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Early Access EAP683 | EAP653 | EAP650 Pre-release Adapted to Omada Controller v6.1 (Released on 21th Jul, 2025)

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Re:EAP683 | EAP653 | EAP650 Pre-release Adapted to Omada Controller v6.1 (Released on 21th Jul, 2025)
a week ago

  @Vincent-TP That's not entirely true. It's still lacking channel 144 support in spite of TP-Link advertising in the official datasheet of the EAP603-Outdoor v1 and v1.6 that it does. For the rest of the DFS channels, it does support it. Might want to clarify and update what the device actually supports. Channel 144 added support would be very helpful, if possible. Seems weird to not support it, beings the FCC has allowed its use indoors and outdoor for the past 12 years.

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Re:EAP683 | EAP653 | EAP650 Pre-release Adapted to Omada Controller v6.1 (Released on 21th Jul, 2025)
a week ago
EAP603-Outdoor is receiving poor download performance when compared to upload on a connected client device running various speed tests. This issue was present on the initial release firmware, which is still the only official release available with no new updates, and is also present on this pre-release. The client device's upload (UE Tx to AP Rx) is maxing out the gigabit Ethernet connection at 942Mbps at close range but the download (AP Tx to UE Rx) is behaving unstably. Omada's UI of the connected client device indicates there may be an issue with one of the EAP603-Outdoor's Tx chains based on weird, anomalous data rates on the client device's downlink. This issue is present on multiple units. Not just one. Tried factory resetting without success. Tried both initial official release and pre-release firmwqre versions with no success. Tried ensuring there was no interference. There was none. Channel width is set to 80MHz. Antennas are screwed on nice and tight. Different Ethernet cables were tested to no avail. This is definitively a problem with the access point.
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Re:EAP683 | EAP653 | EAP650 Pre-release Adapted to Omada Controller v6.1 (Released on 21th Jul, 2025)
Wednesday

  @JoePalmer 

 

Hi, thanks for the feedback.

I don't think we had advertised the support of channel 144. Could you please share a screenshot of the link to the advertisement?

JoePalmer wrote

  @Vincent-TP That's not entirely true. It's still lacking channel 144 support in spite of TP-Link advertising in the official datasheet of the EAP603-Outdoor v1 and v1.6 that it does. For the rest of the DFS channels, it does support it. Might want to clarify and update what the device actually supports. Channel 144 added support would be very helpful, if possible. Seems weird to not support it, beings the FCC has allowed its use indoors and outdoor for the past 12 years.

 

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Re:EAP683 | EAP653 | EAP650 Pre-release Adapted to Omada Controller v6.1 (Released on 21th Jul, 2025)
Wednesday

Hi  @JoePalmer 

 

Thanks for the feedback.

This is not a common issue with this hardware. 

For further troubleshooting, we recommend submitting a support ticket via email for efficient assistance.
Please include the following information in the email:
1. This Forum ID 833362;
2. your community nickname;
3. The type of controller you are using;
4. The config file of the controller.

5. The mentioned truobleshooting results, better with screenshots of the speedtest results.

Wish you a happy life and smooth network usage!  >Omada US Enterprise Beta Program Launch< >Get the Latest Omada SDN Controller Releases Here< >Experience the Latest Omada EAP Firmware<
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Re:EAP683 | EAP653 | EAP650 Pre-release Adapted to Omada Controller v6.1 (Released on 21th Jul, 2025)
18 hours ago - last edited 18 hours ago

  @Vincent-TP Yes. I've attached a screenshot from the datasheet of the EAP603-Outdoor that shows it's supported frequency bands. As can be noted both in the link below directly to the datasheet and the screenshot of it, it clearly states it supports the entirety of UNII-2c up to 5725MHz, which is channel 144. I believe the start of UNII-3 is actually 5745MHz, so there is a typo there as well in the datasheet. If the EAP603-Outdoor and any other Wi-Fi 6/6E EAP model do not support channel 144 due to unwillingness to support via firmware update to these devices advertising channel 144 support, then all of these models' datasheets need to be updated to accurately reflect that. But, again, I come back to the fact that channel 144 for Wi-Fi use in the USA has been allowed by the FCC for over a decade now, many other Wi-Fi 6 router and access point manufacturers support channel 144 just fine yet Omada does not, and there's little reason to be locking Omada customers out of being able to make use of it just because they aren't buying Wi-Fi 7 gear right now, which all Omada Wi-Fi 7 gear actually does expose channel 144 for use in the Omada UI, oddly enough.

 

https://support.omadanetworks.com/us/document/35233/

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