Mikrotik Wireless Wire RBwAPG-60ad kit 60 GHz Wireless Link 1 Gbit Full Duplex

This thing works pretty well for my needs: throwing gigabit internet 30 feet across my yard to a shed. Worked through one of my windows, not the other. Beware if you cannot install outside, 60ghz will have a lot of trouble penetrating certain windows. Might consider a narrower band if you need to penetrate any surfaces. My setup is: ISP modem --> Google Nest router (with PoE adapter) --> Master unit --> Slave unit --> Google Nest router (with PoE adapter) --> computer. I'm pulling 850-900mbps on the computer and 650mbps on my wifi devices in the shed off an advertised 1gbps fiber connection. Pretty awesome technology. Install was easy once I wrapped my mind around it (I have no clue about networking). As for the devices themselves the setup was plug-and-play in my experience. No additional tweaking necessary once everything was plugged in and the devices were pointed at each other.

I pole-mounted them outside on the ground, facing each other. Setup was easy, pretty much "set it and forget it." They have been up about two days now and have been incredibly stable. I consistently get 800-980 Mbit throughput. These replaced a 5Ghz bridge that we were lucky to see 40 Mbit on a good day, and even down to single Mbit on a bad day. (Those were from another company) I highly recommend this Mikrotik bridge, it is fantastic. Update: 05-23-2019. Been using this for over a month now. Solid performance. Truly set it and forget it. Haven't needed to reboot, re-setup, or anything. Truly love it. Update 10-2019: We've had this about 7months now. It has worked perfectly, no reboots, no restarts, nothing. It has been running like a Timex and we consistently get 900+ Mbps throughput. Best purchase I ever made. HIGHLY RECOMMEND. Update 10-2022. Runs like a Timex. These have been outside in all kinds of weather, storms, rain, wind, thunderstorms, ice, snow, HEAVY rain, heatwave, and we have not had a single problem with them. I almost forget about them sometimes. I could not be more pleased with these devices. Update Aug 2025. These things run like a Swiss watch. I tell you, other than occasional updates, these are like the old Ronco infomercials. Just set it and forget it, they just work. Keep in mind these these things have been exposed to the elements since 2019. Heat, cold, rain, snow, wind, you name it. Not a problem.

This is such a great product. I have an office that is almost 400 foot away from my house. I have ran copper to the office but I have had issues with this twice. This wasn't really a distance issue but I have had animals dig the wire up and break the cable. I didn't want to dig a trench, place in conduit and run the cable again in 100 degree plus weather. I did some research and bought these after much research. I am not getting a full gig on the link but I average around 810 Mbps which is plenty for me and I have been ecstatic. Speeds are great and literally almost no latency (which was surprising). I also decided to just mount the units with a cupholder style magnet Master Magnetics RB50B3NX5 Magnetic Hook, Round Base Magnet Fastener with Bolt Chrome Plate, 2.04" Diameter, 1.25" Total Height, 35 Pounds, Silver (Pack of 5) that is working great. If anything changes I will come back and update the review but so far they have been a life saver and I am loving them.

We use these to bridge between our livestream cameras and our tech computer about 70ft away. That distance is nothing for this bridge but is too far for WiFi, especially with the high bandwidth needs of NDI (low latency lossless video) and interference from a few hundred phones. We even use it to connect a unify AP back to the router to expand the wifi coverage. I was worried that this would be too finicky to setup each week (we are a mobile church) but it's very forgiving. I've read that each end has about a 60 degree antenna which matches my experience. Just point them in the general direction of each other and you get a full speed connection. One end sits on the floor but it doesn't seem to have an issue with people walking by or anything. The only time I've seen it have connection issues was when we happen to put a speaker directly between the 2 devices. Moved one end over a foot and it connected fine.

Have used several of these units. They work out of the box except the firmware needs upgrading as soon as you get them. I changed the Password and my units would not connect. I finally had to bring them to a friend that works with Microtik stuff all the time. Not sure what he did but they worked with my IP address's. For normal use you don't need to change the IP address unless you want to access the GUI inside the unit's If not just plug in your cable and use them. the also work great for building to building links. In broadcast work I use them to connect the studio to transmitter buildings.

This is my review of the Wireless Wire. General info: I purchased this equipment after reading about it as I have my router on one side of an open concept living area and my computer area in a living room about 20 feet away (with a cut-out dividing wall in between that was a popular style in the 90’s). Due to the layout of the tv alcove, and both device along exterior insulated walls, and any wired Ethernet run between the two areas is impossible. I recently have been exploring both game streaming from the Xbox One X video game console, using an app called OneCast, and playing some Mac games remotely, using an app called Steam Link. Both recommend having the console/computer connected via Ethernet, for the best results. As I said before, my house layout made an Ethernet connection impossible. In addition, I wanted to move my fixed location devices off such of the 5ghz signal, leaving the bandwidth for mobile devices that could never be practically wired. First of all, before going further, we need to discuss the characteristics of these wireless wire devices. They use a 60 ghz signal, (802.11ad spec) which allows you to avoid having speed losses due to nearby routers, which is typical on the 2.4 and 5ghz WiFi bands where pretty much all current routers use. This 802.11ad spec is also higher performance than the 802.11ac (WiFi 5), so it natively is faster anyway. The 60 ghz signal band itself is great, with one big downside. The radio waves in this range do not like to go through walls, people, or other obstacles. This is a very important concept, which could limit the usefulness of this system for some people. Physical Setup: First of all, let me tell you about mounting the devices. The box contained two stands. My first thought was that I would use that and just put them on a high shelf. Unfortunately, the stands are absolute garbage! Both stands had plastic tabs broke when trying to install them, and the tiny plastic pieces can’t be glued back together. The stands then could not hold the wireless wire devices upright. They are next to useless, total junk. The wireless wire box included a template and two wall bracket for wall brackets for either using a pole mount, or a direct wall mount. But again, remember how I said that the 60ghz signal is line of site? Using the wall mounts as designed (flat on a wall) won’t let you actually aim them at each other for the best signal. I conducted some tests, and discovered that you need at least one of the wireless wire boxes facing the other one for the best signal. (They did even work pointing both units completely away from each other, although I did notice a loss of speed as detailed below.) So, with these mounting/line of sight issues, here is how I mounted them. (I will try to upload some pictures.) I used stick-on cable channel (to avoid having to run the Ethernet cable directly into fiberglass insulated walls. I then purchases some cheap third party security camera mounts. They were designed for the Arlo 2 security camera system I think.). To avoid people walking around the house and unintentionally blocking the signal, I placed both wireless wire units and Arlo mounts high on the wall, well above the normal height of a person. Link to mounts on amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B078Y41XJ6/ The Arlo mounts end with a standard 1/4” 20 course thread, (same as used for camera tripods). I went to an orange themed hardware store and picked some L shaped mending brackets, and enlarged one of the holes slightly with a 1/4” drill bit. I then attached the included wireless wire brackets to the angled mending brackets using two #6 machine screws, with washer and a nut, using some per existing holes. (I used a tapered head, if the head is two tall they might not allow the wireless wire to mount.) For the 1/4” Arlo mount end of the angled mending plate, I simply used 1 1/4” 20 thread nut at the bottom, placed the angled bracket on it (after enlarging the hole slightly), then put another 1/4” nut on the top, and tightened them down to “sandwich” the bracket. Using this system allowed me to aim the devices at each other. There is still a segment of the cut out wall in the way, but the openings were good enough it didn’t matter. The aiming really was forgiving, just generally pointing them at each other worked fine, no need to get the units precisely facing each other. Even if I aimed one wireless wire at the other one, and the other unit in the opposite direction, the spies measured made no difference. They should have included a standard 1/4” threaded mount on the device, allowing the use of standard wall bracket solutions vs having to modify a mounting system. It’s a missed opportunity in my opinion. Network Setup: I have the two wireless wire devices attached to an airport time capsule router (last gen produced), and split the Ethernet into multiple points using a switch on the receiving end. I am powering them using the Power over Ethernet adapters to provide a single cord running to and from them. The box included two power of Ethernet converters, this allows you to hook up the power to the Ethernet plug nearest your router/switch, allowing you to avoid having to run both Ethernet and power wires to/from the units themselves. Software/Firmware: The wireless wire devices included a username and password for each device (master and slave, but they are interchangeable.). The problem I had is that I was unable to actually log into them! I was unable to get my iMac to show a login screen by typing the included IP address into a web browser, or using a parallels windows 10 copy of the setup exe app. (The windows app simply couldn’t find the devices.) There is an iOS app that I discovered I installed on both and iPad & iPhone, and it discover the units. Unfortunately, I still could not login as the password or username included on the slips of paper in the unit were wrong! To date, I have not been able to update the firmware from whatever they shipped with, as I didn’t want to risk breaking the units during a reset procedure. (It’s a good thing they worked great out of the box!) Speed: Using an internal speed test tool (iNST & iNST server for tvOS/iOS & network speed tester on the macOS app store), with the boxes aimed at each other, I am now getting around 890 Mbit/s speeds (112 MB/s) vs using the native 5g Wi-Fi AC which produced 610 Mbit/s speeds (77 MB/s). (The average speeds fluctuated much more than with the Wireless Wire as well.) Running a speed test using ethernet to ethernet (through a netgeer network bridge) gave me a very slight speed advantage (902 Mbit/s vs 890 Mbit/s), so basically these are running a “wired” speeds on my network even if they are wireless. For reference, using Wifi Explorer lite (macOS App Store) I can see 30 routers in the 5ghz wifi band, although it looks like my router is the only one on the 132 channel. This is a residential area as well, when I used 5ghz wifi in a condo or other apartment style buildings it was such slower than my current 5ghz network. As far as I could tell, the wireless wire really didn’t add any noticeable lag over a wired connection. While testing, I attempted various things such as pointing the devices away from each other, and using my body/objects to mask the antennas from each other. In the worse cases I would get roughly 750 speed during my tests. In addition, if I stood in front of the device, and tried to mask the antennas with an object, or my body, it had about the same effect of reducing the speed to the 750 level. So even masked, they performed better than using native 802.11AC Wi-Fi system. Summery, For me, after the install they worked great, they are truly a wireless wire. These devices downside however include: junk plastic stands that break when trying to use them, shipped with the wrong passwords and can’t be logged into, and are subject to the inherent limitations of 60 ghz signal properties.

Awesome Product. I have a link going about 75 feet and these give a constant 1GBPS actual throughput. Rain has not affected them at this distance.

Worked inside my office at 5 feet. Mounted on my house and office about 250 feet apart and it worked for 30 minutes maybe. Took them off the house and office and took back to my office to try and reconnect to one another. They never did.