 Hey guys welcome back to my YouTube channel Daniel Rosal here going to be doing a video today on the TP-Link EAP-225 A31350 EAP Wi-Fi access point. Now this is a bit of a mouthful I'm going to get into the video in a second about how to set up the band steering but I just have to make a couple of observations the reason I've titled this video in this matter is because it's very very confusing I'm on YouTube as you can see and if I take away this and just go for TP-Link A31350 I'm going to be getting up a couple of different products one variant of the Archer router which has got nothing to do with an access point or it has an access point in it but it's a router not a standalone access point and if I type in TP-Link EAP-225 I'm going to be getting an outdoor AP which is not what this is so the very specific product description is as I understand it TP-Link EAP-225 and this variant this kind of white box that looks a bit like a ubiquity is the AC-1350 variant with the OMADA controlling and you can mount this onto your ceiling as well which is nice I won't get into what an AP is if you're watching this video you probably already know for those who are curious it's a way of basically breaking down a typical home network which has a box which does modem router and AP the AP broadcast the wireless network and this just does the job of broadcasting the wireless network so if you're deploying a wireless network in an airport or a hotel or a large business you can't just have one little box serving a huge building so APs are used and there's Ethernet backhaul to the router in this case it's actually power over Ethernet or PoE so what I want to cover in this video is how to set up band steering this particular access point comes with 2.4 and 5 gigahertz Wi-Fi as any modern Wi-Fi AP does these days and there's a little option here for band steering that's not enabled by default and I think it's very useful let me read what it says to run the band string function on an SSID please create the SSIDs on both the 2 gig and the 5 gig band and make sure they have the same name security mode and wireless passwords so by default what I did when I set this up I just got back to my wireless settings here is I created two networks Daniel Wi-Fi stores with the same password I've just changed it for the purpose of this video for both networks the 2.4 and the 5 and I kind of said well I'll choose them manually but it's a lot more convenient to just have one network and that's what band steering does it'll automatically select the better performing network for wherever you are some places the 5 gig will perform better some places in your house the 2.4 gig might perform better so what you need to do is make sure that the SSIDs on both networks firstly enable the two ones and make sure it's the same SSID same password so that's my 2.4 that's going to my 5 gigahertz network here you can see it's same SSID Daniel Wi-Fi stores and its YouTube demo I have the same password on now when I go into band steering I can click on this enable button and click save and now we have a network and that's really all that's involved now instead of seeing two different networks on the as I use this network I'm going to be only getting one network and that's going to have it's going to automatically choose whether the connecting client end client is going to be receiving wireless over 2.4 or 5 gigahertz I hope that video is interesting thank you guys for watching quick note on this product I think I might do a review on it at some point my first impressions I actually have the existing network up in my in-laws at the moment to compare it with and the performance on this TP-Link product is faster in five faster wireless internet the two access points and the router is on the exact same place so this is performing very well very happy with it thank you guys for watching more videos coming soon