Hi,

I own EAP225 and really like it but unfortunately as many other people, experience weird speed issues on this Access Point. I'm frustrated quite a bit with it and strongly considering just buying another known brand of Access Point but decided to give this a last go to fix it before I throw any money at the problem so to speak. Yes, I experience the speed issues like others but this one is a bit different as I get a full speed on two devices but others have terrible speeds or just completely refuse to connect for some reason, no matter of the location in the house which have plasterboard walls so there's definitely no issues with signal range. My old router that I bought in the same price range of EAP225 provided full Wi-Fi speeds all around my house. My broadband is 68 Mbps download and around 18/20 Mbps upload. The Access Point gets 1GB LAN Link (1000Mbps - FD) when I check the web interface as I run this Access Point in the standalone mode.

Here's more information about my devices:

Room 1:

Laptop from around 2010 or so (Full Wi-Fi Speeds)
Laptop older than 2010 (Terrible Speeds)

Room 2:

Xbox Series S (Can't connect at all)
Laptop bought from around 2 years ago (Terrible Speeds)
Work laptop (Full Wi-Fi Speeds)

When I say terrible speeds, I mean there are times where I'm getting pretty often under 1Mbps download but the upload is always the highest and matches what my ISP provides. If I'm lucky, the download usually ranges between 5Mbps to 10 or 15Mbps which then at some point just randomly tanks to under 1Mbps. Even if one of my devices gets consistent 10 to 15Mbps download speeds, YouTube will occasionally and out of sudden skip frames resulting in videos for example jumping from 1:50 to 1:58 and so on.

I browsed multiple forums online for days and still can't find any solution to my issue, I have already tried the following:

• Checking if WMM is enabled (it is)
• Factory Resetting the Access Point
• Updating to the latest firmware
• Setting Wi-Fi settings to channels 1,6,11 as they don't overlap as well as other ones
• Setting 2.4Ghz Wi-Fi to only 20Hz Channel Width
• Changing TX Power\Wi-Fi Range to maximum (20)
• Checking my RJ45 cables as well as POE Injector that was included with the Access Point
• Wi-Fi is set to 802.11 b\g\n mixed with Auto Channel and Auto width as when I play around with channels or width, I get worse performance so I left it at that.

I might add that there are no Wi-Fi interference issues as clearly some devices are getting full speed but some don't, additionally, the same devices that are connected to EAP225 had a full Wi-Fi speed on my router that I mentioned earlier, the only problematic denominator I see here is the Access Point itself. The Access Point is also placed at the same place where the said router was placed, I moved the Access Point around as well as mounted it at the ceiling but it didn't do anything. To add more to the context, I'm only using 2.4 Ghz as I don't need 5 Ghz.

It's pretty frustrating to see this happen especially when I paid for Access Point itself what my whole router cost and get worse performance. Could it be that the used SOC chip is not powerful enough for this Access Point ? That was one of the comments (Link - Look for a comment from arinc9 for more information on the SOC Chip) that I came about online and could possibly explain all the Wi-Fi speed issues that many people have. Tho, TP-Link keeps ignoring the issue as it would require a recall of the hardware.

I'm just exhausted as no matter what I do, nothing works, I don't have time and energy for all of this, therefore, this is my last attempt to get this sorted out before I move on to another brand.

Any other ideas or what I can do here ?