Ubiquiti NanoBeam ac Gen2 High-Performance airMAX ac Bridge (NBE-5AC-Gen2-US)

These NanoBeams worked perfectly for my application. I needed to get internet to my daughters house about 100 feet away. My Unifi Access points just could not penetrate the brick exterior of both houses. I mounted the NanoBeams inside the attic of both houses at the highest peak. Other than the wood wall and the vinyl siding on the exterior of the attic on both houses, I did have a clear LOS. I installed them and pointed them at each other visually. The signal strength is full and the throughput is over 300Mps. The download and upload speed is identical in both houses. I setup both NanoBeams to Static IP addresses outside of the DHCP range of my network. This makes it very easy to log into them when needed. The setup is relatively straight forward but I did get some tips from videos. The GEN2 is fairly new, so there are no videos specifically for these that are helpful. Most of the setup tips for older versions apply to these. This was a cost effective solution for me as I did not want to run Cat6 cable all the way and I already had an available POE network port that was convenient to the location that I wanted to mount these. It took about an hour to set up the NanoBeams and about an hour to mount on J-poles in the attics. I also Mounted and wired a Unifi Ap-Ac Pro in the other house. Everything worked perfectly the first time. I highly recommend this and all Ubiquiti Products that I have used.

I am NOT a network guru / tech but I have been setting up network hardware off and on for a couple years now for our small business. Ubiquiti makes great stuff and as we replace old hardware we almost always end up with their stuff for bang-for-your-buck reasons. This is not a product that comes setup, it is what you make of it. Don't buy it expecting to be linking your distant cousins 100 miles away to your internet through a forest of trees building etc. They say 10km + but I'd say if you want really good throughput stick with that sub 10km links. But if you do your research you'll be able to easily set these up and make great links out to the recommended range. Watch your fresnel as that is the number one issue people have with wireless bridges. The Wifi setup worked like a champ with my iphone. I've always set up previous versions with a wired connection to a computer but the wifi setup really is simple. 1) Plug in the device to a POE source (supplied) 2) Log into the wifi hot-spot it creates with the user name and pw provided on the inside of the box. 3) Open the app (see app store) setup each device (one as a AP and one as a Station) Heck, there's even a QR code you can scan that dang near sets it up for your. DO use Ubiquiti's link view app - Do a search for: UBNT LINK MAP *Amazon doesn't like actual links ;P and check your link before you buy any hardware. LOS (line of sight) isn't a laser beam for these type of devices so you'll need a larger clear path the farther you make your bridge. Get up and look down the actual path the signal will take... got a tree obscuring half of it, you'd better deal with the tree or get the radios up above it. If all else fails use the UBNT forums. They aren't going to spoon feed you but if you have any manner of technical skill you can setup a wireless bridge with these. I'm pushing 120Mbps received & 11Mbps upload almost 2 miles and I know there's room for improvement. Considering my ISP provides 200/12 I'd say it's not half bad.

I have been using wireless bridges for almost as long as 802.11b has been around. But usually, they have been access points, with some form of bridge functionality that has been tacked on as an afterthought -- often not terribly reliable, always a pain to set up (with terrible documentation on how to do so). I have gone through ~3 different models over the years. Then along comes Ubiqity with the NanoBeam. Super easy to set up, with a *nice* GUI accessible both via web browser, and from an iPad app. Separate management IP address, so the IP address under which you set it up need not be on the same network as the one you are bridging (great if for some reason you do have to reset and reconfigure the unit). It actually passes through the MAC addresses of the devices on the other side of the bridge, as opposed to mapping them all to the MAC address of the "slave' bridge device. Passes through VLAN tags. Comes with mounting hardware and power-over-ethernet. There's an app to help you align the directional antenna for best signal strength -- but rather than just displaying signal strength on your computer, it has a "beep" mode where the pitch of the tone indicates signal strength: great when you have to adjust the thing with your head stuck in a place where you cannot look at your computer. It's almost like someone there has actually *used* their software, and takes pride in it. As for performance, I get solid 400Mb/sec over a distance of ~50 meters -- devices mounted indoors, so they have to shoot through glass and plastic (skylight dome), and there's a medium-sied tree in the middle of the line of sight. No downtime yet, and it has a mode where it periodically pings an IP address, and resets itself if there's no response in some time -- haven't turned it on yet, but that seems like another useful guard against problems. Overall, this is the first wireless bridge where I am totally happy. It just works, it works well, and the company seems to take pride in its products. Almost unheard of!

After a year of struggling with Engenius garbage HW and firmware, I've shelved them for Ubiquiti Nanobeam's (nonexistent technical support, FW features that aren't implemented or don't behave correctly, unstable hardware (system resets several times a day, inability to log-in consistently and on-and-on.) There are several decent videos to watch BEFORE installation/setup. The in-built tools and diagnostics are all-pro. I can't comment on range but I have two units, line of sight at about 200 feet (home to pole barn) and at the lowest transmit power level (-4dBm) receive power is rock solid on both units at -48dBm with the antennas aligneed. Completely transparent to my network. I'm getting maximum AC performance through the pair (dashboard reports 655.2Mbps on both sides.) My only nit: I was a bit peaved that the walmount kit isn't included as a simple accessory. I used a 3-3/4" tapcon screw, through the mounting base and the units are super-tight. The walmount kit would have been more work and not looked nearly as clean in the end (I went into brick (house) and into metal/wood (polebarn) with the tapcon...perfect solution.) All in all, I regret messing around for a year with the Engenius junk...too many hours to count troubleshooting and they dipped well below my minimum support expectations (as in ZERO support.) The Ubuiquiti units outclass the Enstations in in every aspect. Time will tell on reliability but very pleased with installation, setup and performance out of the box.

I have two of these used to make a wireless bridge between the house and barn. The barn is about 700ft away and line of sight with no trees blocking it. I’m in the woods so not much in the line of wifi noise from other people. With most settings I can get a little over 300Mbps from these. They use 24V PoE but come with the injectors. You should use shielded outdoor rated cable with them and I believe the injectors have some Ethernet surge protection built in. The only reason I reduced a star is they could be faster but are limited by the CPU. Even though you can set the radio on them to custom bandwidths like 60Mhz wide, 80Mhz wide and it will connect with a theoretical much higher bandwidth, the CPU in the newer version can’t handle the throughput past around 330Mbps. I have one older version that was left over from another project and one new one. The newer version has two Ethernet ports on it but a slower CPU. The older one gets to maybe 70%CPU when the new one hits 100%. . It doesn’t matter which is the AP and which is the Bridge, the result is same. I’m running them at 40Mhz wide and it’s stable. It’s still plenty of bandwidth for my uses so I’m happy, it just could have been faster if they stayed with the old version.

I have a point-to-point link between my house and my mother-in-law's house. I use Nanobeam M5 radios for the link. One of them died and needed to be replaced. I purchased a NanoBeam AC to replace it. I had to update the firmware on the remaining M5 and change a couple of settings to get the link to come online, but once it did, things worked great. Installation went well with the downloadable app, but I eventually went back to the web GUI as I found it was easier to work with (app won't give you all the bells and whistles). The only issues that I take with the new NanoBeam AC Gen2 dish is the 1) All the LEDs are blue and 2) the LEDs are on the top side of the dish. If you mount it on a pole or tower, as a would guess most people will do, you will not be able to see the LEDs from the ground. On the older Nanobeam M5 dishes, the LEDs were visible from the ground. The LEDs on the Nanobeam M5 are also multicolored, red to green, and could give you an idea of what your signal was from just looking at the dish. The new NanoBeam AC dish has all blue LEDs, so you have to get close to the dish to see what the signal level is at. This is inconvenient, but not a deal breaker, and not enough to knock off a star. Overall it was a great purchase for the money, and I continue to be impressed with Ubiquiti's products.

These devices are bullet proof as long as you know what you are doing and install them correctly. Correct cabling "Cat6 Shielded" patch cables and make sure you ground them with the correct Ubiquity surge protectors. You also need to do a AP scan to detect what is running around your intended installation area. This way you know where to set the radios bands up for best performance in a saturated WiFi area. The people saying that these requiring 24V POE is a problem, don't know what the hell they are talking about, 24V POE is not a negative for this device and it the supplied POE injectors definitely goes more than 3 ft. I don't use the POE injectors unless I absolutely have to. Any Ubiquiti POE Switch can be configured to output 24V POE on individual ports and eliminate the injector all together. I have these running at distances of 500 to 2000 ft away from one another, with 6 IP video cameras from 4MP to 8MP, and streaming realtime to NVR's and these devices run 24-7 year round without a single issue. Even nasty weather down south fails to stop these from performing like a champ. The only thing that stops them from running are power outages. That is all. Highly recommended and very easy to manage, deploy, and to troubleshoot with Unifi controller software.

UPDATE: 10/2/2019 I purchased 5 of these a while ago (2 different clients) and they all had the "XC" firmware (hardware) installed (we had been utilizing UBNT hardware from years earlier (zero issues), these were purchased as an upgrade...) - JUNK / and the hardware is JUNK. RETURN THEM - you ONLY want the NEW "WA" firmware - I have had ZERO of these work consistently using that junk "XC" - it is TERRIBLE!! I have had ZERO problems with the new hardware / current firmware "WA" - RETURN anything with "XC" hardware!! more technical - the XC hardware/firmware is all about drops - every 20 minutes, drop - and what is REALLY annoying is that it shows it is connected the entire time... and you can utilize the web interface of the remote antenna - it will simply not work on that end (nothing comes out of the LAN (but the antenna itself does connect)), but it will indicate it does... but it doesn't. swapping them out with the new WA (hardware (so it comes with different firmware) - everything is PERFECT! - I just did a backup / restore of XC settings and imported them into the new WA - the only thing I had to do manually was re-do the handshake (MAC address update). what UBNT should have done is call the "WA" hardware (since it utilizes a different radio chip) GEN 3 as opposed to them simply changing the actual hardware mid model and calling it the exact same. FIRMWARE "WA": WOW!! These rock!! super easy to setup - super fast!! very cool - EXTREMELY CONSISTENT!!!!

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These are amazing - they just plain work. Configure them and away you go. Not super sensitive to alignment either.

ممتاز واعداداته سهلة وطبيعي يجي بدون اسلاك...كذا جاي من المصنع POEوهذا يشتغل يعني ما يحتاج واير كهرب تركبه حد السويتش وتمد له كيبل نيتورك فقط

Easy to setup works great used it to wifi between two buildings 500 feet apart

منتج ممتاز جدا سهل التركيب و الوزنيه و الاعداد و طبيعي يكون معدل فقد سرعه و لكن كان قليل