Ubiquiti LBE-5AC-GEN2-US LiteBeam Wireless Bridge 100Mb LAN,GigE, AirMax AC, White

I'm using a pair of these as a wireless bridge between my barn and home. These are very sturdy and work flawlessly. I get about 300 Mbps up/down even though my home is interfering with the signal.

These things are amazing! I ran 180ft of direct-burial Cat6 into the woods behind my current house and about 20ft up a tree. We just built a new house on the same property about a ¼ mile away up a hill surrounded by woods. I plugged the 1st LiteBeam into the router at the bottom house, then mounted it in the tree by screwing it to a 2x4 and pipe clamping that to the tree. I plugged the 2nd LiteBeam into the router at our new house on top of the hill (see photo) and ran 60ft of Cat6 out to our power pole. The mount can be screwed into a wood pole with a normal drywall screw. I just lined each of them up by eye, I do not have line of sight though. There are fully bloomed trees between them and they are around 800ft apart. I set the bottom to Station and the top one to AP via the app, even without fine tuning the alignment via app (which is super cool by the way) they have 600Mbps transfer between them and have haven’t dropped signal 1 time in 10 days. I tried this before with 2 omnidirectional repeaters and it dropped connection hourly or more. These LiteBeams are SO good, I can’t believe they are so cheap!

Preface: This review is by no means a guarantee that you will have the same results... but I established a ROCK-SOLID 655mbps link (actual sustained throughput >400mbps!) through a bunch of trees with ZERO radio interruptions! Ping is *excellent*: <1ms over the link.Before I bought these, I struggled to find much information or testimony from people who'd used these to establish a link through trees. In fact, nearly everyone I'd talked to (despite knowing the relatively short distance) insisted I wouldn't be able to establish a 5GHz link through trees. I figured the narrow beam pattern of these had a good chance at proving them wrong.. and for the price - I figured they were worth a try.The hardware / setup: 2x LBE-5AC-GEN2 devices. One acting as "AP" and the other acting as "Station". Distance spanned is only ~400 feet, but it's blasting right through a bunch of trees.The experience: Setup of these devices will likely prove tricky for anyone not familiar with IT. The built in Management Radio and Android/iOS "UMobile" app - once you figure it out - make the setup process very manageable (and frankly - frickin cool). I'd recommend configuring/syncing your setup before mounting (though it's not absolutely necessary).The mobile app has a lot of nice features - most notably an aiming utility that tones intermittently to help indicate when you're getting the best signal. It also has a discovery, survey, ping/traceroute/point to point speed test utility.. and more.Radio configuration: Took quite a bit of fiddling around, but ultimately I found its (mostly) best to let these things work their own magic. Ubiquiti has put a very impressive (and quite slick/visually appealing) set of tools and features into the AirOS software. Use AirMagic to identify a low-utilization part of the spectrum (preferably a DFS capable range), set your (Settings -> Wireless -> Advanced) "Target Signal" to a desired level (I target -59dBm), and tick on "Automatic Power Control" to have the devices automatically manage your transmit power depending on environmental situations (it will crank up transmit power in rain or snow to maintain your link quality). Beyond that - there's very little needed to get amazing performance out of these.Conclusion: My home internet access has been completely reliant on these devices for nearly 2 months. I haven't had so much as a hiccup. Yes, these perform best with a clear line of sight, but they are fully capable of punching through some trees over short distances! Since the leaves fell off the trees, these Litebeams have adjusted their transmit power as low as they can and signal quality is still staying around -52 dBm which is SUPERB.Ubiquiti puts out some amazing stuff, and if you need to establish a long-range PtP wireless setup - you came to the right place.PS: Nanobeams are smaller/more subtle, though with a wider beam width - intended for 'shorter' distances (still capable of many km). Powerbeams are a step up from these Litebeams and can function out beyond 30km!

Configuring a shed as an office, with the shed about 600 feet from my home's router (1GB fiber from our ISP). Would have required a lot of trenching thru obstructed terrain to put in a fiber line to the shed. Instead, I mounted one of these on a post, about 200 feet from the shed, fed by a buried, shielded cat6 cable back to the POE injector and network switch in the shed. The a TPLink Wifi 6 router is set up as an access point at the shed, providing wireless coverage. At the ISP router side, the second unit is mounted on the side of the house.I aligned the dishes only by eyeball, across the 400 foot gap. The gap is not 100% clear. There are some minor obstructions within a foot or two of direct line of site. Might be a bit more obstructed as trees start to bloom.I've only lightly tested so far, but wireless connections are providing 100Mbps up and down, which is probably as fast as the TPLink Wifi router and my older laptop can manage. I will follow up with a test via the network switch from the shed side, but I am expecting something between 200 and 400Mbps, based on other reviewers reports. Ping times are impressive. Sitting here at a hard wired desktop on the fiber router side, I can ping the distance LiteBeam unit and get an average response of 3ms.Unless I see degraded performance during weather or during peak of leaf cover, I may not even bother with further tuning.Setup was pretty easy. Watched one of the many Youtube videos, never even bothered with the phone app. Just connected to the Litebeams via browser/IP address, completed the needed settings, and was immediately rewarded with a working link. I have considerable networking experience: I recommend newbies follow the more conventional instructions or watch more videos.EDIT: Finally got around to doing some tuning. Switching to a frequency with lower noise increased the throughput to 225mbps. Really impressed with these and thinking about adding more.

I use a pair of these to get internet to my shop 200' away from my house and they work great. I have never used Ubiquiti products before but found them easy to setup by following online instructions. I have them on the lowest radio settings since I am not transmitting that far and they never miss a beat and I just pointed them in the general direction and didn't really aim them precisely yet. I tested the power usage of them and found they use about half the power of a standard router on their lowest radio setting which is about 10 cents every 12 days. (at 10 cent a kwh) Not worth shutting them off when they aren't being used at night. I would use again.