TP-Link Omada Walkthrough - GUI, Settings, VLANs, and my general thoughts 

Thanks for this Raid Owl, I was able to help a small high school from a province to setup their own hotspot for students this walkthrough is very straightforward and helped me to do all the necessary configurations with my omada OC200 and EAP110

Something "clicked" in my poor old brain while watching this. I was under the impression that I would need a second router in order to set up a sub-net; but this demo helped me understand the concept of VLAN--even though it's not a vlan tutorial. I've watched countless vlan tutorials in the past, but never really got my head around it until now. I guess I'm a slow learner, but something about Raid Owl's style works for me. 👍

Your face after setting VLAN 69 made me LOL. Thanks for this video.

The best video I have seen to understand what I needed .Thank you so much

Thanks for your excellent work. You make it very clear and I learnt a lot.

came across you channel. ordered 2 AC1350's from amazon for $60 each. tired of these low end routers and need the bandwidth control because of my kids and vlan so they don't have access to my server etc etc. I'm excited for this step. I will order the rest of the equipment down the road, but will start small. good video. thanks

Great Video 😊. Thank You.

I usually deploy this stuff, minus their gateway, the OMADA management is great for easy management stuff for the managed switch and APs. So when im creating new LAN I usually just go with "VLAN" as the purpose setting since setting it to interface assumes you have a OMADA compatible firewall/router.

Hey Raid Owl, great video thanks. I'm currently looking to upgrade my home network and i'm considering purchasing this system. A question I have is, can you add a paid vpn service (i.e. express vpn, nord ect) to either a vlan, or have it configured to hide all of your home network?

I, currently, am using the 605 router with both my Starlink and my ISP. I'm looking to add a controller and access points in the near future.

thanks for the guide. great work. regarding the acl rules, if the eap are wired to the switch, switch acl rules would apply. I have two switches and blocking vlan communications works like a charm with switch acl only. If an iot client is wired it would bypass eap acl rule! source: I have wired clients on my iot network (my smart tv) ps: you need to uprade your controller firmware in order for OpenVPN to work. Your setup is good, upgrade firmware, export the certificate to your client and enjoy! just make sure to allocate a subnet that is not in use.

Thanks.

I just bought a bunch of this stuff a week ago. your omada controller and router firmware are a bit behind in firmware revisions. update your omada controller first through maintenance, then enable cloud access which will allow you to go to the device list and click the blue "check for updates" arrow on the versions field. I'm running omada 4.4.4 and router 1.1.1 firmware. when I check my vpn settings, at the top I have a seperate tab for "vpn user". hope that helps

This was very helpful, and i'm planning on replacing my FIOS router with the ER605 as well. I'm trying to figure out what else i want/need to change though, because i have 3 Netgear unmanaged switches around the house, and 1 Netgear access point as well. I am curious to see how the ER605 will see them all, and i was going to run the software controller because i have a server running 24x7. Do you have a recommendation on what's the best course of action on if i should replace the switches, or just see how it works once i get it rolled out?

Great video! I know I’m doing something wrong but when I check off VLAN in the wireless network settings and assign to a VLAN, devices won’t connect to it. If I uncheck VLAN devices then connect. I even assigned to default VLAN and still no connection. It’s just the EAP670 connected right to the ER605. Sure I’m missing something if you have any ideas. Appreciate the videos very helpful and well done. 👍

9:55, does this option means enabling inter-vlan routing on the switch (assuming it is assigned to a port on the switch), thus, the traffic is routed by the switch instead of through the router?

TP Link Omada is pretty solid for a simple Prosumer setup where you want more security, ssid options, and want to implement POE instead of taking up power outlets. Deploying it in my parents house because they have alot of power outages and the poe with a nice sized UPS will help solve alot of they're problems and give them more security. My only issues with Omada are the way they implement Vlans compared to unifi and the lack of mDNS in they're ecosystem (at least so far) The Vlans are restricted both ways as opposed to Unifi they are restricted one way which make casting to a chromecast or TV a nightmare.

while creating New lan can i select option Vlan only and create vlan eg 25 and trunk specific ports connected to access points to carry valn 25 and native vlan both?

Let say you are not on the LAN, is it possible to remote configure the omada cloud controller? If so, how?

You may want to upgrade your controller for the VPN user configuration. On mine I see an additional tab "VPN User" next to "VPN" to add my users

Greetings : My setup has 1) Router TL ER7206 (With 2 internet vendors) 2) Switch TL2210P 3) Various TP Link AP's like TL245 ,EAP 110b,.. 4) TP link Deco Mesh of X60 scattered around my home with ethernet backhaul. The Deco is configured as AP. 5) Two WAN connections on the Router , Primary (500 Mbps) on SFP WAN and the other as a Back Up (100 Mbps) on WAN. 6) Load balancing Weight set at 5:1 7) The set up works well if the Primary SFP WAN fails and the Back Up takes over . 8) I would like to direct all traffic on the Switch Port 3 to the Router WAN port (not the SFP WAN port) I look forward to your assistance if this can be setup. Thanks

What omada soft conn version has an interface option in creating vlan?

Thanks for the video! Maybe a dumb question, but will the Omada switches/controller with a pfsense router?

I made a ssid (home network) set it to vlan 1 and it would not let me access the controller but with out the vlan it will let me. Confused lol I thought the main vlan let you access the main guei

I bought an Tp link omada switch with the omada controller. It's an 8 port switch. I want to aggregate 2 ports for my qnap nas. I have tried it multiple times but I can't seem to get it to work. Any tips...

does it have settings to disable wifi tethering? I want to disable wifi sharing.

I cant find TCO or UDP input for port forwarding my.PS5 anywhere!

How to download omada controller on mac?

Question... So at 13:35 you blocked "iOT" from Main network.. At the bottom, you created the rule network to network.. Understood.. So does this mean that only info on the iOT network can NOT access the main network but the main network CAN access things on the iOT network? So if I had a camera on my iOT netowork I wouldn't have to worry about traffic coming from the iOT network but I still could access it and configure the camera on the iOT network. Wheeewww. I hope that makes sense lol.

Can I ask a question please... I have purchased a lot of tplink items mentioned in this video, including the router and controller. My question is can you add devices from different manufacturers within the map. Ie if I had net gear switch will it detect it or will it only detect tplink items.

Missed WAN type connection, like ppoe etc

Is there a way to configure it so that certain clients (children’s devices) have time based access to the internet. E.g 30 mins a day or from 6pm to 7pm.

Hi Raid Owl, thanks for the informative videos, this convinced me to go witn TP Link for my home instead of Unify but I'm having different result as to you as I'm having issues with VLAN to VLAN connectivity? I have a strange behaviour where my VLAN1 can't access any device on VLAN172, but all devices in VLAN172 can acces both VLANs. TP Link support insist that is the device firewalls. I'm finding it difficult to believe my MacBook and Windows machine became VLAN aware out of the blue. Because everything works as expected on VLAN172 but not on VLAN1.

wrong browser or worng controller version . there is on top vpn user tab there

With Omada, when enabling features, does it slow down network traffic? For example, I currently use a TP-Link Archer AX3000 V1 consumer router. With the traffic log disabled in this router, my reported download Internet bandwidth according to Speedtest is about 940 Mbps (I have a 1200 Mbps download/35 Mbps upload connection from Comcast/Xfinity). However, if I enable the traffic log, the download speed drops to a little over 600 Mbps. Dropping over 300 Mbps just for enabling the traffic log is quite excessive. As Omada is meant for businesses, I would hope that it would have enough processing power and memory for advanced logging and statistics, without slowing Internet and LAN traffic. However, it would be appreciated if this could be confirmed.

my vlans not working. can you help???

I just wish the controller and router were in a rackmount format

HOW DID YOU INSTALL THAT ON MAC WITH ONLY CLOUD BASED CONTROLLER? GREAT VIDEO!!!!

The ridiculous thing about Omada setups like this is that they have no concept of established connections. I cannot for instance have a rule that allows me to initiate a connection from my main network into my IOT Vlan and have it respond. If I set up a rule blocking traffic from IOT to main then it blocks REPLY packets as well which is brain dead.. I cant block my IOT network containing my cameras from my main network because then I cannot access the camera stream *rollseyes*..

3:17 ummm. This is not "percentage of the cpu on your devices"; this is for the controller UPDATE: actually sorry, it looks from the MAC address that this would be for your router instead

anyway you can help configure my home network please ? similar equipment, obviously i know your time inst free. id be happy to pay for services

A firewall setting is a 'mega nerd'. OK. Honestly the TPLink Omada seems stupid, basically just pay a few hundred bucks for a GUI with useless info. I guess the Mega Nerd in me was looking for special stuff like auto IP blocking or creating firewall rules to block IP's when under attack etc.