CPE510, Long Range Outdoor CPE for PtP, PtMP Transmission 5GHz N300 | Point to Point Wireless Bridge, 13dBi, 15km+, Passive PoE Powered w Free PoE Injector, Pharos Control, White

UPDATE….I have now used this product for over a year to transmit WiFi from my cabin to a metal shed 100 yards away. It has performed flawlessly. Not a single hiccup. I use it primarily for WiFi calling/texts/internet searches on my phone. I added a wireless security camera so I can watch over the tractor, 4 wheelers, boat, etc when I’m not there. I added smart switches so I can switch off the shed lights at 10pm when I look out the cabin window and realize I left them on. Finally I put in a television with a Roku with the Tablo app to wirelessly access the cabin TV antenna. I can now turn on the football/basketball/etc game while I putz around with my chores. It works surprisingly well. Original Review…I spend a lot of time in a metal building barn 100 yards from my cabin. My eero mesh in the cabin will not penetrate the metal building. I purchased 2 of these cpe510 units. I installed one as the host in the cabin connected by Ethernet to the primary eero router. The other is mounted outside the metal barn with an Ethernet cable running inside to another eero router. IT WORKS! Coverage in the shed is excellent. No more walking outside the shed to make a call, send a text, or do a search. No more stopping work when I’m expecting a call. I am very pleased. I must say, the setup of the antennae was unusually difficult. The provided instructions were pitifully inadequate. I am handy, but no IT expert. Among many other steps, you are required to set separate static IP addresses for the host and client antennae. Even drafting that sentence makes my eyes glaze over. 🙄. I could not have completed it without the patient assistance of Edemer Nunez at TP Link support. He spent 45 minutes in the phone shepherding me through the setup process. Whatever they are paying him…it’s not enough. I own several products from TP Link. Particularly the Kasa 360 degree cameras. Excellent products that are easy to install and use. Not so with the CPE 510. The product works well. TP Link must simplify the installation process, AND, give Edemer a raise!

Hello! Thanks for looking at my review. I am very pleased with this TP Link product! In fact, I am so pleased with it that I feel that it is well worth reviewing on Amazon. Here is my setup. Essentially I am internet sharing with a family member. In order to d o so, I mounted an "AP" TP-Link antenna on the outside of their house about 12 feet off the ground. I then used CAT5e to wire a connect to it from the network switch. After that, I wired a TP-link antenna on my house in "Client" mode using the same configuration. I then plugged it into my ASUS wireless router. The mounting originally was not very good. They were not angled correctly so I used the meter built into the antenna to figure out the best possible angle. This was a fantastic feature that I am very grateful they included. After orientating them correctly, I began to receiving the signal. I established the internet connection and was getting 50/30 internet. I double checked with TP-Link's tech support (which was very responsive) and they said that was a really good connection. While the antennas say they can do 300/300, you have to look to see that for some reason the LAN connection is only 10/100. That being said, I was very pleased with the connection speed. I can steam 4K content all while browsing the internet. Overall, I am very happy with this antenna. I have tested it in several Minnesota storms - including wind, hail, rain, snow, and grossly low temps. If you're looking for a reliable internet connection using a fixed antenna, look no further. It gets almost no more reliable and consistent than this product. FYI, I purchased two. -----Update----- I now have had an uninterrupted connection for 20 days. I am extremely pleased with the reliability of this product! ____Update I still have yet to have an issue with this product. I was originally concerned because the max network speed is really limited by the 10/100 mbps network port rather than the 300 mbps wireless negotiating speed, but frankly I have never had a significant slow down. I have a constant load on my network due to four iPads, one TIVO, three laptops, four Google Homes, six smart switches, three smartphones, two ROKU TVs, and other miscellaneous devices. Most of these are constantly running some sort of process in the background if they aren't being used actively. While my up/down speed test shows I'm usually getting 30/30 - 50/40, the connection and speed are so stable it doesn't matter if I'm not getting faster up/down speeds. I will set a calendar reminder to update this during February! We'll see how rural Minnesota weather treats them.

I bought this CPE to extend WiFi to an outdoor pavilion with 2 goals: 1) Provide WiFi for guests, 2) Allow a Roku to connect to WiFi for video streaming. initially, we have a mesh system in the house put a node in the window facing the pavilion to try to meet these goals. It was unreliable for guest WiFi and the Roku did not even see a signal. My plan was to put one unit in the window aimed at the pavilion in Access Point mode and put another at the pavilion as a receiver in the x mode, then connect a mesh node to the receiver. When installing, I first tried just using the one Access Point unit. It worked! Wifi is now available anywhere in the pavilion and the Roku has a "Good" signal strength. That allowed one unit to be returned and saved a mesh node. Last, CPE's can be complex. However, the TP-Link user interface helped make this one easier to use. I highly recommend this unit.

I'm a certified network engineer with over 20 years experience, so keep that in mind. I work on network devices like this every day. So far I like the TP Link wifi bridge. We are connecting a guest house to the main house internet connection. The guest house is 400-500 feet away from the main house. The main house (transmitter, or Access Point) is mounted outside. The guest house receiver (client) is actually indoors, facing the main house, with direct line of site, resting against the exterior wall of the guest house. This is the 3rd network bridge I've setup for this situation. The prior two solutions were from engenius. However, I like the TP Link solution better for the following reasons: 1. the web interface to manage the devices has a few more options and is easier to use, in my opinion. 2. The devices utilize 10/100 Mbps wired ethernet ports. Although this is counter-intuitive (how can you get 300Mbps wifi when the Access Point is only 100Mbps?). However, in my experience, these wifi bridges are MORE RELIABLE when the uplink is only 100Mbps. If you are ONLY downloading from the internet, the gigabit ethernet devices work well. However, if you are trying to work remotely from the remote location, you need reliable uploads as well. In this situation, 10/100 ethernet seems to be more reliable. The TPLink bridge solution uses a priority connection protocol (not an industry standard) when using two TP Link access points. This seems to work well, as advertised. With a simple button option you can change the priority from Throughput (for streaming downloaded video, for instance) to Latency (for using video calling, Voice over IP (VOIP) calling, etc). This option does seem to work well, and it only has to be enabled on the receiving end (the "client"), and not on the transmitting end (the "Access Point"). Also, switching the setting doesn't require a reboot of the client device so you can make that change on-the-fly. There is an important setup tip which applies to any wifi bridge solution that you end up choosing: You need a computer with a physical ethernet port to connect to the devices for the first time. I have a few MacBook laptops, and none of them have a physical port. I ended changing my home wifi ip address to match the devices (192.168.0.x), and plugged the devices into our existing wifi router. Then I could connect to them to program them, change their default IP address, etc. I downloaded the user manual from the internet before they arrived and read through it a few times, so by the time they arrived I knew exactly how to program them for our situation. Another reason I went with TP Link is, our home wifi router is TP Link and I've been happy with that device as well. Most of the wifi bridges that you see on Amazon are from mysterious companies that I never heard of. When I finally found the TP Link, I was much more confident ordering it. I hope this helps your decision.

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-devices in ~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 Mode That'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.

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.

*5 month update* while im still not thrilled about the false advertising mentioned below, I am a bit impressed by this. in bridge mode this thing is rock solid stable. I have not had a single issue with this loosing connection to my main router, it just works. this provides a data connection to a remote POE switch that runs six POE security cameras, three of those are 4K cameras. I couldn't ask for better reliability. I do have ping watch dog enabled on the unit so if it cant ping my routers IP it will auto reboot after 3 failed pings 1 minute apart, so it is possible it could loose connection from time to time but it fixes itself before I notice. while this will work for my needs it looses 3 stars for blatant false advertising. while the wireless does have a theoretical connection speed of 300mbps the ethernet port is only 10/100. in bridge mode using the ethernet as the output I cant use the max bandwidth. doing a speed test I only get 93mbps throughput out of the ethernet port. another major issue is this item does not adhere to normal POE standards i was hoping my outdoor POE switch would power this but when connected the switch doesn't indicate a device connected to the port and the AP doesn't power up, I have to use the included POE injector. this is an issue since the POE switch is hardwired and has no outlets near it. I'm considering cutting the plug off the injector and hardwiring it inside the housing with the POE switch. don't get me wrong, like most TP link items, this unit is quality but if it had a gigabit ethernet port like it should have had and followed normal POE standards instead of requiring the included injector it could have been much better. Photos are of my completed remote security cam POE switch using this as it’s connection to my network. I haven’t deployed it yet. Due to the Poe issue I mention above I had to glue the included POE injector into the enclosure and cut the plug off to hard wire it. I know it the pics the ground isn’t covered with shrink wrap and that is because it doesn’t have to be, the ground shorting to the case is a good thing. The hot and neutral wires have shrink wrap to protect against short circuits. Not much room left in the enclosure for 8 camera drops but I’ll manage. *UPDATE* this device does actually follow a POE standard, its just passive POE. My switch is for active POE devices. a vast majority of POE devices are active. Passive is a cheaper standard to follow. Passive POE will not work with active since active POE switched communicate with the powered device to determine its power needs. the switch cant negotiate with passive devices so it just ignores that something was plugged in.

tl;dr, it's been very reliable. No random reboots / freezing or anything. It's been installed and running for about 8 months (Through Wind, rain and sun). Pretty good for the price and easy to setup. I've always had problems getting a stable Wi-Fi connection outside in general. I figured it was time to try something) Ended up getting the TP-Link 5GHZ model, and it's been working good! The basic setup is, I have my router in the living room. Just outside, I attached the 5GHZ model to the nearest wooden 4 x 4 post near the house. (Between the router and the TP-Link is probably about 20 feet.). I basically just zipped tied it lightly around it without tightening it. You then just align it to where you need the internet. I had mine about 6 feet from the deck just to keep it away from everything. This part is probably the best if you have someone to help. One person near the repeater and the other near the 'Barn' or whatever building you want it to go to. Find a app from the Appstore and that can show the Wi-Fi strength. I personally use 'an app called wifiman'. Walk around the area you need Wi-Fi to be and, map out the strongest signal. The other person can move and adjust it. Once you have a good signal, make sure to zip tie it to whatever you have it on. (The long zip ties make it easier if you have them). That's pretty much it! The only other thing to do is, hook it up to your computer, and get the settings how you like it. I've had this running all the time and haven't had any problems with it. (Going on 8 months since I set it up). I'm hoping this can help someone and I wanted to share my story, of a Wi-Fi repeater that actually works!

The CPE works well and the connection is stable. However, the speed is limited to around 80 Mbps, which is lower than expected. Other than that, it performs really well and reliable.

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Exceptionally good product. Connected farmers house receiving 4G internet to AI milking parlor 400 yards away. Very easy install, alignment and setup. Highly recommend.

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These work well to get a shed over 200m away from the house connected to the NBN. The speed is 6x faster than my 50Mbps plan, so plenty of spare. They claim to work up to 29km, but I cannot test that. I do wonder about the robustness of the materials. They feel more like indoor consumer products than outdoor devices. I also have doubts about their ability to withstand the hot Aussie sun. We will see. Mine still work after 1 week. I will update if/when they fail. Update: still working in August 2020.