Ok now that I am looking into this more I feel like there may be a better solution out there by using the N300 5GHz. One mounted on the house roof pointed towards the garage (100 Ft away) then another mounted on the roof of the garage. An ethernet cable through the roof to a an AP in the garage. Oh so confused now. Would I need the OC200 and EAP225 anymore? Any help is appreciated!

@Teks


As far as know, any EAP access point that is connected via Ethernet is a "root AP" possibility.

The ones that I set up as mesh I set up first as regular wired AP's, made sure the channel select was set to "auto" (the hard wired ones are manually set so they stay put).  Then I unplugged Ethernet from the one intended to be "mesh" and it wound up being found within a couple of minutes.  It automatically connects to the strongest AP that is still plugged into Ethernet.

Make sure the "mesh" option is turned on. It is on by default btw.

@Fae the one thing left out of the guide, which I believe is important, is to set the mesh only clients to auto channel select. It is best to have the wired client channels manually configured. Otherwise, it could turn in to a giant game of a cat chasing his tail.

This Saturday I went out to my greenhouse with an EAP225 and a POE injector. I have 3 hard wired EAP225's already installed at mu house, and the mesh option in the controller is turned on.

The greenhouse EAP225 I had just done a factory reset on. I plugged it into the POE injector and the OC200 AP on my cell phone told me within a minute or so that there was an Access Point looking to be adopted. I told it to adopt the access point, and about a minute later it was up and running with no more effort on my part.

While the TP-Link web site actually mentions using aftermarket antennas (shows pictures of what are probably Alfa 15 dB omni's, there it no detailed information anywhere that I can find.

Most high gain antennas are single band.   My plan right now is to use a could of duplexers, one on each antenna connection, to split the signal of each antenna connection to it's own 15 dBi Omni, one for 2.5 and one for 5 Ghz.  The antenna pairs will be abot a foot apart to offer some degree of diversity reception.

However, this is a sort of an extremely elegant solution.

There are two antenna ports.  There are other options... for instance, can one connect a 2.5 Ghz antenna to one port and a 5 Ghz antenna to the other and avoid the use of 2 pairs of antennas and a pair of $90 each Duplexers?    I would love some details on what's actually going on inside the radio with respect to the dual antenna connectors.