TP Link EAP "QOS" implementation flawed - WMM
As reported a number of times here and there in the forum, some of us are experiencing very bad wireless throughput on EAP225, EAP245. In my particular case, I solved it by checking the "Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM)" box.
At first I could not believe this was the real solution to my problem, becasue why would it? What would not enabling "prioritizing WiFi Multimedia traffic" have to do with very poor overall wifi throughput?
After Googling this for a bit it turns out that yes, in fact this is exactly what was causing trouble: Apparently, disabling WMM causes the maximum tx rate to reduce to 54mbps.
I believe this is a severely under-documented "feature". This toggle is presented under the QOS header which is entirely inappropriate. Moreover, the way it s described it reads as some kind of multi media QOS function but in reality, it is a "legacy wifi protocol toggle" which, if not selected, reduces the wifi troughput to almost nothing in modern terms. This is not clear at all from the way it is described and presented.
Could this please be better defined / described in future firmwares, and be moved away from under the QOS header in the configuration tab? I believe this would save a lot of people a lot of headache and frustration :-)