Ubiquiti NetworksairMAX 5 GHz PowerBeam ac, PBE-5AC-620 (CPE with 29 dBi antenna, 450+ Mbps)

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Did a 3.2 mile link for my parents, they live out in the country and we had to buy two DSL lines from Frontier just to get enough speed. Bought a Peplink 50 load balancing 5 WAN router and plugged this into WAN 3. I could have got the smaller units, but I wanted the most gain and strongest signal. I set it to 5.7-5.8x at Max power, and without even aiming it got a low signal connection. After aiming got the signal up to about -0.52 and the speed test was doing about 170mbit each way. So plugged the other end into my friends cableone.net connection which is now running at 75/5mbit and thanks to the PepLink 50 we have 3 Wan connections that load balance wonderfully. We transmit 3mbit of ip camera data upstream constantly, and 5-10mbit down. Which cableone doesn't like too much with their totally lame 300 400 500GB/mo limits depending on package, but we work it out to not go over on the 3rd month so they don't make us upgrade. Sure the smaller dishes are cheaper, but just spend the extra $100 and get yourself the strongest signal possible.One problem, they still haven't released the firmware to let these operate in the full 5ghz spectrum. You are stuck at 5.7+ghz for quite a while. Which by the way, if you aim anywhere near a WISP that is using the 5.7-5.8 band, you can litterally destroy them completely. So be curtius and run scans for other devices running in that range. Once Ubiquiti releases the firmware allowing full 5ghz spectrum use you can stay off their channels, but will have WAY lower power levels - thus throughput - thus range. On my setup I used a full 80mhz wide AC channel, so getting around 300-350mbit total (combined both ways) is pretty sweet. Once lame Cableone grows up and bumps their packages up I look forward to a 200mbit connection

These things are truly enormous. I was upgrading a PBE-M5-400 and didn't really grasp how much bigger the 620mm dish. With the ISO-BEAM-620 and PAK-620 kit, the whole thing is pretty heavy so I'm going to have to upgrade my mast too. I'm happy with this radio but it really looks like a professional communications dish.That all said, when you first get it, it has AirOS 7.0 so you have to upgrade to the AirOS 7.1-rc release and then you upgrade to AirOS 7.2. There is no direct upgrade path from 7.0 to 7.2.Once you get it all upgraded, check out the new AirView functionality. You can run Airview while you have an established wireless connection whereas in older models these two things were mutually exclusive. I had just the feedhorn sitting on my desk and I could clearly see a 125W EIRP signal from 5 miles away.One word of caution. This radio can go to the maximum Part15 legal limit of 200W EIRP in the 5GHz band for PTP connections. If you do this in your house, there is a significant danger from EM radiation. Be careful with this.

I went from a Nanobeam Ac 19Dbi 5Ghz ~2 lbs to this PBE-5AC-620 PowerBeam AC, this honker is a whopping 14.11 lbs....The signal on this thing is very good now. My estimated throughput changed from ~5 Mbps to where it is now at about 50-90 Mbps.I needed to make a 6.1 km link and it does this perfectly!The Ogden area where I live is one of the more noisy places for WISP's. I hear them complaining all the time about how hard it is to get good signals, it's working great in this noisy environment!

200 Mbps up and down 3.5 miles through a couple trees? Yep. Can’t complain. Obviously your mileage will vary when going through trees.