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Review on 🌐 KuWFi 2-Pack WiFi Bridge, Long Range Wireless 5.8G 900Mbps Point to Point Access Point Indoor/Outdoor AP CPE Kit | Supports 2-3KM for PTP/PTMP by Heather Nelson

Revainrating 2 out of 5

Bad documentation; without support; infant mortality; but cheap.

Conclusion: It worked great at first, but only delivered about 25Mbps. Almost no security by default – public, published passwords and credentials. Terrible documentation. Through trial and error, I reached speeds of up to 80 Mbps. (I was hoping to get close to 100Mbps.) No tech support. After 2.5 days, one unit began to fail and failed permanently on the 4th day. Return, try another brand. More details: I got them to access the internet from my house to my barn, about 70 yards away, there are no trees or anything in the way. I installed them about 20 feet high. Good things: Initial setup was easy and the bridge function worked right out of the box, although documentation was minimal. The blueprints made it pretty easy. But I only got about 25Mbps from that link! (And one of the two units started to fail on day 3. On day 4 it failed completely.) -Cheap! But you will spend a lot of time if the default values do not suit you. The default settings are terrible for security! Bad: - One of the boxes broke down on the third day. It wasn't an instant big bug, it became increasingly unreliable until finally on day 4 it just stopped responding. I've spent a lot of time on it. I am sending them back and buying another brand. The text "Quick Setup Guide" is a mess. I couldn't get the buttons to work as described, possibly user error, but I can't tell. (The reset button worked.) - No technical support. No reply to sent email. The question asked in Revain went unanswered for 3 days and the question that finally came up didn't help and my follow up question went unanswered. I figured out how to set up boxes through the web interface and I've made some progress. Я думаю, что должна быть возможна скорость около 100 Мбит/с (не 450, я думаю, что это рассчитывается исходя из 225 Мбит/с в каждом направлении, и я подозреваю, что порт Ethernet сигнализирует только со скоростью 100 Мбит/с, но I'm not sure). I got up to 80Mbps bandwidth (measured with iPerf) and almost 60Mbps internet (measured with OOKLA speed test). For comparison, I get 300-600 Mbit/s at home with iPerf and 150-200 Mbit/s with Speedtest. Security is a joke if someone can get in the way of the signal. If you install them you really need to get the web interface working and change the defaults - and you need to change them on each end, there seems to be NO way to apply the change to both endpoints at the same time. This can be a fun exercise in defining "funny". By default, the units of measure are set to 802.11AN, not 802.11AC. Why? Who knows, there is no documentation at all. The default bandwidth for devices is 20 MB. 40M and 80M are customizable. It's not bandwidth, it's signal bandwidth. There is no documentation from KuWfi, you have to google 5G WiFi and read up. Changing the bandwidth setting didn't change the channel, although you should be limited to what channels you can use with 40M and 80M. KuWfi doesn't let you set up the right channels for 40M or 80M, so it might automatically use the right channels when you change the bandwidth. Again, no documentation, so who knows? - The documentation lists the default IP address of one of the boxes, not the other. You suspect otherwise. I think it's +/-1 but I don't remember now.

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