Ubiquity compatibility
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We have a TP-Link Omada mesh set up with CPE 510 and EAP-225 Outdoor units in a marina. A new marina tenant said that in the last place he stayed everyone bought Ubiquity
APs and they just increased their mesh network and life was good. He wants to use his Ubiquity AP the same way here.
As far as I can determine, TP-Link and Ubiquity APs are not compatible. Anyoine know differently?
I am hesitant to tell him to go buy a TP-LInk AP and just join the network, but I guess he could. I think that would show up as a rogue AP. HIs problem is he has a steel boat and can't get wireless inside so that is why he wants to use his own AP. I think he should just get an external wireless antenna and he'd be good. His boat is located about 20 feet from an existing AP and might cause unwanted interference. Of course, if he does install an AP I would be able to manage it and control the mesh connection. Any thoughts on that?
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Fae wrote
Hi R1D2, I'm afraid that there's only a slight chance of a WBS which offers AC mode, unfortunately.
So does this mean that the Pharos product line is approaching End-Of-Life?
That would be a pitty IMO, since we then would have to go back to Ubiquiti's AirOS for Wireless Broadband products used for directional links.
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So does this mean that the Pharos product line is approaching End-Of-Life?
That would be a pitty IMO, since we then would have to go back to Ubiquiti's AirOS for Wireless Broadband products used for directional links.
Sorry for the confusion. I didn't mean that the Pharos product line is EOL, the Pharos CPE series is still in production you know (we can tell from the new CPE710), but just the WBS series is not likely to release one with AC mode as we haven't received such news.
When the official website of one region shows the product is End Of Life, we can tell that this specific model is discontinued in that region. Sometimes, you might still be able to find the model in the markets, if it is newly discontinued.
What's more, I believe there will always be a new product line coming out to replace the approaching EOL product line. So we may not worry about whether it's discontinued or not.
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Fae, thanks for the reply.
Fae wrote
What's more, I believe there will always be a new product line coming out to replace the approaching EOL product line. So we may not worry about whether it's discontinued or not.
Yes, but firmware support then stops abruptly and this is a real issue for us.
In my opinion long-term firmware support is a much more important issue for SMB customers than considering to add a client mode to EAPs.
At least we found out that CPE510 v1 can indeed run Pharos firmware v2.2.0, while the official firmware version on Germany's TP-Link support site is a pretty old version v2.1.6 dated from 2017-09-08.
As for EAPs, we still have early versions of EAP110/EAP110-Outdoor/EAP120 and EAP225 in the field and on stock, so for the EAPs we have to provide an EAP controller v2.7 for our customers until today.
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