Next, there’s the 2.5GbE WAN port, the USB 3.0 port, the Power button and the Power port. At the top, we get the WPS and WiFi buttons, followed by the three LAN ports, from which only the third is 2.5GbE (the first two are Gigabit). Turn the router the other way around and you will see a fairly large black band that cuts through the case and contains all the ports and most of the buttons. Further down, there’s the Internet LED (green when active, orange when the link is down), the Ethernet LED (one for all – still better than the single LED approach), the USB LED and the WPS LED. There is a silver line on the front with eight status LEDs, the first lighting up when the router is powered on, the next three will light up if the 2.4GHz, the 5GHz and/or the 6GHz WiFi network are enabled. The passive cooling of the TP-Link EX920 AXE7800 seems to be done right and, as you can see from the photos, the router operates at a proper temperature. Is this approach enough to maintain a good inner temperature? TP-Link EX920 AXE7800 – heat management. There are also some ventilation holes at the bottom, thus leaving the sides of the device intact. At the top of the TP-Link EX920 AXE7800, there is a narrow canal which I guess could have had an LED to shine through (I am glad they didn’t go this route), but it is used to push the heat away from the components. Obviously, you’re not going to be able to install the WiFi 6E router on the wall or even insert it in a rack, but again, the advantage is that it has a small footprint and I suppose it will better blend in with the furniture due to the lack of any external antennas. Still, despite being tall, you’re not going to be able to easily push the device on its side because TP-Link made sure that the EX920 has a low center of gravity. The router doesn’t occupy much desk real estate, but it’s a very tall unit, measuring 9.1 x 4.5 x 4.5 inches (23.2 x 11.5 x 11.5cm) and it kind of reminds me of the tower-like Linksys Velop mesh units (plastic rectangular case covered by a white matte finish). Yes, we get plenty of ports and there is no single LED nonsense, we get a proper array of status LEDs. The TP-Link EX920 AXE7800 follows the design of the mesh systems units, so it does have a very minimalist look, but without some of the main drawbacks. The TAUC (TP-Link Aginet Unified Cloud).TP-Link EX920 vs Zyxel SCR 50AXE vs NWA220AX-6E vs EnGenius ECW336. Internal Hardware (TP-Link EX920 Teardown).UPDATE : I added the TP-Link EX920 AXE7800 to the TAUC. That being said, let’s put the TP-Link EX920 AXE7800 to the test and see the wireless performance and whether the Aginet platform is a worthy competitor to the other systems on the market. Unlike other WiFi 6E routers (such as the SCR 50AXE), the EX920 AXE7800 does provide a 2.5GbE WAN port and a single 2.5GbE LAN port, the others being limited to Gigabit, so the provider can confidently push for data plans above 1Gbps. There is support for 160MHz, which I suppose can be considered mandatory for 6GHz, there’s also OFDMA and MU-MIMO, as well as WPA3 encryption. TP-Link EX920 AXE7800 WiFi 6E Router.īeing a WiFi 6E router, the TP-Link EX920 is tri-band and does allow compatible client devices to connect to the 6GHz band. So, the TAUC is an ambitious move to enter a new branch of the US-based networking market and TP-Link decided to make available three devices, from which the EX920 is (currently) the only WiFi 6E router – the other two are WiFi 6. Obviously, any sys admin that manages a larger network could take advantage of most of the provided features, but TP-Link does have available the Omada Cloud controller specifically tailored for this specific audience.
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