have the existing "All" profile which has the tagged networks?

after change the oc200 ip address to static, it doesn't work properly... everytime is offline

hello brother show how to reset Tplink EAP653

What is the Coverage Range of this AP in meters?

Is there a reason why my VLANS won't communicate with each other? I'm trying to ping from a machine on one VLAN to a machine on the main LAN and it wont work going either way. I know it was said in the video that all networks were able to communicate with each other by default, but mine aren't.

Im a newbie, what’s the purpose of assigning addresses?