@Riley_S 

I have a question regarding EasyMesh and OneMesh.

I have multiple TP-Link products - both are on the list to get EasyMesh.   Do I need to wait for both to receive EasyMesh FW updates to mesh them, or can one device on OneMesh  mesh with a device with EasyMesh?

Never mind -   I see that my question is covered under Q2 above.    They are not compatible - so I need to wait until both of my routers are EasyMesh compatible to mesh them.

I stumbled upon EasyMesh in my RX700E range extender yesterday and it appears to be working with my AX50 router. I now have just one SSID.

I'm still confused about EasyMesh vs OneMesh. EasyMesh appears to be an industry standard, while OneMesh is proprietary. That's fine, but which one offers higher performance, or is there a difference in performance?

@Jaddie 

Good question - I've had the same questions myself.   Hoping @Riley_S will offer up the official TP-Link answer.

My thoughts on the matter - based solely on absolutely nothing but my thoughts.

As you noted - EasyMesh was designed off the industry standard while OneMesh is TP-Link's own developed methodology - and I would think that something proprietary would be faster/more efficient.  

@TC_In_Montana @Jaddie;

The introduction of EasyMesh is still very new; so we do no have too too much information comparing the two. Speaking with our testing and product teams, the performance of the two should be relatively similar, however the onemesh connections will most likely be more stable as they are tested to work between our own products, rather than relying on another company's implementation of Easymesh.

The main differences come into play when looking at the devices that may be added. Onemesh will allow you to add a variety of TP-Link devices that may not support Easymesh, while Easymesh allows for mesh networks to be built with non-Tp-Link products. Currently, Easymesh is not widely implemented or used, so if you are only planning to use TP-Link products you may want to stick with a OneMesh connection until Easymesh is more widely available.

As Easymesh is rolled out to more products, our team will attempt to provide an update on the differences and qualities of the connections.

@Riley_S 

Thanks for the update/information.

I've got a couple of devices on the "planned" list - waiting for EasyMesh to roll out to them so I can it out.

Patience has never been one of my best features.....

Thanks for the Awesome information!

I started with one AX55 but over time and with more WiFi in use locally I had problems with a 2.4 camera being too far from the router for a reliable connection. The laptops and smartphones were fine.

So I added a second AX55 running easymesh which solved the camera problem and it's fine most of the time except one particular smartphone which drops the connection then picks it up again when it is midway between the two routers which just happens to be where one of my favourite chairs is located.

Being lazy I added another TP-link router this time a AXE5400 since it is a real soon now Easymesh router.  My thoughts were simply to run it as another access point so I could steer the smartphone to fix on one router.

Unfortunately when I signed in the the new router it picked up all the information from the existing two routers.  OK but that means I can't add another named access point dedicated to one smartphone.

Is there a way to tell the routers that this smartphone should only connect to one of the routers? 

Is there a way to use the AXE5400 without involving the existing TPlink user and password?

Or do I get the impression the thing to do is wait for the firmware upgrade to the AXE5400 to make it easymesh?

Or does onemesh support having the axe5400 as the main router and an AX55 as the satellite today?

Another possibility might be to have the satellite router not broadcast on the 5 GHZ band?  Is this possible?

The last one might be to try the AXE5400 by itself and see if the camera connection is steady enough. 

Thoughts?

Thanks John

Hey @johnwhelan,

I would recommend creating a new thread on the forums for your situation, that way we can keep the conversation focused. However:

When a Device is set up as an AP, you can always change the wireless settings of that specific AP by logging into the settings for the AP. It will just automatically match your other network name so that your devices can begin to roam between nodes.

You can either set a new SSID, or configure the access control so that the device cannot connect to the AP, but for the life of me I cant remember if this could cause problems with the phone connecting to the main router. There will also be options available to choose which bands of your network to broadcast, since you mention that would help for now.

Onemesh Does Not Currently Support Router-Router Connections and is Focused on the Connection between Powerline, REs, and a single router to manage the mesh.

While this is not the same router as yours, it is an Archer Router in AP Mode:

The camera is an early eufy one that has something called a homebase.  I suspect the camera does not use conventional Wi-Fi but talks directly to the homebase which talks to everything else.

So I dropped in the AXE 5400 in place of the other routers and ran a 25 foot cat 6 cable to the homebase which is close to the camera. The router is located in the basement so I raised the AXE 5400 by eighteen inches and turned off 6 GHZ.

Crossed fingers that seems to be working nicely the extra power of over the AX55 and the extra height I think gives it just enough reach.  With only one AP the phone isn't dropping the connection and reestablishing it every minute or so.

As a comment switching from  AP to the other probably needs a wider gap in the signal strength before switching, which would save the phone problem.  Connecting to a particular router (the AXE 5400) might have been possible by changing its IP address first then connecting once it was plugged into the network.

I think just writing it all out then sleeping on it made it come together and you never know easymesh might come to the AXE 5400 real soon now and ethernet backhaul the day after.

Many Thanks

Cheerio John

When is the development of this going to be done? I've been waiting for both of my Archer AX11000 to get OneMesh firmware updates for over a year now and things are still marked in the "planned" state. EasyMesh seems to have a "planned" update for these Archer as well, but there's been no sign or hope that the either of these updates are coming soon. This seems so far behind compared to Asus AI Mesh