TP-LinkER707-M2 | Omada Multi-Gigabit VPN Router | Dual 2.5Gig WAN Ports | High Network Capacity | SPI Firewall | Omada SDN Integrated | Load Balance | Lightning Protection

Bought this ER707-M2 to take the internet gateway job over from my NETGEAR RAX48, and mainly to gain a business grade VPN service. The RAX48 is a solid workhorse, but RAX48 VPN is very basic. The TPLink ER707-M2 has every flavor of VPN I could need to use from IOS/Android/PC/Mac/Linux clients and even site to site VPN with Microsoft Azure. The price is certainly great, and you don’t have to pay a bunch of licensing fees to anyone to get the services the device provides. Just buy the device, set it up, configure and use it. Connected the ER708-M2 to my Fibre to ISP, then plugged my RAX48 into the ER707-M2 and witched the Rax48 to AP mode. Configured VPN. Everything on the internal net is now accessible over VPN from anything and anywhere. Really pleased. And the clients OOKLA speedtests showed the same throughput results as before. Perfect.

I was looking for a reasonable priced router to put behind my Nighthawk CM2050v cable modem. The output of the cable modem is 2.5GB. I installed the ER707-M2 and switched my DECOs (x5700s and M9s) to access points to cover my 4 story house with a basement. Replaced my 1GB nic in my desktop with a 2.5GB to verify things are working properly. Install was very straight forward and easy. Updated the firmware in the ER707-M2 and the put the DECOs into access mode. This router is so much better than the onboard DECO router. I have about 50 devices online and no issues. Speed tests on the computer are steady between 1340 and 1400. I am more excited about controlling the router compared to whatever the DECOs were doing. Network storage is so much faster too. While it's only the 1 day of using this router I will update the review if something goes wrong.

Pretty good router. Speeds are good, but IPS/IDS slow

I'm a "prosumer," so this router might not be for the average person who wants an "easy" plug-and-play setup. But it's not complicated to set up if you know how to get to the web interface and know the difference between a WAN and LAN port.I purchased this router for its multi-gigabit capability, and it does not disappoint. Recently Comcast/Xfinity upgraded us to 1,200Mbps service, but the router and modem we had would only allow us to hit around 700Mbps. We first upgraded our modem and were hitting the same speeds, but bypassing our router with a 2.5 gig wired connection directly to our modem would allow us to hit 1,400Mbps, so I knew our 7-year-old router was holding us back.I did a bunch of research, and there were a few multi-gigfor upwards of $ router options 600 with nice app features, etc., but I could not justify the cost. I did find some people on Reddit in the same predicament, and this router was recommended, and was the cheapest option at $200 at the time of purchase.With this router, I can hit line speed speeds of 1,400Mbps as if I were directly connected to the modem. But there are some essential things to consider if you want to reach these speeds in your network.1. You need a router that your ISP approves for > 1 gig service2. You must have >= 2.5 gig hardware between the router and your computer. That includes your laptop/desktop having a >= 2.5 gig network adapter/card and any switches between being >= 2.5 gig.3. This only has two 2.5 gig ports, so you will need an additional 2.5 gig switch to expand > 1 gig service to your LAN. One port will connect to your modem, and the other port to your 2.5 gig switch to expand your 2.5 gig connections.There's also additional VPN hardware onboard to do site-to-site VPN connections at pretty impressive bandwidth for the price. I have not utilized this yet, but it is an excellent addition for someone who needs to be connected to a corporate network. But this is more advanced and probably unnecessary by the average consumer.Overall, I am super happy with the purchase and am now looking at their Wi-Fi mesh gear to tie it all together with the "Omada" management, which is similar to Ubiquiti's management software that I am probably migrating away from after this purchase.

If you have Omada devices on your network, this Router has issues. It will cause your AP's to go into a DISCONNECTED state, which is VERY FRUSTRATING. Best case you reboot the POE devices from your POE recovery switch, Worst Case, you have to get a ladder to reach the AP's to "REBOOT" them, only to have this happen every 24 hours. This is confirmed by several users on the TP-LINK forum (search in google)I do NOT recommend this Router until TP-LINK fixes this issue. (Logs have been sent to TP-LINK)2nd issue, this Router, though it says is supports OpenVPN, it not fully compliant. It is based on pre 2018 OPENVPN standard. In Sept 2018 TLS-CRYPT encryption was used. This device does not support that! Sadly it will not allow you to connect to 99% of the OpenVPN devices. So I'm back to using my old OpenWRT with luci to connect to my work OpenVPN.This router could have been so GREAT... But TP-LINK needs to update the firmware to fix the issues. I feel it was rushed to market too quickly.

Combining this with gigabit fiber has been awesome. My old Watchguard T-25 wasn't up to gig speeds... it struggled to give 300 mbs throughput. But this is great with the throughput.WARNING: adopt to the controller before configuring... it wipes and takes over.The VPN setup with OpenVPN was much easier than the old WG. Some different terms for the same results such as port redirection instead of SNAT.