TP-Link EB810v - Quick overview

[mac34mac]

I have tried EasyMesh with both your models, it works. Ensure that your EasyMesh is enabled on both routers, factory reset your BE230, then find the mesh within the browser, if still cannot find, set your BE230 to EasyMesh satellite mode. If still cannot, set to satellite mode, then connect both by Ethernet cable, paired already, then disconnect the LAN cable. 1 of the method will work, I have tested compatibility for a few models, all works.

Hi, I'm looking for another router to form a mesh with EB810v. Initially thinking to go with another EB810v, but after reading this, I'm considering this BE230 instead since it is cheaper and smaller in size. I have network port at another room where I want to setup the second router. I do not need 6GHz band and 10Gbps connection as I do not have any end nodes with WIFI 7 and 10G port. I just need to setup a mesh network with the EB810v. Do you think BE230 is a good option?

 

[kashix]

Hi, I'm looking for another router to form a mesh with EB810v. Initially thinking to go with another EB810v, but after reading this, I'm considering this BE230 instead since it is cheaper and smaller in size. I have network port at another room where I want to setup the second router. I do not need 6GHz band and 10Gbps connection as I do not have any end nodes with WIFI 7 and 10G port. I just need to setup a mesh network with the EB810v. Do you think BE230 is a good option?

For sure bro, if you need something simple!
If you have the budget for another EB810v, can get another also! Can’t hurt! Future proof!

can get from COMEX, $179 for BE230!

 

[zhix]

Is anyone using 2 units of EB810v on a mesh setup? For your MLO network, does your device connect to the controller unit only? I can't seem to have a MLO connection on the agent unit

 

[mac34mac]

For sure bro, if you need something simple!
If you have the budget for another EB810v, can get another also! Can’t hurt! Future proof!

can get from COMEX, $179 for BE230!

Thanks for the quick reply. Is the BE230 given by M1 telco locked?

 

[xiaofan]

Thanks for the quick reply. Is the BE230 given by M1 telco locked?

No, it is not locked. M1 is good that they offer consumer router models which are not locked by any ISPs.

Indeed you may be able to get the TP-Link Archer BE230 BNIB units at much cheaper price from Carousell (dumped by M1 users) than from the physical/online shops, say at about S$100.

Same for TP-Link Archer AX72 from Carousell, which is at about S$80.

M1 tends to offer free lower end routers which are still much better than the junk routers given out by SingTel (all Acadyan/Askey/Airties models are junk) and Starhub (Nokia Beacon 1/2).

 

[jrwong84]

For sure bro, if you need something simple!
If you have the budget for another EB810v, can get another also! Can’t hurt! Future proof!

can get from COMEX, $179 for BE230!

$100-120 can get liao carousell many selling it after sign up broadband.

 

[kashix]

$100-120 can get liao carousell many selling it after sign up broadband.

Also another alternative source hahaha

 

[MArVeLIciOUS888]

I just got a USB network adaptor and was testing the signals around my house. The adapter is the UGreen 2500mbps type c and I'm using my Samsung S20 (all my devices n laptops are quite old ie > 3.5 yrs old). I did the speed tests on Sun 4pm - 5pm. My family members are also at home using their laptops and devices (gaming, xbox, video streaming etc).

The results are as below:

2.5 port --> S20 - DL 300mbps, UL 1200mbps
2.5 port --> Home embedded LAN points --> S20 - DL 300mbps, UL 1200mbps
WiFi6 (1m in front of EB810V) DL 600mbps, UL 700mbps
WiFi6 (8m away in a bedroom with door open) DL 300mbps, UL 200mbps

I guess it's peak period on a Sunday afternoon / evening, so I'll compare the speed with other timings and weekdays.

I have 3 questions that I hope someone can help clear my doubts:

1. I was comparing the ratio of the download and upload speeds. Ethernet upload speed seems to be always about twice the speed of download speed. WiFi, the speed seems to be about equal. Is there a way to increase the download speed for ethernet and sacrifice the upload speed? I'm guessing download speed will be more important.

2. The WiFi download speed at 8m 300mbps is about equal to the embedded LAN point 300mbps (both are at the same location in the house). This seems odd and actually quite disappointing. I had intended to install either a switch or maybe another EB810V by LAN ethernet. Based on the results, is it a waste to do this? My son is building a desktop and it will have WiFi7. He usually closes the door when he is gaming or watching TV on his laptop.

3. The upload speed of the embedded ethernet LAN point in the bedroom is averaging 1200mbps and I do see it hitting 1350mbps at the max. My house was renovated back in 2011 and I can't remember if I used cat6 or cat5e cables for the LAN points in my house. Since it hits 1350mbps and is averaging 1200mbps, will I be right to say it's not cat5e? The type of cable will of course be a major factor in whether I will use switches / more EB810Vs or other APs for my bedrooms.

Will appreciate good advice, as always.

 

[xiaofan]

I just got a USB network adaptor and was testing the signals around my house. The adapter is the UGreen 2500mbps type c and I'm using my Samsung S20 (all my devices n laptops are quite old ie > 3.5 yrs old). I did the speed tests on Sun 4pm - 5pm. My family members are also at home using their laptops and devices (gaming, xbox, video streaming etc).
The results are as below:
2.5 port --> S20 - DL 300mbps, UL 1200mbps
2.5 port --> Home embedded LAN points --> S20 - DL 300mbps, UL 1200mbps
WiFi6 (1m in front of EB810V) DL 600mbps, UL 700mbps
WiFi6 (8m away in a bedroom with door open) DL 300mbps, UL 200mbps
I guess it's peak period on a Sunday afternoon / evening, so I'll compare the speed with other timings and weekdays.
I have 3 questions that I hope someone can help clear my doubts:
1. I was comparing the ratio of the download and upload speeds. Ethernet upload speed seems to be always about twice the speed of download speed. WiFi, the speed seems to be about equal. Is there a way to increase the download speed for ethernet and sacrifice the upload speed? I'm guessing download speed will be more important.
2. The WiFi download speed at 8m 300mbps is about equal to the embedded LAN point 300mbps (both are at the same location in the house). This seems odd and actually quite disappointing. I had intended to install either a switch or maybe another EB810V by LAN ethernet. Based on the results, is it a waste to do this? My son is building a desktop and it will have WiFi7. He usually closes the door when he is gaming or watching TV on his laptop.
3. The upload speed of the embedded ethernet LAN point in the bedroom is averaging 1200mbps and I do see it hitting 1350mbps at the max. My house was renovated back in 2011 and I can't remember if I used cat6 or cat5e cables for the LAN points in my house. Since it hits 1350mbps and is averaging 1200mbps, will I be right to say it's not cat5e? The type of cable will of course be a major factor in whether I will use switches / more EB810Vs or other APs for my bedrooms.
Will appreciate good advice, as always.

Use the laptop to carry out wired test.

My 3 year old Acer laptop (Intel Core i5-1135G7 CPU, 16GB/512GB) has no issues with 2.5Gbps (using USB to 2.5G NIC) and 5Gbps (with USB4 to 10G NIC).

My 6.5 year old Acer laptop (Intel Core i5-8250U CPU, 8GB/256GB) has no issues with 2.5Gbps using USB to 2.5G NIC.

 

[xiaofan]

It will be interesting to see if Singtel and Starhub are using the TP-Link Aginet Unified Cloud (TAUC) Unified Cloud Management Platform to manage HB810 and EB810v.
https://www.tp-link.com/us/tauc/

 

[willy792003]

To be honest, router is only as good as how often it is being maintained (bug fixes, new features, security updates, etc.). Hence, this has to be one of the worst router cos SH hasn't released any update yet. If I knew they are this bad, I would have chosen other plans or ISPs that provide consumer model router or even no router cos I can buy my own.

On top of the bugs I mentioned on my other post, now I am experiencing problem with 160 Mhz on DFS channels, which is my optimal config cos I can get 1.8 Gbps on wireless. It keeps switching back to 80 Mhz on channel 157 for whatever reason (this only happens on 240 Mhz before). Really really frustrating!

 

[xiaofan]

To be honest, router is only as good as how often it is being maintained (bug fixes, new features, security updates, etc.). Hence, this has to be one of the worst router cos SH hasn't released any update yet. If I knew they are this bad, I would have chosen other plans or ISPs that provide consumer model router or even no router cos I can buy my own.

On top of the bugs I mentioned on my other post, now I am experiencing problem with 160 Mhz on DFS channels, which is my optimal config cos I can get 1.8 Gbps on wireless. It keeps switching back to 80 Mhz on channel 157 for whatever reason (this only happens on 240 Mhz before). Really really frustrating!

CH157 and 160MHz is probably a bit difficult in typical Singapore household situation. After all, all the current consumer WiFi 7 router does not have good MRU/Puncturing support. You may want to try CH60.

As for 240MHz on 5GHz, that is probably only theoretical in typical Singapore household. I know TP-Link likes to show off and write the spec of 5GHz with 240MHz channel bandwidth. In reality that is not really pratical.

TP-Link EB810v/HB810/Deco BE85 --> EHT240 is not really practical for triband WiFi 7 even with good Multi-Resource Units (MRU) and Puncturing implementation (let alone with the current poor implementation). It is more practial to use HE160 (5760 Mbps or 5764 Mbps). So TP-Link's BE22000 is in reality the same as BE19000.
BE22000 Tri-Band WiFi: 11520 Mbps (6 GHz, EHT320) + 8640 Mbps (5 GHz, EHT240) + 1376 Mbps (2.4 GHz, EHT40).†△

Reference: UNII-4: 5850MHz to 5925MHz is not approved in Singapore; CH169 is also not approved.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WLAN_channels

Reference:
https://dongknows.com/5-9ghz-wi-fi-6-explained-how-unii-4-can-be-exciting/

 

[Henry Ng]

What is the processor and RAM for this SH TP-LINK wifi 7 router?

 

[xiaofan]

What is the processor and RAM for this SH TP-LINK wifi 7 router?

Processor --> flagship Qualcomm IPQ9574
RAM --> Initial version 2GB RAM, newe version may be 1GB RAM, firmware may limit to 1GB RAM.

Good HW spec, but crippled by so-so firmware. For example, as a service provider model, it lack of certain features compared to the consumer version (eg: no built-in OOkla SpeedTest feature, less security features, less VPN server options, etc).

Worse is that EB810v suffers from various firmware bugs and yet TP-Link is slow in providing firmware updates to fix the bugs.

That is probably one of the reason that TP-Link EB810v is at about S$400 resale value in Carousell whereas TP-Link Archer BE800 is at higher price, even though HW spec is similar.

 

[Henry Ng]

Processor --> flagship Qualcomm IPQ9574
RAM --> Initial version 2GB RAM, newe version may be 1GB RAM, firmware may limit to 1GB RAM.

Good HW spec, but crippled by so-so firmware. For example, as a service provider model, it lack of certain features compared to the consumer version (eg: no built-in OOkla SpeedTest feature, less security features, less VPN server options, etc).

Worse is that EB810v suffers from various firmware bugs and yet TP-Link is slow in providing firmware updates to fix the bugs.

That is probably one of the reason that TP-Link EB810v is at about S$400 resale value in Carousell whereas TP-Link Archer BE800 is at higher price, even though HW spec is similar.

If RAM is only 1Gb then finish la. At least must be 2 Gb RAM.

 

[xiaofan]

If RAM is only 1Gb then finish la. At least must be 2 Gb RAM.

That is not true. 1GB RAM is sufficient for this router.

 

[Henry Ng]

That is not true. 1GB RAM is sufficient for this router.

The lack of RAM will force the ISP to have a tiny firmware so lack of features that it should have. Quite Sad. However It is better than that ONR.

 

[willy792003]

Processor --> flagship Qualcomm IPQ9574
RAM --> Initial version 2GB RAM, newe version may be 1GB RAM, firmware may limit to 1GB RAM.

Good HW spec, but crippled by so-so firmware. For example, as a service provider model, it lack of certain features compared to the consumer version (eg: no built-in OOkla SpeedTest feature, less security features, less VPN server options, etc).

Worse is that EB810v suffers from various firmware bugs and yet TP-Link is slow in providing firmware updates to fix the bugs.

That is probably one of the reason that TP-Link EB810v is at about S$400 resale value in Carousell whereas TP-Link Archer BE800 is at higher price, even though HW spec is similar.

BTW, who will provide update? TP-Link or Starhub? Given that it's service provider model

 

[xiaofan]

BTW, who will provide update? TP-Link or Starhub? Given that it's service provider model

TP-Link. But only through Starhub network.

So if you are not using Starhub user, better do not buy EB810v.

 

[JT2008]

Firmware updated yesterday for Starhub.