Buy Cheap, Buy Twice - Wavlink 300Mbps Outdoor WAP

Love the festive spin on the manscaping ad

When I run WiFi to someone's barn, if the barn has power, I just run a point to point link. Get a cheap second router that will run in client mode. Get 2x cheap/free parabolic reflectors (satellite tv dishes aren't tuned for 2.4GHz, but they do usually work.) Attach one dish on each building, pointing at each other. replace one of the router antennae with a pigtail that goes up to the dish focal point. I've easily gotten +500ft (+180m) point-to-point links this way. And it can be almost free depending on where you source your hardware.

The metal gutter may be detuning the antennas. Try mounting it on a piece of wood.

Wait...did you strap it directly to a huge hunk of metal right next to the antennas and not expect WIFI degradation? Hmm...I wonder if it does a search for wifi signal so it doesn't crosstalk with other channels Optimum install would be on the top of an old TV pushup pole ABOVE the roofline...the higher the signal and more line of site = better signal propagation

My company tried to see if these were useable... We were sadly disappointed. Don't try factory resetting it btw, you'll end up with it in ap mode but still broadcasting dhcp. Also, I love how if you go to adjust the signal strength, full signal is the image of a pregnant woman.

my oldest ubiquity 2.4ghz AP i installed in the shed in my back yard gives me like 150' range easily. worth the money spent. I have newer 5ghz unifi access points around the house and also well worth every bit of the money.

i would like to see this test repeated without the antennas being so close to the metal gutter, and the two antennas at 90 degrees to eachother. the reason for the 90 deg angle is so that the two antennas dont overrwhelm and desensitise eachother. diversity reception/transmission should work a lot better, to be thorough, an analysis of the antennas on some cheap VNA like the nanoVNA would be also a useful indicattion if they are actually any good,

Metal guttet piper can also block or scadder Wireless signals if a wireless device is attached to it. Another this if your wireless is in back of the house outside and you are in front of the house is can lower the speed of the wireless device being it needs to go through and around the house to get to it. I know this much from wireless testing my-self.

I've deployed 8 tp-link N300 LR's across 5 different locations, and they been friggin stellar - surviving torrential downpours, 112 degree heat, all while never encountering a single issue with them, I cant see myself ever using something else (as long as theres no high bandwidth requirement). Used to get them for 37 bucks, probably a little more these days, but worth it - I've got two of these as point to point at my parents place just under a half mile apart, and get about 120Mbps between the two. I couldnt believe it tbh... but we now have 4 video feeds streaming from the barn to the house a half mile away, and I cant argue with that!

I'm normally an ad skipper, but I do not skip Craft's Manscaped ads, as a personal rule.

I'm running Ubiquiti UAP-MeshACs in outdoor scenarios and they're great. 80-100€ usually. TP-Link also offers some equipment in multiple product lines. The Omada ones are a good alternative. If a directional antenna is fine TP-Links CPEs and Ubiquitis Nanostations are awesome for around 50€.

As a professional installer I need to point out that the antennas should be in a Y configuration. They are distorting each other right now :-).

The placement is bad. Metal gutter, metal overhang, and low. I used to run a wisp (gwisp) and we did testing and could get connections up to 35 miles. Not feet... Here is a few things to note. Pre 2007 hardware has higher power, the .gov limited the power by 90% due to the uptake and the wave noise... (Too many users , too few bands (3)). One of my faves was the Cisco AP's you attach a antenna cable and outdoors antenna. I still have some, the antenna cable has a 4cm dia. And a 8mm2 core. This was then attached to the ap and power dialed in. I also made antennas. (They're easy to make) and ran tests and found that it worked. However the goal back then was a 11mb trans rate. With a backhaul of 150mb (unhread of speeds back then) Antenna, are beasts to deal with, they can cancel themselves, be untunned and cause more problems than they resolve. A cheap, quick and easy WiFi would be to use the ESP32, and get some firmware. At £6 a ap. You can go out there and make a mesh, however the quality is not uniform in the WiFi power. Apparently they have resolved the issue on the new esp. but as they are tiny,a solar powered one works and they fit under light data. I think the price and look is great, however with problems like power signals, then it's not all good. It's a to good to be true. Try again moving the antenna. And bunny those antenna. And move of off of the metal and from the over hang. Don't forget the signal reflects and this cancels or confuses adding to drops and bad packets as well as ping times. And of hand, I think anywhere between the antenna poles is going to be very bad. As a side note I had a ap that was really bad when you were close to it and fantastic far away Try WiFi analysis app. That will show you where signals are best and there are other apps that you can use to plot a site. Obviously check the thing works first lol.

Easily the best landscape commercial I think I've seen in a very very long time lol

The ad at the beginning... You nailed it buddy. I think that's the only entertaining product placement I've seen on a channel that isn't Rich Rebuilds.

Can we please get a booting over the network video?

I expect that radio interference from all the other wireless equipment in your neighbourhood is stifling the data transmission of this device. A remote farm that is situated distant from neighbouring property would alleviate that problem. Back in the early days of wifi I was using 802.11a and 802.11b at distances of 300m from my home, admittedly at not particularly fast speeds, but there was no interference from neighbours (i.e. No one had smart phones with wifi back then). EDIT: Turn off your Ubiquiti kit and try again. Heh.

last time my cat got outside it was raining... he was an outdoor WAP. hapve a happy merry and a merry happy!

A plug will definitely fit through the "gasket" at the bottom. If you just pop the gasket out, you will see that the hole in it has a slit over to the side so that you can just slide the gasket/foam over your cord, even if it has an existing plug already on the end of it. (9:00)

I helped my father-in-law set one of these up to give additional coverage for his backyard shed and motorhome parking pad. It works OK for those uses for him.