Me and my dad are at our wits end with this project and in a desperate, final attempt before we try different hardware, I figured I would get on here and ask for help.

What we are trying to do is very simple, or so we thought.

We are using 2 CPE210's to make a wireless "bridge" across a pasture and then an EAP110-Outdoor access point to provide wireless internet to a small area.

We have never used TP-Link hardware before and were both a bit miffed to find that TP-Link's "bridge" mode doesn't appear to function like some other manufacturers bridge mode in that it requires an already present Wifi signal(?) to accept and re-broadcast, which we don't have.

My dad is more familiar with equipment that has specific "WDS bridge mode" settings that he can set 2 wired radios to for creating a point-to-point bridge, so TP-Link's terminology is confusing to him.

For what we are trying to do, it seems the only possible way to be set up is this AP / Client configuration.

Here is a diagram of what we have and are trying to do:

The problem is we can never get connected to the EAP110.

Every time we try - the device ends up with a 169.254.x.x address.

We can connect a laptop to the LAN port of Client CPE210 and it gets assigned an IP address no problem and can get on the internet and can ping everything in the network.

Plug in the EAP110 and nothing.

There is not a lot of configuration on the EAP110 - pretty much just setting the SSID and Dynamic or Static - we have tried both (and a bunch of different things in general) and nothing seems to work.

Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated - I can post more information about the configuration if needed, please just ask.

Thank you!