CPE510 v3 TX power

Tested them very solid to 5km (~3miles) and good signal to 10km (~6miles). TP-Link was announcing them to up to 15km (~9miles), but I did not made any test to that distance yet.

As for being happy... Yes, I prefer them to Ubnt devices when it comes to install AREDN (just need to upload the firmware through the Web GUI) and I must say that I now use almost only TP-Link products at home after being pissed by D-Link gear that was not lasting more than a year... To me they offer fair product quality and price. My actual Archer router is holding on for 3years of abuse!

There is also the fact that in Canada, Ubnt compatible devices are hard to find if you do not want to pay import & custom fees... so Amazon had plenty of TP-Link CPE device stock and ready to ship.

However I have just bought some Mikrotik hAP devices and I may soon check their other devices, as it seems promising too.

So far my 4 CPE510 are pole mounted and ready to deploy AREDN where and when it will be needed.

tplink advertises the max xmit power.  However, we find this is in the center channels.   At the low and high end channels, tplink reduces the power.  I'd speculate to ensure they don't exceed part 15 out of channel emissions.  Thus ch -2 or ch 185  at the low or high channels may be reduced from the max if using channel 6 or 149.   In some cases we could allow settings higher, but conservatively choose not to to ensure signal quality.

Joe AE6XE