No luck. The RE300 sees my Archer C7 but doesn't show it as Onemesh.

You mentioned the C7 configuration for Onemesh under "advanced-wireless-onemesh". I don't see "advanced" anywhere. Maybe I am missing an initial setting or something to enable advanced mode? Attached is a screenshot of my webui, notice model and firmware version at the bottom.

Are you kidding? Is this SERIOUS limitation going to be remedied at some point? Prior to my purchase I had read that Onemesh would be available in AP mode, though I currently am unable to link to that statement as there seems to be a lot of pages on this site that have been moved/removed.

As I mentioned, I am unable to find it on this site anymore, along with a lot of other posts that seems to have disappeared. I did manage to find a review from a few months back that supports the claim, though I understand it is far from as reliable resource as something from TP LInk directly: https://dongknows.com/tp-link-onemesh-wi-fi-system-review/. Specifically, see screenshot: 

@Kevin_Z 

Hi,

  I have 5 RE220 set as repeater, connected to a RE220 set as access point. I have purchased an Archer C7 change the RE220 and use the "one mesh" advertised feature. Guess what I have discovered after having reconfigured everything? That while listed as "one mesh" it is not "one mesh capable" in access point mode 

   Please update your description here:

https://www.tp-link.com/it/onemesh/compatibility/

and here

https://www.tp-link.com/it/home-networking/wifi-router/archer-c7/

I have 400EUR of TPLink devices I cannot use as planned in my company.

Would you please tell me which is the first device, in order of lowest cost,  that I can use as One Mesh Access Point ? Otherwise, I will have to return everything to Amazon.

Thanks in advance

Regards,

   Giuseppe Chillemi

@Kevin_Z 

Hey, 

I have seen several complains regarding OneMesh not available in Access Point mode of a router. 

Meanwhile I've also seen a few times reviewer mentioning this capability 

eg: https://dongknows.com/tp-link-onemesh-wi-fi-system-review/

"Access point mode: An OneMesh system can work in Access Point mode, meaning you can use it with an existing router or gateway as part of a single network. In this mode, other than the seamless hand-off, you’ll get no other features of the OneMesh system."

The thing is it is not clear for customers. (In fact I also have an Archer C6 and a RE200 extender which I can't use in mesh because the router works in AP mode.)

Originally I wanted to ask how one could know whether a router can do OneMesh in Access Point mode.

But I've found a FAQ in this topic (https://www.tp-link.com/us/support/faq/2690/) which seems to clear that almost all the benefits customers desired are only available to deco products leaving other routers and extenders rather in OneMess.

Could you please help me and other customers understand whether this is a deliberate market segmentation meaning that OneMesh will never have those funcionalites (eg: using two routers in OneMesh, or OneMesh available in Access Point mode of routers, etc) or will future OneMesh products catch up with deco mesh capabilities in time?