Ubiquiti NanoBeam M5 16dBi High-Performance airMAX Bridge Antenna

I used a pair of these to link a house and a shop building a couple hundred feet away. Setup was easy and these worked way better than other wireless bridges I have used in the past that were more expensive. They are a lot smaller than I was expecting too. Across the relatively short distance I was using them alignment was no sweat, just point them in the rough direction of each other and I got 4 bars signal strength and a very good quality link according to the web config pages.Just set one as an access point and the other one as a station, enabled WDS on both, and configure the SSID and encryption settings to match on both units. Bam, it's like you ran a really long cable between your two locations.Not sure how long this will be accurate, but the picture Amazon currently shows for this item is wrong. They just recently change it for some reason, and the picture is currently of a completely different Ubiquiti product. Just do a google image search for the model number of this unit to make sure you looking at an accurate picture of what you are getting.If you can configure a wireless router without using the "do it for me" wizard, then you can configure these. Setup is pretty straight forward and Ubiquiti has a bunch of helpful videos on their website too.

These are great for extending WiFi in rural areas without running fiber underground. They are not for beginners and should be setup by someone who know's what they're doing with networking/wireless. If you are savvy, you can follow a youtube video, there are hundreds. The one flaw of these are that they are limited to 10/100 network speeds which you may know, 5GHz can do faster than 100. Overall I'm happy as this client didn't need anything super fast. If you want a full gigabit backbone, go with the nanobeam AC model.

MEH. Has been a major pain to get aimed and connected. I am not overly impressed with ubiquity. Kinda like a linux system. If you have the time and know how you can make it work well. I don't have the time and time is money. In the long run and turnkey product that does not require tweaking is more cost effective. I expect if they spent a bit more time making their products more out of the box plug and play I would use more of them. I am using the ubiquity cameras and those are decent. This product, pain in the lower region. Still don't have it working right. One was DOA out of the box, took weeks to get replacement but they did replace it so CS gets a kudos from me.

These are ridiculously powerful and fast. I used a set as a wireless bridge for a Roku streaming media box at an outdoor bar. Always performs as if it was a direct wire run from the router. The drawback is that you need to be a techie to program and install these. There's no easy setup wizard etc, you really need to know your way around the Ubiquiti ecosystem to get the most out of these units.

Bought theses in 2018. Had my IT guy install and they worked phenomenal for a little over 4 years. Then out of blue they both died. Same IT said he a several sets that have lasted way longer than 4 years and are still working great. I will have over $500 into replacement. Obviously way out of warranty but just beware.

I have two buildings 700 feet apart. They have unobstructed line of sight to each other so it should be easy for these. Indeed it was.Setup was a bit tricky because I'm far from a network engineer. I have a complicated home network, but it's all consumer gear (two of these, 3 switches, 4 access points and a router).I was shooting for a transparent wireless bridge, which the instructions imply is a great use for this product. The trick (I'm sure anyone who knows what they're doing would have gotten this faster than I did) is to put one in Access Point mode and the other in Station mode. In those modes you give each unit the same SSID and password. You also check of WDS on each unit. After that, magic happens and you have a wireless link. That setup is just as if you're running a cable.I'm getting ~70mbps, but that's the limit of my ISP downlink. Once I have some local storage I can test the wireless link's actual throughput. But since I know the links throughput is higher than my ISP bandwidth, I'm not worried. Note that this is in ideal conditions. I have no idea what impact weather will have. The area also is virtually free of 5Ghz congestion. So I didn't need to use any of the frequency hopping features.I set both of my units up inside attic. They're both shooting through double pane windows that have no screens.

I worked well for my need. I just needed to extend the home wireless to a shed about 300ft away.The physical setup was easy, especially if you check out the mfr site and YouTube. The AirOS interface is pretty complicated. I have some networking experience so I was able to configure. Anyone who has very little knowledge may need to get support. Another great feature from Ubiquiti is the web based airLink tool. You can use it to find distance and throughput estimates. Additionally the tool also recommends a product to solve your design. The throughput was 150MB as advertised.I also bought two 50ft shielded, outdoor cables to plug into the radio. The distance I needed to go was pretty short. I would recommend this for a short PtP connection. Overall experience was good.

This has worked perfectly to extend a network between two buildings that were over 100 yards apart. It was easy to install and set up. Originally we had a Cat 5 cable running underground between the two buildings but kept loosing switches and routers when lighting storms would come through. This solved the problem.