TP-Link Festa FR205, Multi-WAN Wired Router, Up to 3 Gigabit WAN Ports & One USB WAN, Self-Organizing Network, Free Cloud, Load Balance, OpenVPN/IPSec/PPTP/L2TP VPN, Does not Work with Omada

it works wonderfully; you must follow the manual to the letter, and if you notice that nothing happens when you turn it on, you need to wait approximately 2 minutes for the system to start and network activity to appear. It was a surprise for me since I was used to connecting and immediately seeing network activity. What I liked the most is that the USB works as a WAN if you connect it to a MIFI from a service provider and activate it in the interface. To get gigabit speeds, don’t forget that the network cable must be category 6.

Out of the box, the FR365 has almost no features. To use even the most basic of networking functions, such as a firewall, you have to register to use the Festa Cloud site, where you will need to figure out the differences between a controller, a site, and a device. Then you get to hope like hell that when you get everything apparently set up correctly, the "Festa Controller" and the router itself will cooperate. They won't.Each will attempt to override the other's settings, and once one of them "grabs" the right to handle configuration, the other will be locked out. Either you will be told via the Festa Controller that your device has been "preconfigured", so you have to manage it thru the device's own web interface, or your device's web interface will tell you that you cannot log into the device itself because it is being managed by the Festa Controller (which you won't be able to log back into).The device's own web interface offers almost no controls: you can create WiFi networks and set up DHCP, and that's about it, which belies TP-Link's claim that you can use it as a standalone device without having to use the Festa Controller interface. Without even having a firewall to configure, or being able to give your own names to the clients in your DHCP list? Hard to believe that the Asus RT-AX55 that I thought I was upgrading from actually offers more local features, but without the Festa Controller interface, the Festa FR365 is really nothing more than an access point. I thought I was buying a router. Wrong.Even trying to back all the way out won't work. The Festa Controller and the device's web interface each tell you that you need to delete a setting from the other, and the Festa Controller site will tell you, at the drop of a hat, that you need to do a hard reset of the router to be able to proceed. Wiping everything from the Controller will take you quite a while because a site, a controller, and a device will all tell you that you need to delete a setting from one of the others first. Once you've finally managed it, and tried as carefully as possible to configure the device using the enclosed leaflet, you're just back where you started. After having re-entered all of my network settings over and over again, about nine or ten times over the past several hours, I am a very tired man.Back to Amazon it goes, and the Asus RT-AX55 goes back into service as I continue my search for the next step up

I purchased the TP-AX3000 Fest FR365 because I need VPN for a business to Cloud connection for a new cloud application implementation.I setup a new account for the cloud management which was easy and put in the Serial Number of the new AX3000, but I was initially unable to get it Imported into the TP-link management cloud.I tried the online chat for support and once I got past the AI question and asked to chat with a real human, I got connected to Edemer. I typed what we were seeing with the AX3000 being imported, but not connected. Edemer pointed me to the step where I needed to enable the device to be cloud managed. That step did not exist on the quick start guide, but it was in the user manual. I connected to the Web UI on the AX3000 directly and checked the setting to enable management from the TP-Link Cloud. I then needed to FORGET the device and re-import it. Within 5 minutes is was imported properly and manageable from the TP-Link Cloud management portal.The online support chat experience was quick and efficient and Edemer pointed me to the correct solution. The problem was fixed with 5-10 minutes after already spending 2-3 hours trying to get it to import on my own.The product itself seems good. I configured a few port forwards already and will be working on the VPN in the future. The port forwards even have the ability to limit the external source addresses using the port forward, so that is a helpful security feature.Thanks again Edemer for your help on the online support chat.

Might be a great router but the cloud only management was a dealbreaker.