TP-Link 5GHz 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.

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.

We have installed this for over 1.5 years now so this review should be able to give the real user experience.1. Speed. We have 300 fiber, but this antenna only gives us about 10M, but it's probably due to our situation, we have 2 big trees in between and a big transformer, I imagine that interferes a lot; But 10M is more than enough for our use case;2. Range. Our setup is cross 300 feet (roughly 100 M), again we have lots of interference in between so this is still good;3. Functionality. As long as it works, it's super reliable and we didn't need to adjust anything or reset, basically set it and forget it;4. Durability. 6 months after it was put in service, the server (sending) side died, the light is still on, but there is no way to get into the web UI, contacted the TPLink CS but couldn't figure it out, it's bricked for no reason; eventually we bought a replacement and have had no issues ever since;5. Mountability. Super easy, a zip tie is all you need.6. Warranty. Warranty is generous, however customer needs to pay for the shipping which cost more than half of the unit price. We threw away the bricked unit instead of going through warranty claim because of that.Overall, it's a good product, as long as it works.

I bought a pair of these to give me internet in a remote building. It worked.I expected them to be somehow linked on a special frequency but, no, they just use regular WiFi channels.You can use them for a distant link or for an area WiFi extender.I'm happy with them.