Help in choosing equipment for SOHO

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Help in choosing equipment for SOHO
Help in choosing equipment for SOHO
2023-02-23 18:05:24

Good morning
 I have a few questions regarding the selection of equipment to support an efficient home network.
 In the new apartment, he plans to build a network in a rack cabinet: router + 3 EAP-655 Wall, wall points with wifi 6 technology and support for the 160 MHz band.
 Will the ER7212PC router handle 1 Gbps download and 200 Mbps upload without any problems?

 I will have about 15-20 devices connected to the mesh wifi on the EAP-655 Wall.
 Is it better to choose a different, more efficient router than you?
 I also want to be able to mount it in a rack cabinet.

 I am asking for a quick answer.
 Regards
 Krystian Tyczynski

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Re:Help in choosing equipment for SOHO
2023-02-24 11:19:46

  @Intense 

 

I think it is totally OK, it is a brand new product that tplink releases.

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Re:Help in choosing equipment for SOHO
2023-02-24 20:35:03

  @Intense 

 

Agree with @Virgo , as long as you aren't using the 7212 for extensive VPN tunnel/encryption its packet forwarding performance will be more than adequate for a 1G link.

 

You may want to be a little careful with your meshing (presumably to avoid wiring the 2 remote EAP655's).  Meshing uses the 5.8G band so any 5G clients (WiFi6) on those 3 APs will be competing with other clients trying to use the mesh backhaul radio link (meshed 5G clients double your traffic effectively on wireless connected APs).  In particular, 5G clients on the wired AP will be competing for bandwidth with ALL clients (2G and 5G) connected to the remote APs.

 

If you can find an alternate solution to backhaul from the remote APs (if not ethernet then powerline ethernet?) the solution will likely be more performant.

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Re:Help in choosing equipment for SOHO
2023-02-24 21:34:35
I will have EAP-655 Wall connected by cable.
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Re:Help in choosing equipment for SOHO
2023-02-24 21:40:35

  @Intense 

 

Perfect!  So lock all your 2.4G radios to 20Mhz channel width and leave everything else on auto and you should be flying.

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Re:Help in choosing equipment for SOHO
2023-02-25 14:16:16 - last edited 2023-02-25 14:19:48

Only the technical parameters of the ER7206(TL-ER7206) look much more efficient than the ER7212PC. Should the ER7212PC also be enough for me for such applications as I wrote?

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Re:Help in choosing equipment for SOHO
2023-02-25 18:47:40

  @Intense 

 

I believe the guts of the all-in-one routers roughly correspond as below

 

ER605-->ER7212

ER7206-->ER8411

 

As I said, as long as you aren't doing crazy amounts of encryption, you should be fine.  If you want to be super sure, spend the extra $100 and the get the 8411

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