How do I connect 3 buildings using CPE510 hardware
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Re:How do I connect 3 buildings using CPE510 hardware
Hello, I have some trouble with getting align the second pair,
as you can see in the picture first antenna, set as AP is on the top of a hill mounted on a post and the second one is at the bottom of the hill an a post too, visually there is a direct line of sight between them but I could not make the Client to connect to the AP, distance is 411 m
The hill dose not have a regular slope, it has a bulge ( that's why only the post is visible in the picture) but as I said before direct line of sight is available.
For a brief moment I succeeded in connecting the Client to the AP , I hat excellent signal strength cca -58 dbi but the connection was no good, when pinging the AP I got TTL form 1 ms to 1000 ms
What could I do to make it work?
as you can see in the picture first antenna, set as AP is on the top of a hill mounted on a post and the second one is at the bottom of the hill an a post too, visually there is a direct line of sight between them but I could not make the Client to connect to the AP, distance is 411 m
The hill dose not have a regular slope, it has a bulge ( that's why only the post is visible in the picture) but as I said before direct line of sight is available.
For a brief moment I succeeded in connecting the Client to the AP , I hat excellent signal strength cca -58 dbi but the connection was no good, when pinging the AP I got TTL form 1 ms to 1000 ms
What could I do to make it work?
Re:How do I connect 3 buildings using CPE510 hardware
R1D2 wrote
Yes. Could be caused by another AP or a weather radar operating in the 5 GHz band (depending on where you live) or anything else. Blue means "peak", red is "current" and yellow (actually sand-brown) means "average" level of signals/noise. But it's not my YT video, I'm just a user of TP-Link gear.
This is a snapshot of a spectrum analysis I just did on my CPE510. Best frequencies (see arrows) would be around 5.480, 5.520, 5.600, 5.640, 5.680 and probably 5.560 GHz. But 5.480 GHz (channel 99, red arrow) isn't allowed in my country for WiFi, so I have five channels with very low noise, namely channels 104, 112, 120, 128 and 136, where on channels 116 to 132 radar could appear then and when, so I would avoid those channels if possible.
Sure. This is called Point-to-Multipoint (PtMP) mode. The CPE510 also offers MAXtream, a time-multiplex technique to ensure that every CPE client get's an equal amount of AirTime, thus minimizing interferences of the CPEs on the same channel (you can't use different channels if all clients are connecting to the same AP).
But you should pay attention to the antenna's beam width of the CPE, which is 45° on the H plane and 30° on the E plane. Therefore, if you want to distribute a WiFi signal in a wider range, you should consider use of the WBS510 with a sector antenna such as the TL-ANT5819MS, which offers 120° antenna beam width. See picture below for a typical PtMP setup using 3 CPEs and a WBS with sector antenna. The WBS510 runs under the same operating system as the CPE510 does.
Thanks for information, great answer