Is EAP225-WALL really limited to 100Mbps uplink?

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Alex

2018-10-04 00:07:02

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Is EAP225-WALL really limited to 100Mbps uplink?

2018-10-04 00:07:02

I've been waiting for the eap225-wall to be available in the US but noticed that the uplink and additional ports are all listed as 10/100. Is this a mistake? All of the other AC EAP's seem to have a gigabit ethernet port.

According to the specs on the website it has:

Interface	1 x 10/100Mbps Ethernet uplink port accepts 802.3af/at power supply as PoE power device (PD) 2 x 10/100Mbps Ethernet Port 1 x 10/100Mbps with PoE pass-thru (requires 802.3at PoE+ power supply on PD port.)

Is this just a mistake in the marketing material or is it really a fast ethernet AP instead of gigabit?

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2018-10-05 10:57:40 - last edited 2018-10-05 11:00:41

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Re:Is EAP225-WALL really limited to 100Mbps uplink?

2018-10-05 10:57:40 - last edited 2018-10-05 11:00:41

Alex wrote:

Is this just a mistake in the marketing material or is it really a fast ethernet AP instead of gigabit?

It has a Fast Ethernet interface as does the EAP115-Wall have, too. Both devices are meant for supplying WiFi for some nearby rooms, e.g. a hotel room. If you have a hotel with 50 rooms each equipped with a EAP225-Wall, this yields a total bandwidth of 50x 100 Mbit/s for the uplink.

WiFi speed is much higher than Ethernet speed in order to keep the AirTime low. Note that WiFi is a half-duplex medium shared by all users, so even if the AP offers Gigabit speed on the WiFi side it will be shared among all active devices on the same channel/frequency. Gigabit speed for the Ethernet side makes sense if you have 50x devices connecting to one AP, but not if you have 50x APs to which only a hand-full of devices connect to.

Thus, if you need to supply a conference room, use an EAP225. If you need to supply single rooms, use an EAP225-Wall.

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Is EAP225-WALL really limited to 100Mbps uplink?

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