wifi One CPE710, 100 Meters, and a Building – Will It Work?

[ohruxzy 6]

Looking for advice on long-range Wi-Fi setup (TP-Link CPE710)

I’m planning to use a TP-Link CPE710 (5GHz, 23dBi) in client mode to connect to my friend’s Huawei router, which is about 100 meters away. There’s a medium-sized building partially blocking the line of sight.

I previously tried the TP-Link CPE210 (2.4GHz, 9dBi), but the connection was unstable—some days I’d get 30 Mbps, other days barely 1 Mbps—probably due to interference on 2.4GHz.

Where I live, there’s not much 5GHz Wi-Fi around, so I’m hoping the CPE710 will give me a more stable connection. I’m not looking for crazy speeds—just a consistent 10 Mbps up/down.

Anyone with experience using the CPE710 or similar setups—do you think it’ll work better? Any tips for getting the best results?

[Admin 2661]

Maybe this will help you...

 

[clanon 273]

what are the Huawei specs...model (that's HALF the network...) walls take at least 3db (depending in lots of factor Thickness materials metal is worse) the cpe has a lot of gain and needs a perfect alignment...but the router you are accesing needs to be free of metal obstacles on the LineOfSight...if possible otherwise you end up pointing to reflections and quality degrades a lot (passing vehicles cut MY connection sometimes Line of sight obstructed)

Edited April 20 by clanon

[clanon 273]

PS: the cPE210 with a better antenna could have worked better than the 5ghz one...imho 15 dbi at least and Free LineOfSight...

[ohruxzy 6]

 

@clanon I took a gamble and decided to buy the TP-Link CPE 710 — it's a 5GHz-only single unit, and I'm using it as a Wi-Fi receiver from about 100 meters away. The source is a Huawei router with a 5dBi omni antenna, but there's a medium-sized building made of bricks and concrete blocking the line of sight (so, no LOS).

Despite that, the good news is I managed to establish a stable connection, getting speeds between 40 and 100 Mbps depending on the time of day. I also made some tweaks on both ends: selected the best-performing Wi-Fi channel on the router, enabled Guard Interval and WMM, and set the channel width to 40 MHz for better performance.

Edited May 5 by ohruxzy

[ohruxzy 6]

also been gaming on it daily, no packet loss, or ping spikes, or connection drops nothing at all, might be picking up a strong reflection am planning to mod the CPE 710 dish for even higher snr around 25DB, any idea how to do that, would making extra panels from alluminum help?

[Admin 2661]

,,,for what 100 meter distance,to create a wifi bridge= Direct visibility, Distance 2.5 km.

[ohruxzy 6]

36 minutes ago, Admin said:

,,,for what 100 meter distance,to create a wifi bridge= Direct visibility, Distance 2.5 km.

hello, thank you for your answer, but i did not understand

[Admin 2661]

,,,you must not have any obstacles in front of the antenna...!!!!

[devton 30]

11 hours ago, ohruxzy said:

 

@clanon I took a gamble and decided to buy the TP-Link CPE 710 — it's a 5GHz-only single unit, and I'm using it as a Wi-Fi receiver from about 100 meters away. The source is a Huawei router with a 5dBi omni antenna, but there's a medium-sized building made of bricks and concrete blocking the line of sight (so, no LOS).

Despite that, the good news is I managed to establish a stable connection, getting speeds between 40 and 100 Mbps depending on the time of day. I also made some tweaks on both ends: selected the best-performing Wi-Fi channel on the router, enabled Guard Interval and WMM, and set the channel width to 40 MHz for better performance.

20MHz width of channel for 5GHz - that is what can help to increase speed while connecting through building

your choice of 40MHz width is good too...20 or 40 - one of this two will be best, other (wide) is not ok for this situation

 

is WMM on\off making any difference?

[ohruxzy 6]

9 hours ago, Admin said:

,,,you must not have any obstacles in front of the antenna...!!!!

i mean 100 mbps on 5ghz with a building as an obstacle with no LOS and only one unit of CPE 710 is already impressive

Edited May 5 by ohruxzy

[ohruxzy 6]

1 hour ago, devton said:

20MHz width of channel for 5GHz - that is what can help to increase speed while connecting through building

your choice of 40MHz width is good too...20 or 40 - one of this two will be best, other (wide) is not ok for this situation

 

is WMM on\off making any difference?

After extensive testing, I found that using an 80 MHz channel gives me significantly higher RX and TX rates, while 20 MHz performs the worst — possibly due to signal reflections or interference. Also, disabling WMM drastically reduces the overall speed so now using 80MHz channel is giving me 150 mbps down which is more than enough for me, i hope that doesnt change and it stays that way

Edited May 5 by ohruxzy

[devton 30]

16 hours ago, ohruxzy said:

After extensive testing, I found that using an 80 MHz channel gives me significantly higher RX and TX rates, while 20 MHz performs the worst — possibly due to signal reflections or interference. Also, disabling WMM drastically reduces the overall speed so now using 80MHz channel is giving me 150 mbps down which is more than enough for me, i hope that doesnt change and it stays that way

thnx for this data!

sometimes on vacation i am getting internet via wifi in non-optimal condition just like yours - through buildings and using not the most powerfull atennas 11-12dbi, linear polarization, so i will try to use 80MHz mostly

 

one lifehack, which i used before and it is well known for situation like yours (get through building):

use Circular polarization antenna while AP still using traditional linear polarization antenna - you still get bigger speed compared situation you use linear polarization antenna 

 

in your situation all already good - 150mbps with your hardware

but another time if you gonna need to get wifi via bigger building, trees, etc circular polarization may be helpful

[clanon 273]

23 hours ago, devton said:

20MHz width of channel for 5GHz - that is what can help to increase speed while connecting through building

your choice of 40MHz width is good too...20 or 40 - one of this two will be best, other (wide) is not ok for this situation

 

is WMM on\off making any difference?

40mhz for SPEED (ideal conditions no loss of Packets or jumping signal strenghth) ,  20 for stability (bad conditions , reflections , etc on 2,4ghz tho 5.8ghz is a different beast)