TP-Link 5GHz AC867 Long Range Outdoor CPE for PtP and PtMP Transmission | Point to Point Wireless Bridge | 23dBi | Passive PoE Powered w/Free PoE Injector | Pharos Control (CPE710)

I installed these antennas to act as a bridge from my house to my gate (about 350m away, with a clear line of sight).In order to test the signal strength, I installed one antenna on my house and configured it as the access point. I built a small mobile test board, with a 12v battery and a small inverter to run the required POE for the antenna, added a wifi router, connected to the POE's LAN port and then configured these second antenna as the Client. Ifirst tested the signal assay my home, establishing a solid bridge connection between the two antennas.I then took my mobile setup, logged into the TPlink mobile manager on my phone, and walked down the road towards my gate. The signal was about 40 dbi at the house - max. It should have been much higher.By the time I was 100 meters from my house, the signal had dropped to between 19dbi and 7 dbi, depending on how I was holding the antenna. At this point, I could still easily see the access point on my houseAt about 150 meters, where my driveway slopes gently downhill, I lost all communication between the antennas.When I walked back 50 meters, the signal automatically re acquired.I tried this for a few hours, to no avail. I watched all of the tutorials, and adjusted all of the settings, with no improvement in signal strength.These are simply poor quality antennas. I verified this, when I tried a different brand ( with almost half the dbi) and was able to get twice the distance!Awful product.

Bought two of these 5ghz 710 units, set up one as an access point(ap), the other as a client, note there are multiple other methods to use these, as shown in the online documentation.The setup video for 710 doesn't specify that you can only 'align' via the client. set each up while attached to my computer using the fast method, and I enabled WPA protection. Then I attached AP to one of my source asus routers 'Lan' port, and the Client to my other Asus router 'Wan' port, (aprox 300' away) as soon as the routers realized they were paired, they became one network. I was using aiMesh, but the distance was a little too far (even with enhanced antennas on them), These may be overkill for this use, but they sure make my setup provide the same wifi speed in two locations. When my WIFI speed increases, these should handle it.update: 2 years later. These are working flawlessly. They have never been down/lost connection. I am very pleased on what 200 dollars can get. Highly recommend for some distance between 2 points... Bonus. The Sending Unit (which ever you set up connected to the 'Source' internet) broadcasts in a wifi range that you can connect to on your wifi enabled device. when within the radio path from the device. However, I do not use this functionality, as my two routers are close enough, to allow for uninterupted Wifi on a device... i.e. all around my house, and between, and all around the other router(both routers have same wifi Network Names (SSID) so devices auto switch to closest router)... Nice.

First the dislikes. TP Link did not explain how to set this product up very well. I had to find some 6 year old Youtube video for a different product and then add the knowledge from another video of a different manufacturer just to put this together. The antenna itself is fabulous and I tested this one out to about 5 km within a rural environment as seen in the picture. For under a hundred bucks it transferred 4k video easily with only a rough eyeballing method of alignment of the antennas. This unit will be part of a solar powered battery powered video survalience system so it's power consumption was perfect for that as well. Only tested, not completely installed yet. Line of sight is important so if you can't see the other antennae with binoculars from your Install then it may not work. Always buy 2 units, one that sends and one that receives. In my picture the other antenna is on that distant mountain side. I'd give 5 stars for the product, but the literature was lacking.

These units work awesome and may be at lower cost than ubiquiti equilavent. The only advantage the ubuquiti has over this is a wider spread of frequencies to pick from. This one only covers 5 ghz channels 149 to 161 in the upper 5.7 to 5.8 ghz range. Other than that, these are reliable and fast with very low latency. These units will work as an Access Point, a router/access point or a bridge. They will work very well with the TP Link Pharos EAP-225 omni directional, pretty much any ubiquiti 5ghz access point or bridge and will work as a bridge using any 5 ghz router as an access point.The advantage with these units is you can take advantage of the 80 mhz spacing if you have a router, another CPE 710, or an EAP-225 that is brodcasting on channels 151 to 155 on 80 mhz spacing. If you achieve SNR of 40 or better you can get a usable throughput over 500 mbps uplink and downlink with very low latency. Another cool feature is you can use the omada app or smtp features for remote management. I also like the ARP traffic monitoring feature if you use these in large scale WLAN or LAN applications. These units work well but you have to know how to set them up properly, point and fine tune and know all the little settings. I feel the negative reviews come from people who aren't setting them up right. I would also add that these may not work well long range in a noise environment, like setting up a a point to point between houses in an inner city area, The bridge will pick up interference from all the 5Ghz routers in the area. These work very well in rural settings with less noise. The UBIQUITI LBE-5AC-GEN2 Litebeam would be more suitable in noisy situations as you would be able to take advantage of frequencies on the lower 5 ghz spectrum.

It arrived quickly and packed well. Perfect for our application. The range extends more than what is listed. It was easy to assemble (we bought extra brackets for our application). So far it works very well and extends to our auxiliary building at back of property.