EAP245: Differences between standalone devices and 5-units pack devices
Hello,
Lately I bought a couple 5-units EAP245 packs and some standalone EAP245 units.
1. While I expected a PoE injector to be missing in the 5-units pack, I was very surprised to observe unadvertised differences between the two types of AP:
- standalone units have hardware version 4 and support 1.2.1 firmware
- pack units have hardware version 5 and support 5.0.7 firmware
Is it expected ?
2. Looking at a 5-units pack device through a 5.12.9 controller, how can I enable ETH2 PoE ? With standalone units, you can use Config/Advanced panel to enable ETH2 PoE but this entry is missing for 5-units pack devices.
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Hello @Oliv2831,
Oliv2831 wrote
1. While I expected a PoE injector to be missing in the 5-units pack, I was very surprised to observe unadvertised differences between the two types of AP:- standalone units have hardware version 4 and support 1.2.1 firmware
- pack units have hardware version 5 and support 5.0.7 firmware
Is it expected ?
Please check the Specifications of 5-units pack, there is no POE injector contains in the package.
As for the difference of the hardware and firmware version, it depends on local sales strategies and local retailers.
Oliv2831 wrote
2. Looking at a 5-units pack device through a 5.12.9 controller, how can I enable ETH2 PoE ? With standalone units, you can use Config/Advanced panel to enable ETH2 PoE but this entry is missing for 5-units pack devices.
On the controller, click on the radio in the device list within the Omada controller, go to Config > Advance > and its below.
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Hello @Oliv2831,
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1. While I expected a PoE injector to be missing in the 5-units pack, I was very surprised to observe unadvertised differences between the two types of AP:- standalone units have hardware version 4 and support 1.2.1 firmware
- pack units have hardware version 5 and support 5.0.7 firmware
Is it expected ?
Please check the Specifications of 5-units pack, there is no POE injector contains in the package.
As for the difference of the hardware and firmware version, it depends on local sales strategies and local retailers.
Oliv2831 wrote
2. Looking at a 5-units pack device through a 5.12.9 controller, how can I enable ETH2 PoE ? With standalone units, you can use Config/Advanced panel to enable ETH2 PoE but this entry is missing for 5-units pack devices.
On the controller, click on the radio in the device list within the Omada controller, go to Config > Advance > and its below.
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Thanks for this detailed and valuable reply.
One thing I noticed after further digging into this issue, is that on EAPv3 hardware, second Eth port is simply labeled "ETH2" while it is labeled "ETH2 (PoE OUT)" on v4 hardware.
So it seems these hardware have different capabilities.
I can stress these differences were unadvertised.
I'll ask my distributor to advertise it.
I would strongly encourage practise to use a different product name when an hardware capability (PoE output on second Ethernet port) changes.
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Hi @Oliv2831,
Thank you for your valuable feedback.
I've recorded this request and will report it to the developer team for evaluation.
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