Early Access EAP773 | EAP783 v1.1.1 Pre-release Firmware (Released on 19th Aug, 2025)
This Article Applies to:
EAP783 V1, Fully Adapted to Omada SDN Controller v5.14 or above;
EAP773 V1, Fully Adapted to Omada SDN Controller v5.14 or above;
Release Notes:
New Feature/ Enhancement:
- Supported Portal Logout.
- Supported cluster deployment in Local Controller mode (Omada Central doesn’t support).
- Supported RADIUS Proxy(Global View> Server Settings> Radius Proxy Server).
- Supported OWE.
- Supported upgrading firmware through cloud in standalone mode.
- Supported Rate Limit with Portal Authentication.
- Supported disabling HTTP protocol in Standalone mode.
- Supported DHCP Option43.
- Supported multiple Radius servers when using MAC-Based Authentication (Site View Settings>MAC-Based Authentication).
- Added support for configuring NAS ID with WPA-Enterprise encryption.
- Supported DNS Queries (Network Tools>Network Check>DNSLookup).
- Supported DNS Adoption.
- Supported configuring the Device Name in Controller mode.
- Supported viewing status information and simple configuration through standalone management page when devices managed by the Controller.
- Supported displaying the maximum associated clients range in Controller mode(EAP Config>Advanced>Load Balance).
- Supported displaying the bandwidth of the EAP in Controller mode.
- Added Support for 11 a/n mixed mode for 5GHz radio in Controller mode.
- Supported multicast and broadcast data statistics.
- Supported disabling HTTP, HTTPS and APP discovery in Controller mode (Only with Pro controller).
- Supported Non-stick Roaming function.
- Supported authentication type of EKMS and Generic Radius with Unbound MAC for PPSK with Radius.
- Supports 1024 PPSK entries.
- Supported Multicast Filtering with IPv6 address.
- Supported Multicast/Broadcast Rate Limit
- Supported displaying Configuration Result.
- Optimized roaming function.
- Optimized Automatic Power Optimization function.
- Optimized the configuration of Beacon Interval.
- Optimized Portal Function.
- Optimized MLO connection stability.
- Improved Device and Network security.
- Improved time to configure SSID.
- Improved stability.
Bug Fixed：
- Fixed the issue that RSSI display error in WLAN Optimization.
- Fixed the issue that URL Filtering cannot work properly after TLS1.3 is enabled in the browser.
- Fixed the issue that HTTPS Redirection and Pre-Authentication Access don’t take effect when use portal.
- Fixed the issue that IPv4 multicast packets can’t be transmitted from mesh AP to root AP.
- Fixed the issue that one hop mesh AP’s client on SSID with VLAN would have slow Network speed.
- Fixed the issue that CoA doesn’t take effect with some MLO clients.
Pre-release Firmware Download
Attention
Please be sure you have read the Beta Test Agreement before upgrading the Beta firmware!
EAP773_V1_1.1.1_20250818 (Pre-release)
EAP783_V1_1.1.1_20250818 (Pre-release)
Notes:
(1) The above firmware is applied to EAP773&EAP783 V1.
(2) Your device’s configuration won’t be lost after upgrading.
(3) The above firmware is fully adapted to Omada SDN Controller v5.14 and above
Update Log
19th Aug, 2025
Provide the following pre-release link:
EAP773_V1_1.1.1_20250818 (Pre-release)
EAP783_V1_1.1.1_20250818 (Pre-release)
19th Aug, 2025
Update the release note.
Feedback
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- Device Model(s) and Hardware
- Device Firmware (previous and current)
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Hi @DarthRay
Thanks for the feedback.
For security reasons, shell access is no longer supported on EAP devices.
EAP V1.0 is same as V1.6. The numbers 0 and 6 are simply used to identify production locations. In reality, they are identical in every way, so there's no need to worry about this distinction
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Thank you, @Vincent-TP. I installed the pre-release version and will test it out over the next day or so. In the meantime, a couple of things I noticed:
1. Don't see the immediate crash when connecting from an iPhone 16 Pro to an MLO-enabled SSID. Will continue to monitor
2. Connection via SSH now drops onto an EAP app with a "EAP>" prompt instead of a shell. I was planning to get information about connected stations via SSH. Will there be a way to get to the shell once this firmware is released?
3. Once in the EAP app, there's no way to exit from it. Neither "quit" not "exit" disconnects from it, and there isn't a "logout" command either.\
4. The main status page still says my hardware version is 1.0 after the upgrade.
Thanks!
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Reply:
- The behavior when the iPhone 17 Pro fails to connect is an error message saying:“Unable to join the network ‘M**_A’.”*
- This issue only occurs with the iPhone 17 Pro.
- For reference, the iPhone 16 (also MLO-capable) can connect, but it seems to connect only via 6 GHz, not using MLO.
- Unfortunately, I do not have another Wi-Fi 7 network available for comparison testing.
May I ask, does your company (TP-Link) have an iPhone 17 series device for verification?
I believe this issue can likely be reproduced with a high probability if tested on your side.
Attached below is the screenshot of the MLO SSID settings.
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Hi @JIN_JPN
Thanks for the info.
May I ask, does your company (TP-Link) have an iPhone 17 series device for verification?
>>We are working on it.
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@Vincent-TP Good afternoon,
Upon updating my EAP783 from V1_1.1.92 to V1.1.1 and updating my controller from the latest v5.x to v6.0.0.23 I am having MLO issues with various Apple devices ranging from older Apple TVs and iPad Pros to iPhone 16 Pros and 17 Pros.
Issue 1: After a period of time, iPhone 16 Pro (iOS 26) loses all Wifi connectivity to LAN and WAN until I toggle Wifi on and off a few times.
Issue 2: iPhone 17 Pro is unable to join MLO SSID at all.
Issue 3: When 5Ghz channel width is set to 80Mhz, iPhone 16 Pro and 17 Pro are unable to join my 5Ghz-only SSID. The same devices will connect to 5ghz when using a MLO SSID.
Please let me know if I any specific logs would be of troubleshooting use. Thanks!
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Thanks for the feedback. Pleas help us confirm the following info:
Issue 1: After a period of time, iPhone 16 Pro (iOS 26) loses all Wifi connectivity to LAN and WAN until I toggle Wifi on and off a few times.
>>>After toggle Wifi on and off a few times, will the issue reoccur? If yes, around how long?
Does this only happens on the iphone 16 pro? What about other IOS clients?
Will this happens on all kinds of wifi settings?
Issue 2: iPhone 17 Pro is unable to join MLO SSID at all.
>>>Did the situation similar, or same as what others mentioned?
Issue 3: When 5Ghz channel width is set to 80Mhz, iPhone 16 Pro and 17 Pro are unable to join my 5Ghz-only SSID. The same devices will connect to 5ghz when using a MLO SSID.
Please confirm the following situation:
>>>channel width is not 80Mhz, everything is working correctly
>>>channel width is 80Mhz, enable MLO, work
What about other situations?
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@Vincent-TP Thank you for the quick reply! Please see my replies below and let me know how to proceed. :)
Issue 1: After a period of time, iPhone 16 Pro (iOS 26) loses all Wifi connectivity to LAN and WAN until I toggle Wifi on and off a few times.
>>>After toggle Wifi on and off a few times, will the issue reoccur? If yes, around how long?
Does this only happens on the iphone 16 pro? What about other IOS clients?
Will this happens on all kinds of wifi settings?
Re Issue 1: Yes. Issue reoccurs within 5 minutes to maybe 1 hour? Other iOS clients including older but all MLO capable apple TV, older iPad pro, and iPhone 13 Pro. A M3 max macbook pro has the same issue. Devices lose all connectivity only on MLO as far as I am getting reports of. 2.4, 5, and 6ghz SSIDs seem to work.
Issue 2: iPhone 17 Pro is unable to join MLO SSID at all.
>>>Did the situation similar, or same as what others mentioned?
Re Issue 2: Yes I think so.
Issue 3: When 5Ghz channel width is set to 80Mhz, iPhone 16 Pro and 17 Pro are unable to join my 5Ghz-only SSID. The same devices will connect to 5ghz when using a MLO SSID.
Please confirm the following situation:
>>>channel width is not 80Mhz, everything is working correctly
>>>channel width is 80Mhz, enable MLO, work
What about other situations?
Re Issue 3: I have only tested channel width of 80Mhz with the above issues and 40Mhz without issue.
New Issue 4: Various Intel BE200 equipped windows 11 laptops and desktops also lost the ability to access MLO. They can still access 2.4, 5, and 6Ghz SSIDs.
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I hope I am not wrong, but my iphone 17 pro connects to my test MLO network without issues. Anything I could share as settings to compare with non working setup?
Since iphone 17 series does not support 320 Mhz channels, I've set EAP783 6Ghz to 160Mhz.
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This is really reaching a sad state... No EAP783 stable firmware for over year. A beta every few months, and all have annoying issues... 6ghz connection dropout issues, MLO issues, Apple compatibility issues, these threads never get a conclusion and the issues never really get resolved. If they wer resolved we would have a new stable firmware. Squash one bug and two more pop up. I've now reverted from a beta back to the 1 year-old stable firmware for the 3rd time. Note, that "stable" is far from stable -- MLO issues, crashes AP with 2.4Ghz enabled, etc (take a look at the beta release notes to see all of the things fixed since last "stable")...
I just use two EAP783's for my home and it's been a dissapointment, always waiting for a firmware to resolve this stuff. Hoping it "just works" some day. It hurts me to think of the pain for any of you who actually use these Omada/EAP devices for a real business or enterprise.
Vincent, be real with us... Is this firmware ever going to be ready for primetime? Is a new stable release coming anytime soon? Or was the HW just not ready, can't be fixed, and we are screwed. If we are, just tell us and let us move to another brand.
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What issues are you seeing?
The iPhone 17 N1 chip had a known WiFi issue and is fixed in today's iOS patch. I'm able to connect and MLO works (5GHz + 6GHz). I haven't had any stability issues on the 1.1.1 firmware.
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