Vincent-TP wrote

Hi  @Subtech 

 

Thanks for posting here.

 

Yes, unlike Omada, the Festa wireless gateway cannot form a mesh with APs. We recommend adding a new indoor Festa AP to create the mesh network.  

Below is a  product link for your reference:

https://www.tp-link.com/en/business-networking/soho-festa-access-point/

 

  @Vincent-TP Thanks for that information. Might I suggest an edit to the spec sheet for the FR365 then as it clearly states it will Mesh(with EAP that supports Mesh). Do you know will that functionality will be rolled out in future firmware updates?

Vincent-TP wrote

Hi  @Subtech 

 

Thanks for the feedback.

The FR365 is classified as a gateway router (with wireless functionality) rather than a wireless access point(EAP), so this statement is not inaccurate.

Unfortunatelty, we don't have a plan to provide firmware update to add this feature.

 Hello  @Vincent-TP 

I just wanted to post what I found, for you and anyone who may read this post, after getting my mesh set up. After you telling me the gateway couldn't mesh with an EAP, I followed your recommendation and purchased an indoor F65. You were correct, after connecting the F65 hardwired the F65-outdoor became available to adopt wireless to the F65. All of this worked flawlessly. What i found was after establishing all my connections and running a scan in the uplink(Wireless) tab of the mesh connected EAP, it showed the gateway as an available option to mesh. I clicked link on the gateway and sure enough my f65-outdoor was happy to connect to it now. I unplugged the indoor F65  and still have data connection at my F65-outdoor. So in short, it seams to me the gateway can establish mesh connections with mesh capable EAPs. It apparently just can't create the first mesh connection. This seems like a bug to me. 

Thanks,

Subtech