TP-Link POINT D'ACCES CPE210 - Blanc

I upgraded from two CPE510 to two CPE710 a year or so ago as I needed faster ethernet ports. I've seen lots of reviews saying that they are difficult to assemble, difficult to configure and that the interface looks like something out of the1990s. The clue is in the name... "CPE" stands for "Customer Premises Equipment" - they are primary designed for network professionals to install and set up. It's not a basic plug-and-play bit of kit, like a range extender. And they are NOT designed to be used as outdoor access points - they are not great for that and Tp-link do not recommend them to be used as such in their documentation. Used in pairs to bridge one network segment to another they work amazing well. Mine beam over 600m, connecting two Cisco switches with negligible drop in speed, serving my office with 3 PCs, laser printer, CCTV, a Cisco access point, Raspberry Pi, weather station and goodness knows what else. RTFM and do some WiFi 101 research and you should be good to go.

I bought 2 of these to send gigabit broadband to my garden shed, approx 20mtrs. Pretty easy to set up but doesn't come with mounting poles. I referred to some pretty good tutorials on YT but pretty easy to sort. Set one as transmit and one as receive and hey prestro. 800mbps in my garden shed.Good value for money, easy to assemble, very fast Internet.

As with many pro level network things, consumer level set up has been forgotten. so you will need to do the whole IP address set up thing and in todays world TP-Link that's really a dumb move, it should have some kind of network negotiation built in so that you can make the initial set up easier, so for this reason I've scored it down.This being said I'm using it as a long range access point to some battery operated cameras and result to date have been solid. its running on its minimal power settings and once configured seems to do its thing without issue.

Works perfectly, a bit tricky to set up but once you figure it out it’s well worth it as it works very well, trouble free, as does exactly as expected

Okay, I am giving this review to this antenna based on what it was for me. First of all it's a very very slow device and sometimes also felt like as if it was defective. Every time I wanted to go to the main settings via IP address, this antenna would not allow me. I had to unplug it from power at least 5 times to have success one time. I don't understand the logic of this device to exist today in 2023. Every settings this device has is at least 20 years old. No matter what I did, it would hang and not move on or allow me to go to settings. When I was there after many times trying, I simply could not save settings or move to another option. For example picking up my location and setting up London time was impossible. It would stay stuck in China. TP-Link should remove this device all together from Amazon or Amazon should not allow it to exist at all. Please note, my review is for the TP-Link CPE710, 5GHz 867Mbps 23dBi Outdoor CPE Antenna. Thanks.

Set up quite easily in basic configuration but with a limited interface , difficult to find guest interface for multiple SSIDs couldnt control bandwith speed . Instructions limited

Took all of 3 minutes to slot together and under 10 minutes to setup. Great product - the range is impressive! Highly recommended

I brought this to connect two houses together on the same farm. It works very well, very little loss of internet speed between the two. Even handles sharing a Sky Q box from the main house to a mini in the next with no lost of quality at all. It connects just like it was close by. Highly recomended for properties like farms where normal wifi signals suffer more.