TP-Link OC200 Omada Cloud Controller

Personally I love products by TP-Link, they are priced competitively and usually have great build quality.They have many different products of different sizes and such depending on your home/business or your wallet size.This, was a very fair price and works well. The software is great and it gives you a lot of control over the network unfortunately due to it also being cloud operated I have found that I have had down time and connection issues as well as slow load times. If it was just running through my network I believe I would have better performance and slightly better security because it would be managed by me and on my local infrastructure. But alas we do not live in a perfect world do we and the product they do give us is pretty solid and there is no ... MorePersonally I love products by TP-Link, they are priced competitively and usually have great build quality.They have many different products of different sizes and such depending on your home/business or your wallet size.This, was a very fair price and works well. The software is great and it gives you a lot of control over the network unfortunately due to it also being cloud operated I have found that I have had down time and connection issues as well as slow load times. If it was just running through my network I believe I would have better performance and slightly better security because it would be managed by me and on my local infrastructure. But alas we do not live in a perfect world do we and the product they do give us is pretty solid and there is no monthly price or pay walls for the software or the cloud service. And it is for the most part plug and play with some easy setup in the panels. It satisfied my needs and requirements where I live in a home with a few other renters around me and I resell my WiFi to those who have no better or other alternatives, it allows me to manage my private networks as well as have a network I can sell coupons for where coupons go out of date and so on. It does what I need to do which is all I can ask for with just a few hickups from time to time.Overall love the product and love other products from TP-Link!

Excellent

I am using this device to manage a small mesh network of TP-Link Omada WAPs in a home network environment. I don't have a full-time server to run the Omada Cloud Controller software, and didn't want to run it off my workstation. I considered building a Raspberry Pi to run it but this device was cheaper. Physically the device is small and metal, with rubber feet and screw holes for wall mounting. Install was a breeze, PoE means minimal cable mess. A rackmount would be a nice touch if you wanted to nitpick, but otherwise this is great. Setup was also a breeze, the browser interface is refined, intuitive, and polished. The device needed to update firmware on both AP's to adopt them but the through-network firmware upgrade system is slick as could be. Since then it has ... MoreI am using this device to manage a small mesh network of TP-Link Omada WAPs in a home network environment. I don't have a full-time server to run the Omada Cloud Controller software, and didn't want to run it off my workstation. I considered building a Raspberry Pi to run it but this device was cheaper. Physically the device is small and metal, with rubber feet and screw holes for wall mounting. Install was a breeze, PoE means minimal cable mess. A rackmount would be a nice touch if you wanted to nitpick, but otherwise this is great. Setup was also a breeze, the browser interface is refined, intuitive, and polished. The device needed to update firmware on both AP's to adopt them but the through-network firmware upgrade system is slick as could be. Since then it has been chooching right along, consuming almost no power, and doing its job flawlessly. Yes, this is wildly overkill in a home network application– clearly this is built to manage dozens and dozens of AP's. But I enjoy that aspect of this product, this thing is commercial-grade and it shows. TP-Link has really done a nice job of step[ping up to Ubiquiti's level, offering similar if perhaps lighter-duty products at a much more reasonable price-point. Two thumbs up for sure.

It's fair but nice to not worry about the controller

For $99 and what it does - and given the fact you can run the controller in a free Docker instance - I kinda wish the stupid thing had a bit more on board storage for logs... or allowed a USB thumb drive to hold logs. The lack of logging capacity and no way to extend it really dings the device to be honest. Big deal that I can back up the device on an external hard drive - logging!!!Otherwise - it lets you manage all your Omada stuff easily - and that's nice.

Jason's review of TP-LINK OC200 Omada Cloud Controller

Pros: Easy to get started. Brilliant portal layout. Supported by a brilliant phone app.Cons: Oddly not to easy to find and set up scheduled times for WLAN / WiFi access. Minor issue but given the ease of use for all the other options with the device, its odd how the scheduling of the WiFi access point is not as easy. Still a great product and ideally suits for home or light commercial users.

Just fantastic.

The TP-Link Omada equipment is just so well executed that I don't even know what to say. They made it so easy for me to set up a reachable secure network at my short-term rental. The OC200, router, switch and wireless access point were all self sensing. So I just had to connect and plug them all in in their default settings and let em rip. Set up was a breeze with the app. You have to do some study to understand it all, watch some youtube vids... but sheesh. Really refreshingly simple and so far, quite stable. Highly recommend.

Works very nicely

I am very happy with how this product is working for us. It took a while to get set up as I had to shift some Access Points (APs) over from a software-based controller and I had to upgrade some of my APs for them to be compatible with the new controller. Now that it is set up, it is working great. I had problems migrating the APs so I just reset them, then adopted them in the hardware controller based network.Using this product helped me figure out some problems I was having with a few of my APs, I have mapped where the controllers are in the building so I can identify where one is quickly now if it is misbehaving, the APs seem to be working well as a mesh network (automatically picking up the common SSID and password when they join the network), and updates are ... MoreI am very happy with how this product is working for us. It took a while to get set up as I had to shift some Access Points (APs) over from a software-based controller and I had to upgrade some of my APs for them to be compatible with the new controller. Now that it is set up, it is working great. I had problems migrating the APs so I just reset them, then adopted them in the hardware controller based network.Using this product helped me figure out some problems I was having with a few of my APs, I have mapped where the controllers are in the building so I can identify where one is quickly now if it is misbehaving, the APs seem to be working well as a mesh network (automatically picking up the common SSID and password when they join the network), and updates are now just a click away.