TP-Link5GHz N300 Long Range Outdoor CPE for PtP and PtMP Transmission | Point to Point Wireless Bridge | 13dBi, 15km+ | Passive PoE Powered w/ Free PoE Injector | Pharos Control (CPE510) White

ultimately the cpe510 does do an excellent job of delivering high speed wifi but there are lots of pitfalls to be aware of.the first thing to know is that 13dBi is just barely enough to reach the wifi hotspot that is less than a block away (1 block = ~ 500 feet). if you are in an RV you should look for a bigger more powerful antenna, this is unlikely to work for you. also anything less than 3 bars on the cpe510 meter (about 73db) and I could not get a reliable connection. if you have two cpe510s talking to each other apparently you can get this to work up to 10 miles. but when talking to an ordinary access point your range is much less.another thing to be very aware of is that unlike most wifi routers, this is not dual band, it ONLY supports the 5GHz range. some devices especially older cellphones don't work with 5GHz and require the 2.4GHz band. if I had realized this before I bought it I probably would have gotten something else. thankfully it didn't matter for my specific use case, everything I want to use it with is 5GHz capable.I specifically wanted to use this with an xfinitywifi hotspot (long story about areas of internet inaccessibility omitted) but I very nearly sent this back because it wouldn't work, it would connect but no traffic would pass. I spent several very frustrating hours online chatting with TP-Link tech support. two different techs were clueless about how to solve the problem and there was nothing in their knowledge-base about it., [update: a tech support supervisor contacted me to apologize for their techs failing to solve my problem, and we had a great conversation, they have now added this solution (below) to their knowledge-base so that in future anyone seeking help can be given the answer. I was very impressed by their response - you can expect super excellent tech support from TP-Link]I also spent many hours searching the internet trying to find an answer for why this wasn't working with xfinitywifi. so after days of trying different things and endless frustration and searching I finally got it to work and here is the answer that you need.xfinitywifi requires you to have a paid account that you login to (despite their claims about free access during covid) in order to use their hotspots. but what is not apparent is that they also register and keep track of the individual devices that you are using to connect with. none of that is actually a problem though. except.. for when it is.what is a major problem is that this link is nearly impossible to find, this is the list of YOUR registered devices. I don't know why they hide this link but they do at least as of when I am writing this.https://customer.xfinity.com/#/settings/security/hotspot-devicesin ~Bridge~ Mode the router is supposed to be transparent/invisible when it forwards the packets from one connection to the other. But I was unable to get that to work with the cpe510 and that is a huge problem which prevents it from working with xfinitywifi.thankfully there is a work-around (other than replacing the firmware with dd-wrt which voids your warranty). what you need to do is to get the cpe510 registered with xfinitywifi as one of your authorized devices. until it is registered as a known/approved device xfinity will refuse to allow traffic to flow to/through it.now the catch is that there is not any way to directly register the cpe510 with xfinitywifi. so instead you configure your laptop to pretend that it is the cpe510 and then you register your laptop with xfinitywifi. this will trick xfinitywifi into accepting the cpe510 as an approved device.what you have to do is to open up the cpe510 status page on your browser and find the MAC Address:the cpe has 2 MAC Addresses, the one that you want is in the WAN section, if you use the one from the LAN section this won't work, so make sure you get the correct one.Now for the tricky bit, I can't tell you specifically how to do this because it depends on your operating system and even varies by version and updates so you will have to search this out, once you know how it is actually very simple to do. But what you want is to temporarily set the wifi card of your laptop to use the MAC Address of the cpe510. on my laptop this entry is called Cloned MAC Address and is in the network settings. You just put the cpe510's MAC Address in that address field and you are all set.Now take your laptop to someplace where the signal is strong enough for you to directly connect your laptop to xfinitywifi. it can be any hotspot it does not have to be the same one that you intend to use with the cpe510.now just connect your laptop and login to xfinity. login.xfinity.com and then verify that the MAC Address of the cpe510 now shows up in the list of your registered devices.you also have to configure the cpe510 for WISP ModeThat's it you are done!!! your cpe510 will now be allowed to connect to xfinitywifi hotspots (any hotspot). be sure to reset your laptop's wifi card back to normal where it is using it's own MAC Address and not the cpe510s MAC Address.it's a bit of a headache, but if you are familiar with network settings this is a simple task. finding this info however took a huge effort, so here is my gift to you. Enjoy!bottom line, if you can find a strong enough signal for the cpe510 and you get the MAC Address registered following the above procedure (takes about 15 minutes plus moving the laptop) then the cpe510 does do an excellent job of delivering high speed internet via an xfinitywifi connection.P.S. this only applies to xfinitywifi , for any other use the cpe510 works fine without jumping through any hoops.

Works exactly as advertised! I bought two as recommended by the manufacturer and am seeing speeds of 50-60mbps transmitting about 600 yards. I did watch an instructional video for getting this set up to make sure I did it right and it was nice and easy to do. I'm very happy with this purchase.

Works good but has a somewhat tricky set up.I had to first change the LAN DHCP range, and exclude .254 from the suffix.Then had to connect item to router. I connected to the WAN port and couldn't access the antenna interface.I decided to try connecting to a LAN port. Now I can see the interface. Good interface. Switched to client mode and connected to another access point. Great!But no internet. So, I switched the antenna to the WAN port on the router. Now there is internet. But I imagine if I want to access the antenna interface again I'd have to switch it back to LAN port.

I bought these to extend to an Airbnb on our property. We're going 518' with good signal. 130 mbps at the router, and 70 mbps at 518', which I understand is pretty good. Pretty simple hardware installation, but adjusting the signal must be done through the software and requires a 6/10 technical expertise. Very easy to line up with each other. Highly recommended.

There is so much to potentially like about this product but ultimately I never got it to work in the field. This product fits in a difficult niche: offering features beyond the capability of most SOHO devices, but clearly not catering to network professionals. This requires relying on a web interface instead of CLI. Worst of all is that you MUST go through the quick config before you can get into the details of config through the web interface. Quick config determines what the interfaces are named (the ETH interface can be called LAN or WAN depending on which quick config you choose, etc). Quick config also forces you into routing or bridging, but you'd be hard pressed to figure that out from the documentation because it is severely dumbed down to the point of being essentially meaningless. All the docs will do is walk you through one "recipe" config to get a web cam attached to a single computer that is not already on any existing network. Not enough details for anyone who understands TCP/IP to know what's going on, too much information for the average home user to do anything with other than follow the recipe.The most frustrating feature of all is what appears to be a late addition to the product's security. To extend an existing network you need to be in "AP Router" quick config apparently. This causes the ETH interface to be named WAN since they assume it's hooked directly to the internet. It also forces the WLAN interface into bridge mode instead of routing mode and calls the interface BRIDGE. All of this would be fine but to protect the users from themselves it immediately deactivates the web interface on the ETH "WAN" port to prevent hackers from getting in to your modem. Anybody see the problem with that yet? Yep, you are essentially locked out of ALL the advanced features because there is no longer any way to get into the web interface. If it doesn't work, and you only get 6 questions in quick config to choose from, you need to factory reset and start over and get locked out again.After probably 2 dozen factory resets and some help from the forum deciphering what the instructions actually meant, I did get it working in the lab. It worked great actually and as frustrating as the VERY limited quick config choices were, they did force me into a working bridging config. It wasn't how I wanted it to work but it worked. Here I hit the biggest frustration of all: it doesn't act consistently after hard resets. I typically want to see multiple power cycles in the lab to have confidence that it works and take it out into the field. It just doesn't work that reliably. Sometimes it comes up on the manually set IP address, sometimes it reverts back to factory default. Sometimes the DHCP server starts, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it comes up split brain where it remembered the WLAN settings but forgets the LAN settings, and sometimes it just reboots itself continuously and can never even be pinged on LAN.After a couple of dozen more factory resets (in hindsight it must have been acting erratically all along) I had what seemed like a working config. It survived 3 power cycles in the lab so I took it in the field. Local ethernet never once came up, had the DHCP server start, and not spontaneously reboot. I've wasted hours on this thing, time to return it unfortunately and try a more expensive option. Too bad, they clearly spent a lot of time on this product and I really wanted it to work for me.

Llego rápido y en excelentes condiciones. Buena calidad

Very slow. Not get near 100 megas, get less than 40. Megs