Hello Team, 

 

I am trying to design my home network around the business equipment from the Omada line, as it's generally reasonable cost, and provides some interesting features. 

 

Basically, I have an ER605 VPN router, that doesn't work quite well with meshing third part access points, so I'd like to purchase 2x EAP653 AX3000, as well as PoE switch TL-SG1005P. 

 

Now, I want to create the following topology. 

 

WAN Side:

 

ONT Gateway (third party) - - > ER605 WAN port (standard 1GPBS connection). This is already set up. 

 

LAN Side:

 

LAN port 1 of ER605 - - > LAN port 1 of TL-SG1005P. 

LAN port 2 of ER605 - - > LAN port 2 of TL-SG1005P. 

LAN port 3 of ER605 - - > My home NAS

LAN port 4 of switch - - > 1st of EAP653 AX3000. 

LAN port 5 of switch - - > 2nd of EAP653 AX3000. 

 

I want to create link aggregation on ports 1&2 of ER605 and TL-SG1005P, so that my LAN side of the network can take advantage of the full 2x EAP653 AX3000 1GBPS speeds and provide PoE to both Access Points through the switch. If I join the PoE switch with the router via a 1GBPS single link, my internal LAN speed will be limited to 2x500MBPS simultaneously on the two access points. Since I have NAS hosted in my home network, and other bandwidth intensive services, the internal speed just won't cut it with a single link. 

 

Alternatively, I can use 2xOC200 PoE controllers for the access points, and link them directly to ER605, through separate ports, however that expands the cost greatly, as the OC200s are interestingly somewhat expensive. 

 

I can also try with a cheap PoE injector solution, but not sure what effect it's gonna have on the network speed. 

 

My question is, can Link Aggregation be set up on the LAN side between the ER605 and the TL-SG1005P, maybe through LACP or some other method? 

 

Thank you, all!