Omada EAP673, WiFi 6 AX5400 Dual Band Wireless Access Point

Have been using this AP for a while now and its been great. Wifi couple houses down on the neighbors deck too. Honestly the wofe can't say we dont gave good wifi anymore going from a mesh router off the shelf all in one to a TPLink Omada stack was one of the best home networking decisions of my life. Second best decision was a mini server rack.

I bought two to replace two plume pods. Installed one and have better coverage than ever. Will install the other one in the basement but I could get away with using just one. Very happy!

I've have a few tp-link Omada switches that run my home network and homelab. I have been using an Orbi mesh system in AP mode. It works great and never had issues, but I wanted to try and actual AP. At 8in, it's a little big but not too bad. It's very flat to the ceiling. The only issue with installation is the location of the Ethernet port. If you want the cable completely hidden you really need a slim Ethernet cable to go up into the ceiling, then a coupler on the cable to your run back to the switch. I recommend a 28AWG cat patch cable. It doesn't get too hot in my testing. I have a 2300sqft single story house and was able to put it almost in the middle. I have 1G Internet. The slowest speed through 4 walls, in the corner of the house is 600Mbps, which is fine. Latency is a little high at those far spots but good enough for wifi. Internally I can get 1.7Gbps using my phone which is crazy. The main takeaway here is this is a good AP for wifi 6 and you may only need one if you can get it in the center of your house.