EAP610-Outdoor - Is it really Omni-Directional?
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Based on the description, this AP is Omni-Directional BUT based on my actual testing, this is directional.
Infront of the AP, I can get a good signal even at 400Meters away.
Both sides and back of the AP has a very poor signal even at 10Meters only.
All test have no obstruction and with line of sight to the AP.
Am I missing something in my Omada setup?
This is an older app note, but give you the idea of where TPlink is thinking when it comes to outdoor APs
https://www.tp-link.com/us/support/faq/1044/
If you need omni outdoor, you should grab the EAP225-outdoors, they have two dipoles which are omni. My bet is the EAP610-outdoor has a printed antenna array (ie PCB antenna and these are often directional).
Here's proof they are PCB antennas
To: FAE,
How come that your description about this AP is omni but in actual performance, this is directional.
Source: EAP Datasheet (full version).pdf (tp-link.com)
The beam patterns of the 225 vs 610 from the datasheet you linked, would seem to argue that the 610's are actually more consistently 'omni', but the 225's may concentrate more useful power in an imaginary 'doughnut' shaped zone around them where users are most likely to be, rather than fairly equally distributed throughout a sphere surrounding the 610...but maybe I'm reading these wrong, it's been a while!
At least the 225 plots have coloured positional markers and an image to help you orient yourself!
