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.

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.

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.

This CPE is great. I've used this in a setup for a family member to get internet out to their gazebo that is about 150ft from their house. Streaming video for watching NFL games, MLB games, movies etc works great without issue. It's an awesome setup!With that, I decided to get one myself to have internet in my detached shop. It's only about 50 feet from my house. I have this device configured as a client to my home wireless network and then running to a small WIFI router in my shop that is in AP mode. Standing in the same room about 20 feet from my home WIFI router it was getting about 75mbps download (2.4ghz band) and with my setup to my shop I get about 60mbps in my shop. So it's a solid connection.Here's the thing that some people MAY be overlooking if they are running a similar setup. I have a 1gbps internet connection. That's NOT the speed I can expect over wireless. If I were to use the 5ghz band I can get decent throughput but I'd have to be pretty close to the home router. Anyway, this CPE says 300mbps throughput in the 2.4 ghz band. IF you were to get that throughput that is ONLY to the CPE, NOT to anything that is using it to access the internet. The catch (for me) was the ethernet port. It's a 10/100mbps so that's where the bottleneck is in my scenario. The fastest I could hope to get is 100mbps. For me, there's nothing wrong with that and it will work great. I'm sure for a lot of people's needs this will work great. I just wanted to put it out there in case people had certain expectations. If ou really need the greater speeds, get the TP-Link CPE710 as it has the 10/100/1000mbps ethernet connection and the ethernet interface won't be the bottleneck any longer.Bottom line: Good, reliable, quality product. 100% recommend!