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Review on πŸ“Ά TP-Link EAP235-Wall: Powerful In-Wall Wireless Gigabit Access Point with MU-MIMO & Beamforming by Ronny Welch

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SSIDs with VLANs enabled do not work at the same time as assigning a VLAN to 3 Ethernet ports

There is currently a known issue with using VLANs. SSIDs with VLANs enabled will not work at the same time as assigning VLANs to 3 Ethernet ports. I had this issue during the initial setup where the wireless clients weren't assigned IP addresses and the wired clients weren't visible in the Omada controller. It took me a few days to figure this out after a thorough search of the TP-Link support forums. As far as I can tell this issue should be fixed in the next firmware update but it has been known for over 2 months and there is still no official update. Now that I know the issue, I've temporarily disabled VLANs on the Ethernet ports and the WiFi is working fine. For the regular user this may not be a problem at all, but VLAN support on 3 ethernet ports was my main selling point. As this product is a v1 model and has been available since at least August 2020 I would strongly consider returning it, especially if a new hardware version is released. Until this is fixed I think I would be better off using the eap225 without a wall in my situation.

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