Hi,

Thank you for your reply. I was thinking the same thing - I actually have some spare Cisco ceiling rail clips hanging around, and they're readily available on Ebay.

My handicap is that I've never actually laid eyes on the EAP series yet. In fact, this very problem is what's holding me up from running out and buying one......

Has anyone out there actually attached the EAP to the Cisco clips? Do tell...

Thanks in advance.

- Dan

Hi,

Oh wow that is clever. Twists into place, and tighten it down with the screw. Simple, too. The Cisco clip is a Rube Goldberg contraption by comparison.

Which just goes to show ya... Cisco's motto must be, why do things simply when we can make things so much more complicated?

Thank you so much, I'll look into it...

  @dbdan22 

Hello all,

So I just wanted to update y'all on my EAP ceiling mount odyssey.

I have the Cisco Ceiling Grid Clip - AIR-AP-T-RAIL-R or AIR-AP-T-RAIL-F

Please refer to the holes marked "2".

So if you align one of the holes in the Cisco clip with the holes on the EAP mounting plate, then the hole diagonally across from that hole will just about line up with another hole on the EAP plate. It'll be just a hair off. Easy enough to force it, the screw has a coarse thread, it's not like you'll strip anything. Or you could widen the hole.

But there's a problem........

The screws that Cisco supplies are just a tad too short to get a firm grip. Add to that you're up on a ladder trying to get the damn screw in, too easy to drop the screw and lose it. And believe me I've done that more times than I care to remember.

So I need to match the diameter and the pitch of the Cisco supplied screw and get a screw that's just a wee bit longer.

The other issue is that without any modifications only 2 holes will line up. If you want to mount on all 4 screws you'll have to drill 2 more holes in the EAP mounting plate. Not the end of the world.

Oh yes.... this presumes you're using the 15/16" rail size, setting "B". Another size, you're on your own.

Still working on it..... that's where things stand.

  @dbdan22

Oh, and just a note to the TP-Link engineers . . .

Virtually every maintenance person, management, co-workers etc. that I've discussed this with, I tell them...

"the manufacturer would like me to poke 4 holes in the ceiling tile and attach the access point to the tile"

they make a face and say Whaaat????

yeah, that's what I said. I'm going to attach it to the Rails.

And they say, yeah, that makes sense.

Might want to reconsider this. Get the engineers and the patent lawyers together and discuss. Just a word to the wise.

Otherwise an excellent product.

Happy New Year.