Hi,

We have already add mesh in the latest firmware of EAP225v3, and we will add this feature later for EAP245v3. 

For now, we have no plan to ass this feature for EAP320.

So lifetime warranty, but firmware upgrades for only a few months?

Even on the most expensieve AP's eap320/eap330 ...

Strange company policy :-(

Grtz,

E-raser

Indeed, the FW of the EAP320 is not stable (2.4ghz clients disconnects after a while randomly) & TP-link doesn't create updates?!?

I have switched harder twice in 1.5 years, but I do not do it again, lucky is only my home network, my customers will never get tp links with such an update policy. They will be offered Cisco or Unifi.

Now in those days, there have been updates to V3 products, I guess it will be the last update. :-)

I hope I'm wrong.

/shberge

Yeah, I would really appreciate if they would keep doing updates for the 'lifetime' supported products, like the v1/v2 EAP-225's, especially as it wasn't too long ago they were still selling them in parallel to the v3's!

It's bad enough if they stop updates for home-usage commodity APs, but to do this for SMB products may work on the short term, but in the long run equates to corporate suicide...

@E-raser 

I am pretty sure, TP-Link will create you a beta-firmware with a fix, if you complan on that problem and help them to troubleshoot it. I received betas with fixes for long-time EOL products several times, which didn't become official firmware.

@shberge 

Cisco for 1k$ per AP?

Maybe you can also show me MESH on TP-Link EAP225 competitive model of unifi AP AC LR? :) I will answer for you, there is no MESH. Only in AC Mesh AP, which has much higher cost.

@R1D2 

All online trainings, which I had from TP-Link, when they are speaking about 'limited lifetime warranty', they are talking only about service-centers (hardware repairement), not about firmware support. 

If TP-Link supports something, it is for free (no any additional licences, as Cisco, Ruckus, etc..), no any licences. If you have a problem/bug and you troubleshoot it with tplink, you will receive beta even for eol product pretty fast(I received it many times, even for TPNMS, which is eoled for years).

The problem you mention is about model naming, probably, as they just continue with eap225v3, but not EAP MESH and just eol EAP225, but I do not see any difference.

Ubiquiti also has different hardware versions for their product, which they stop to develop. I do not know the ideal vendor, who supports EOL products for free. I feel tplink is pretty good with it.