Omada ER8411, Enterprise Wired 10G Dual-Band VPN Router

I have had this installed in my network now for a week so I can do a proper review. In terms of build quality TP-Link didn't take any shortcuts, its well made and comes with everything you need to rack mount this or have this sitting on a shelf with the included rubber feat. Stability this week has been very good with no issues in dropped connections between my two ISP's coming in through it downstream to my many devices. Setup was of course easy with the Omada Software which I ran locally on a VM but I would imagine it would be just as smooth with a hardware controller like the OC-300. Speed of course has been really good thanks to the 10GB connection to my primary switch so no issues in bandwidth. The automatic failover worked fine for my dual WAN connections and the failover for the power worked as well as I did test both by physically removing the cable from the port. in terms of value for money, this is a mixed bag. If you have already invested a lot of money in TP-Link with their 10GB switches and AP points then yeah the value is totally here. However if most of your network is 1GB devices and so is your WAN then you can get the model below this that supports 2.5GB and save yourself some money. Bottom line this product meets what I have come to expect from TP-Link and their Omada platform and would be an easy recommended purchase for someone already fully invested in the platform.

After struggling with networking issues In our office I decided it was time to upgrade the network. Fully committed to the Omada ecosystem with switches, router and access points. Auto configured and was up and running in min. Tons of features for vlans etc.

New lease on Comcast service. New wireless gateway with phone and 2.5 gigabit ethernet. That means a new 10 gigabit VPN router. My desktop is an extreme gaming with a 10 gigabit ethernet port. Old router was a TP-Link ER7206 1 gigabit ethernet ports. The big headache was you must copy the MAC address from the old router and paste the MAC address copy to the new router. Worked as soon as I paste the new MAC address otherwise it will not work. The new TP-Link ER8411 works nearly the same as the old TP-Link ER7206. I went through page by page with both routers with two laptops typing down the exact same settings in the new TP-Link ER8411 VPN Router. Testing VPN tunnels worked the same as my old TP-Link ER7206. Don't forget copy the MAC address from your router and paste the MAC address copy to your new TP-Link ER8411 VPN router.

This Router is the most advanced. I changed it for the ER7206. It has a lot of goodness. It's a beast!

I bought the TP-Link ER8411 thinking I’d just upgrade my network… instead, I accidentally achieved “small ISP energy.” This thing is an absolute monster. Ten WAN ports?? I barely have friends, let alone ten internet connections—but now I could, and that’s what matters. Setup with Omada SDN was surprisingly smooth, and suddenly I’m sitting there creating VLANs like I know what I’m doing. (I don’t. But the router believes in me.) Performance-wise, it’s fast. Like, “why did I ever tolerate slower internet” fast. No hiccups, no random drops—just clean, stable, enterprise-grade vibes. The SPI firewall adds that extra layer of “I am now the cybersecurity department,” which is both comforting and mildly concerning. Also, the build quality? Solid. This thing feels like it could survive a lightning strike—and apparently it’s actually designed to help with that, which is reassuring because my previous router looked like it would lose a fight with a strong breeze. Bonus: I now spend an unhealthy amount of time checking network stats for fun. If you want a router that makes you feel powerful, slightly overqualified for your own home network, and dangerously close to starting your own ISP—this is it. 10/10 would over-engineer my Wi-Fi again.

Networking professional here. I bought this router because I received 10Gb capable internet service recently and needed a router that could support this. For the price, I'm impressed with the breadth of features this unit has (IPv4, IPv6 including Prefix Delegation, traffic analytics, and a variety of traffic shaping and VPN solutions). It also includes dual power supply which is usually a premium feature on way more expensive boxes. My only gripe is that there are some tools missing for IPv6 (e.g. ping and traceroute don't function for IPv6)

I have the 10G version. It works pretty well. Configuration is involved. It only has two 10Gbps ports, so you have to buy a 10Gbps switch to go with it unless you're only connecting a single computer. The biggest problem is that it runs an ancient version of OpenWRT. The software it's running was released in 2014 (12 years ago as of the time I'm writing the review). You guessed it, riddled with major security flaws. It's open source, and tp-link does provide the source - which I've analyzed. Two critical, one high, and the remaining 42 vulnerabilities are medium. Further there are three hooks in the firmware for it to connect to Chinese website "tencent wechat". I'm running it in my home. I wouldn't recommend running it in a business.

Works very well, was relatively easy to set up. I'm using Wireguard and I'm getting 500u/d on gigabit fiber.

Had a issue with bell new giga hub. It has a software glitch. Tech's at bell know this and are waiting for a update. I had tried to use the ethernet 10gig jack. Bypassing the router. Using it as a modem. Had to call bell to down grade to bell hub 3000. Once it arrived bell tech showed up next day with the sfp adapter. Used the bell hub for one day making sure no dropping of internet. Once all was good I installed the sfp into the er8411 router. Had to update firmware and the speed jumped to above 1.5 gbe. Hit 1800 download and 1100 upload. Wow. It has sfp+ input and multi wan configurable inputs. I can use the tc4000 dual link wan connection. Trying to get my cable provider to allow this. This router is fantastic. Only wish it had a qsfp output. A 40 gbe lan. You can use the multi wan as a 4 link aggregation to a tp link switch and really move data from point to point. The unit also has usb 3.0 for printer or better yet a USB lte stick. Wish tplink has a USB lte 5g coming soon. If you want me to test one i am happy too try.

Very poor Tech support

This is a great core switch for both small office / home office and residential to help take advantage of multi-gig internet connectivity. I've had the switch installed for about 10 days now and it has been functioning seamlessly. My only complaint is that the switch is configured default for private IP 192.168.0.1; I failed to catch this fact during the initial installation, and it crashed my network due to an IP address conflict with my router, which has the same IP address. After realizing this, I disconnected the switch from the network and connected a computer directly to it (manually configured for IP address on the 192.168.0.x network) and logged into the switch's web interface to change the switch's IP address to one that is available on my live network; and then reconnected the switch to my main network. After doing this, I was able to easily adopt the switch via Omada SDN controller (OC300). TP-Link should have this switch default to DHCP for IP addressing, which I believe the majority / all of their other Omada SDN switches do.

The configuration interface is the same as basically every other TP-Link device. No surprises there, but that does mean the menus are basic and very simple. At the very least this doesn't require a controller and can be configured in standalone mode, however this lacks a lot of configuration options you would expect to see in a more enterprise-class device. I'm pretty disappointed with the firewall and security options, there are basically none. As for performance, with iPerf3 and a few processes I can get 9.46 Gb across the WAN link in both directions which is fantastic. I had trouble getting the full 10Gb with HTTPS transfers or Ookla speedtests but I think that could be due to my cheap desktop NIC. Not sure. I wish there were at least some better options for traffic shaping. The most curious thing was my WiFi performance tanked. With my pfsense router, my EAP660HD has no problem getting 800 to 900 Mb/s downloads on my wireless devices. When I swapped in the ER8411, my download and upload speeds dropped to ~ 150Mb/s. I could still get full speed to local devices on my network, but anything over the WAN had very poor performance. I couldn't figure this out, and the ER8411 doesn't have much in the way of a UI to diagnose it. Maybe a firmware bug or config default that I couldn't see, not sure.

This is a great router. Takes a little work to setup, but the options are great.