Testing a $40 Wireless Bridge

[@connclissmann6514]

Thanks for the video. I would love to see the performance at 1km.

[@norm_sueb122]

Agreed!!

[@Fred2-123]

I was expecting you to do a test with them far apart, not just 4 feet apart.

[@h_alkhalaf]

I was looking into these awhile ago, but when I saw the spec. sheet, it says 100mbps ports, so what is shown here is expected actually, 80mbps might seems okayish if you consider it's not a perfect setting. I ended up buying a Ubiquit NanoStation 5AC Loco, I have not deployed them yet (only set them up), but every review I've seen was positive on these units.

[@DairyNZ]

I've been using KuWfi units for the past 6 years. I repurposed a 4 year old set of the cheapest 2.4g KuWfi units for my remote relay control (on my channel), they go 500m at 85% signal strength. With my new network, I now run 5 bridge setups using cheap to more expensive KuWfi units. I can't recommend them enough. The main property has Starlink which is connected 1.5km to the second property, which is connected 400m to the third. With, multiple remote cameras in workshops and sheds. They are always paired out of the box, but I have found connecting multiple slave units to one master difficult on the cheaper units.

[@cjrocksu5942]

Thanks!

[@coding-logic]

I have these bridges deployed at my moms house/barn to run some cameras at the barn, had them for 1-2 years now and they have been going strong. Speeds are not fantastic but plenty to run a few cameras. They are about 500ft apart, aiming up a hill, through trees, im able to get around 10-15mbps. Could probably get them to go a bit faster if i aimed them better, but for 40$ they are actually usuable

[@philharris9631]

I have a set of those in use so that a neighbour across the road can have a Sky Mini box on my network. As has been said several times elsewhere - mine have a 100meg network interface and are supplied pre-paired but there is a version that has gigabit networking and it looks the same so it depends on which version you have as to what you can get as the max speed. For reliability - well, apart from a brief outage in signal on the first day that I had them installed (which I’ve never been able to work out the cause of) they’ve been absolutely rock solid for the last six months - I was expecting them to be absolute garbage but they’ve actually been surprisingly good.

[@MortenEghj]

When is the next Ghost Town video ready ? We are looking forward for the installation and further design

[@alliejr]

You made this WAY more confusing than it had to be. 😂

[@caboose2016]

Are you going to install these someplace and give a followup on longterm performance?

[@PaulSolomon]

And can you test a long distance, out to a garage or barn?

[@davidallen2211]

I think these were meant to be taken out of the box and turned on and just "work" No logins needed or even intended. They break the customer throws them away at this price point and buys a new pair.

[@aaron840]

What's happening with the Cerro Gordo project. It's been a while with no updates.

[@cbwoolley]

I’ve had these going to an outside pool house for over a year, supporting a camera and ap, and they are fine. Not motorway fast, but do a great job for the cash.

[@MichaelRose-k9e]

This video was incredibly helpful! Great content, super easy to consume. Beginner question here: I just bought these after watching your video with the intent to get signal out to my gate 80 yards away from my house network. I want the slave to broadcast a small wifi signal that I can use to hook up a bunch of smart devices (video doorbell, wifi gate opener, lights, etc). Do i need a full on wireless router coming out of the slave? or just simply a wireless access point? My guess is the latter as theres already a router upstream managing things? I really appreciate your help, brother! Blue Skies, Michael

[@jb4608s]

Wow that's quite a bang for your buck! Thanks for the test! I wonder what the speeds will be at 50 or 100 meters range? Did you do any range tests as well?

[@habibsoufi]

I was hoping to see a test of 1 or 2 km with those devices.

[@magicmanchloe]

Lmao 1:44 the luffy keychain?! What does that have to do with anything?!

[@G0TT3RFUNK3N]

Do a range test

[@Hoerli]

5:05 100Mbits Link-speed. So 80Mbits is okay

[@kenanderson7321]

What about the 5 vs the 2.4? Does it only do 2.4 between the two bridges and the 5 and 2.4 on the access point side for the wireless devices?

[@carlostavaresjr958]

Do these do vlan's or pass vlans from the access port on the switch?

[@nateburckhard8281]

What do 1 gig capable poe injectors pull off for speeds? Looks like the poe adapter is the bottle neck?

[@marcgallardo2970]

Does anyone know a model that can acutally support 500mbps when u do a test? I have less than 100mts apart between the two places. Thanks everyone

[@James_Knott]

Will you be using them to connect your villa to your mountain area? 🙂

[@gilaleman5889]

I have one of those cheap ones, but they have a 100mbs Ethernet ports

[@AUserCAAP]

I think I saw those on Amazon but didn't try it cause the ethernet speed was not gig. That would not use your full internet speed. Ports are fast ethernet limited to 100 mbps, which is fine for a remote camera but not for a remote office main internet.

[@alliejr]

10/100 Ethernet was the standard only a few years ago. Unless you’re transferring 4K video back and forth to remote site, it’s completely usable for common computing tasks.

[@AUserCAAP]

Slow

[@gerardlunow567]

I am making a ultimate mailbox with Aruino with Wife for LED lighting and two RSTP door bells. Small WiFi bridge is perfect.

[@mattatwar]

I'd be leery of stuff like this even if it works like are you participating some botnet or something?

[@turbo2ltr]

I'm in the market for a bridge to a detached garage. Price is tempting, but also don't want some random Chinese devices on my network.

[@ernstoud]

Is the link encrypted?

[@gary-gilbert]

Compare them to a TPLink product like TP-Link 5GHz N300 for $100

[@lifefromscratch2818]

Range is the biggest question mark.

[@teslacoiler]

Range of CPE is usually pretty good (if properly installed). But remember that the longer is the link, the lower shall be the channel width (i.e. less speed). 5km are probably obtainable, but you should expect something around 1-5 Mbps of speed!

[@einfelder8262]

One good thing is there is no gateway or DNS required so probably not a CCP spyware device. Good enough for non-critical use such as a link to a garage or barn.

[@ocdtechtalk]

Unrelated - I've used Ueevii with very little issues.

[@PatrickLangendoen]

300mbps is the wireless datarate. The actual speeds you supposed to get is about half of the datarate. Also you've set them up way too close for a good test. I guess they're meant to be hundreds of meters apart.

[@Fred2-123]

Price is back to $34.55 for the 2 pack.

[@yusuflimz]

GHCP 🤣Giga chad version of DHCP that accepts an IP and then changes it to something else

[@gary-gilbert]

What if you plugged your devices directly into the radio would you get any better speed? I wonder if those little power injectors are limited to 100 MB.

[@brandonreidy6989]

At the distance I would trust these….probably could just mesh two APs

[@webluke]

It looks like a rip-off of a Mikrotik PtP, a little work, the WebUI wasn't too bad. I could see a "security camera guy" cheeping out and buying these for a set of remote cameras and it working "good enough" to send 20-40Mbps video to a crap NVR.

[@trahezy]

The LAN of these is 100mbps

[@Ajicles]

Your interface is also limited to 100mb.

[@rodneycrosslin4405]

The one Piece keychain

[@StephenMatrese]

2:50 unless it’s a Mr Slave situation, someone needs to tell them that racist terms like that are not ok. The plastic just says M/S, so Main/Secondary Main ban also be primary if you want. I have been skipping up for a year since buying my house, my room is the “Main Bedroom”, I’ll get that yet (….mas… ok Google turn on main bedroom lights) IDE cables REALLY GOT ME used to this terminology, but my brother in law explained that it minimizes and normalizes their suffering.

[@jazzmusiccontinues1134]

Knew there’d be a virtue signaling hand wringer in the comments

[@Eternal_Tech]

The instructions that came with the kit stated "master" and "slave." He was just reading from these instructions. In addition, "master" and "slave" are not racist terms. The ancient Greeks and Romans kept slaves, and most of these slaves were probably the same race, white, as the masters. Using the terms "master" and "slave" in reference to technology has no relation to the evil institution of human slavery. Using these terms does nothing to minimize or normalize suffering. This is similar to the term, "kill switch," which is a mechanism to shut down or disable a device or program. If someone uses the term, "kill switch," in this context, it does not support the murder of people.

[@ST-pq4dx]

Lol Master and Slave terms have been in networking books forever. Should we also rename some (white, brown, black) colors because they are racist?

[@DMP2923]

You are not much of a tech guy are you?

[@theradiodragon2awo]

If anyone would've asked me to get them the cheapest pTp possible, china would be the last place where i'd go looking.... You can get older Rocket M5s with 2X2MIMO antennas for 10bucks on some second hand sites..... And i bet these pieces of crap have some malicious communication between it and a C2 server somewhere in China as most of these chinesse network devices do.

[@PixelatedError]

Just buy ubiquiti 5ac loco

[@dougle03]

Your top down camera looks like trash. Over exposed and not focused.. Beyond that, good video.. lol

[@garysamons9332]

Better watch it man….was hearing some terminology in this vid that i have not heard since all this PC craziness began…Master / Slave

[@Cookedgroup]

Bro why are you so damn confusing?

[@damd6792]

i would never trust these dumb chinese "Brands" on my network, so i feel better with ubiquiti ;)