[OpenWrt Wiki] TP-Link EAP225 series
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I’m looking at buying a couple of EAP 225s to provide outdoor coverage for two houuses about 15 meters apart - But I haven’t been able to confirm how much memory or The CPU it uses to determine if it would meet my needs. I’m looking to run a few Wireguard connections to route traffic through some other gateways as well as proving WAN access for approx five people. Would want to provide captive portals for visitors and some age related content filtering of Internet access for selected devices.

  • towerful@programming.devEnglish
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    7 months ago

    TP link is more meant for omada control, isnt it (like unifi, but by tp link and a bit cheaper).
    Mikrotik do outdoor APs, 4 core 32 bit arm w/ 128mb ram ( https://mikrotik.com/product/wap_ac )
    Probably not enough to run captive portals, content filtering, wireguard etc. tho.

    Wouldnt you be better centralising that onto something designed to do it?
    Seems like something more for opnsense (or a central openWRT, seeing as thats the community) on a fanless server, a few managed switches and a few APs

      • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        7 months ago

        It looks like there there are likely multiple variations of the device. However I have a indoor TP-Link AP and it works pretty well.

        • abeorch@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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          7 months ago

          Ah yeah Im looking at the outdoor version. Does it have the same cpu/memory? Looks like its about €75

          What do you use the AP for?

          • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
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            7 months ago

            I use it for WiFi access. Mine has 1gb of ram but it is not used heavily

            My upstream router has 128mb of ram and it idles in around 50mb