ZyXEL NWA130BE | BE11000 Enterprise Grade Tri_Band WiFi 7 Triple Radio POE Wirless Access Point | 2 X 2.5G Multigig LAN | Easy App Setup|Ceiling/Wall Mount| W/O Power Supply|Cloud Access|Smart Mesh

The wizard for the Zyxel NWA110BE was easy and the access point was quickly working. There are plenty of options to set later for tuning. I found the list of connected devices with the signal strength very helpful. My house has 3 storeys - the signal at the top of the house is weak, but I have another WAP up there. Zyxel's community is useful and Zyxel themselves will answer questions. I found the video courses on their website recently, and those helped further. I used a USB-c PD adaptor to power this instead of PoE.

It is always the question what you need it for, but if you are looking to set up a series of access points on one site, the convenience of Zyxel Nebula (with the caveat that I think the app and web-interface are too old fashioned) is beyond more consumer oriented brands. Adding a device to your existing site is as easy as scanning the barcode on the back of the device and you are set.

Ich bin wirklich begeistert von meinem neuen Zyxel Access Point! Die Geschwindigkeit ist beeindruckend, die Reichweite deutlich besser als bei meinem vorherigen Gerät und die Verbindung ist absolut stabil. Dank ihm konnte ich meine alten Powerline-Adapter komplett entfernen – jetzt läuft alles über WLAN, und das sogar viel schneller. Klare Empfehlung!

Set up was easy. Multiple SSIDs and VLAN tagging work as expected. It's a simple, powerful AP that lets my 10+ year old OpenWRT router keep doing its thing while giving my network clients modern speeds. The only two snafus: Firstly, when running off PoE, it didn't recognize that my TP-Link Omada injector was capable of 30W so it was running in "low power mode," but there was an override setting to fix that. Not sure if the problem there was on the AP or the injector. Secondly, I only have a single WiFi 7 (6GHz) client, and it is off most of the time. 6GHz APs aren't allowed to broadcast that all the time and they rely on clients discovering them via a 5GHz network first. I haven't quite figured out how that works, so the most consistent way to get my desktop to connect on 6GHz is to reboot the AP after the desktop. Again, I don't know if this is an AP problem or something with my Linux/NetworkManager/iwd/device firmware stack. (I would bet NetworkManager...) But overall, it seems pretty great. Between a Wifi 7 (6GHz) client and a 2.5Gbps wired client, I'm seeing ~2.35Gbps of payload data throughput with iperf3. Between that same 6GHz client and a Wifi 6 (5GHz, 160MHz), I'm getting 1.25Gbps. Energy consumption from the wall (again, using the TP-Link injector) is ~12 watts at "idle" (~20 clients connected, between computers, phones, tablets, and IoT) and ~17 watts when running those iperf3 tests. There is a manufacturer supplied OpenWRT build for this NWA130BE, though I haven't used it yet and don't intend to until it's better documented/tested. The fact the manufacturer published a build at all is promising, though.

really brilliant product, but expensive, without power adapter and requires License on Nebula for advance management. what i love the most about it, is easy manageable by Nebula. full control WLANs, captive Portal, and a-lot more.