Review on 📶 EnGenius EWS377AP WiFi 6 AX3600 4x4 Multi-Gigabit Access Point, 2.5Gbps Port, OFDMA, MU-MIMO, PoE+, WPA3, 1GB RAM, License-Free Management Tools (Power Adapter Not Included) by Dennis Brinson

Be careful when buying: This is a business-class access point. It doesn't perform any routing or filtering or what people would expect from a router and consumer-grade Wi-Fi combo. I see some other reviews expecting this device to be an advanced router. However, I'm a network engineer and I knew what I wanted (I have dedicated routers, switches, etc.) so this was ideal. Don't use an injector - it needs the full 30W PoE+, not just 14W PoE (no plus). It loaded correctly. The instructions that came with it say it has a static IP address of 192.168.1.1 by default, but I found that it pulled the DHCP address from the network I connected it to. Connected directly to the admin page, changed the password and updated the firmware. I configured my wireless SSIDs and used VLAN tagging to put them in the same VLAN (supports splitting different SSIDs into different VLANs with different authentication and credentials) and moved control of the interface to a different VLAN. The management VLAN configuration is weirdly at the bottom of the "Wireless" network configuration page and not on the "Base" network configuration page, which is a strange place since "Base" covers the rest of the management configuration (if EnGenius ever reads this - I would suggest moving this entry). RADIUS authentication is suggested (although I haven't tested it yet). The manufacturer's website says WPA3 is offered, but it's not offered in firmware v3.6.7_c1.9.30, which is annoying. Note that SNMPv2 is enabled by default with community public/private strings, which I consider insecure by default. . I modified them to add them to my surveillance system. When others do the same, the interface named "wifi0" is their 2.4GHz radio and "wifi1" is their 5GHz radio. While you can configure multiple SSIDs per radio, statistics for them don't seem to be offered as separate entries in the ifTable for SNMP queries - a bit of a disappointment. The web interface is very basic but quite functional for customization purposes. By default, there is no forced HTTP to HTTPS redirect, but this option is available. Overall the installation took about 20 minutes, the first few minutes of which involved looking up the IP address the device had obtained from DHCP and all that was required was a simple web browser. One of the things I like about the setup is that it bundles configuration changes together so you can commit them as a batch instead of immediately trying to commit everything as soon as the change is made (which other access points do and it's very annoying ). Performance tests are looking good - in a crowded RF environment and using older 802.11ac adapters, over 300MB was received at about 15 feet from the device (still in line of sight). Overall rating 4 stars - I'm subtracting a star for the default insecure SNMP and HTTP redirection settings, the management VLAN is in a bad place and doesn't support WPA3 (hopefully not) which the website says doesn't support 160MHz in the 5th month -GHz band (due to the Wi-Fi chipset on board)