CPE362 POE Gigabit Wireless Bridge Support VLAN with 2 Bracket Mounts, 5KM 5.8G Point to Point Outdoor CPE, Long Range PtP/PtMP Bridges for Network Extend, Security Cameras, Plug and Play

Exceeded expectations

I initially was not able to get these bridges working. However, the customer service worked with me over the next week or so, and we were able to get them functioning adequately well. The devices don't have the bandwidth that was advertised, allowing only a bit under 100 MBPS. This is adequate for my purpose, and other than that they are working perfectly. This was the best customer service experience I have had in a while, and I appreciate it.

----Update----Adalov reached out to me and asked me if I'd try working with them further (they sent me a set of bridges to test). I tried further testing and experiments with these bridges and can now see that the specific thing that doesn't work on these bridges is that DHCP packets don't pass through the bridges on the default untagged VLAN. I would expect this is the use case for most people needing bridges and if this is the only need you have, you should probably get the CPE365 bridges. These bridges pass through all untagged packets except the DHCP packets, which means a typical user with a ISP-supplied router serving DHCP address will not be able to provide IP address to the remote devices on the far side of this bridge setup.In my setup I have both an untagged (no VLAN tags) default VLAN 1 as well as several tagged VLANs. If I assign static IP's to devices on the default VLAN on the far side of this bridge setup, everything works as it should. For tagged VLANs (except 1), DHCP works fine as well as everything else. It's worth noting that simply configuring switches to tag packets for the default VLAN (VLAN 1 in my case), doesn't work either. In this configuration, no VLAN 1 tagged packets pass through the bridges. In general, VLAN 1 is a problem on these bridges because the manufacturer treats it special. I would suggest that anyone using these with a mixed environment like this attempt to make the configuration pass ALL PACKETS as VLAN tagged and DON'T use VLAN 1. If you do this things should work fine. If you must use VLAN 1, then you'll be assigning static IP addresses to devices connected to the network using this VLAN when connected through these bridges.----Original Review Below----I have previously purchased the "365" device from this manufacturer, which works fine for bridging untagged packets in a simple topology. However, I need full layer 2 bridging, and the "365" won't do it. These "362" devices are supposed to do this and I purchased them because technical support stated this is what I needed.I've invested many hours attempting to get this to work as expected but never arrived at a functional solution. Technical support was responsive to my inquiries, but the bottom line is that the firmware on these devices leaves a lot to be desired. It's as if the firmware is actually for another device so there are elements of the UI that are meaningless or incorrect, and the guidance for configuration is not helpful. Support provided a recommended configuration, but the end result was that it either bridged only tagged packets (802.1Q VLAN), or only untagged packets, but I couldn't get both to work at the same time. If you need full transparent bridging, I wouldn't recommend these. Maybe in the future the manufacturer will fix their firmware to work properly with UI improvements, but I was sent a firmware update as part of my exchange with them, and I noticed no difference in the UI, just a minor version change, and no functional improvement in device behavior.You might blame this bad review on, "this person just doesn't know how to configure network equipment", but I'm a network engineer working in the field for decades. If I can't figure this out, I don't believe the average person is going to make it work for the same scenario I needed to work.If you just need simple point-to-point bridging with no VLAN tags, you can probably get this to work relatively easily (if this is all you need then buy the "365"'s instead since they're cheaper), but these are described as capable of doing more and that's what I needed to work.

Once we got it working it worked great, very fast, worked at about 300 yards no problem. But that took a little more effort than expected. These devices did not come pre-paired as advertised. Once I couldn’t get it to work, I first watched a video on YouTube for manual pairing using the reset button. That didn’t work. Then I asked a network engineer friend to help. We needed to access the web interface and manually pair one to the other. With some web searches and little bit of knowledge we figured it out and these paired up. If you have a little bit of networking knowledge you can probably get it going, but if setting your PC into the proper IP range seems beyond your capabilities, you’re going to need some assistance.

I used this to send Starlink to my son's tiny house. Setting it up was no problem It connected and I left it to him to get Starlink to work with it. I assume he got it working. The only issue I had was with my home made network cable but once that was fixed it connected up and we could see the network.

Mounts easily with provided hardware, the coverage is good with a long line of sight connection. Recommended for ease of installation and use.

These are a very well made small antenna to share connectivity line of sight. I'm only shooting 150 feet but needed these to ensure a signal through exterior block walls. I don't have a lot of experience with wireless bridges but this was relatively easy to install and setup. I'm not doing any complicated networking so I can't speak to that sort of capability, but sharing home internet from my house to my garage these work great. Speed is solid and no ongoing connectivity issues. I saw others for a bit more and a bit less but figured at this price point it should be good and continue working.

This is the best Adalov PtP Wireless Bridge that I have tested yet. It can get a reliable 500mbps symmetrical connection between the two, even in a pretty noisy RF environment. Works with standard 802.3 POE switches making deployment very seamless and easy.They're pretty small and look pretty nice. For the price I think that these are great and actually compete with other market options. A great improvement over the previous Adalov brand Wireless Bridge that I tested out.They even support extra features like setting a MGMT VLAN and giving these network IPs to make management that much easier. Very happy with these.