Ubiquiti UBIQUITI LBE-M5-23 UBIQUITI LBE-M5-23 (Open Box)

Update againAfter buying more Ubiqui devices since they were highly recommended by a friend of a friend, I decided to buy other devices for my home network. Today they decided to basically jam the network and prevent everything from working.If you can avoid these products, do so. They are questionable, sketchy to interact with and unreliable.Updating as I finally got it working, skip to the bottom for how to set this up because the instructions, website and other documentation aren't terribly helpful. I'm keeping this one star not for it's function, but by how absolutely stupid this thing has been to set up, how unhelpful the set up documentation is, how obtuse the phone app is to set up point to point and how many other people seem to have the same problem as I have.I have never had to try and hook up two like devices that were so insistent to not talking to one another in my life. And I had to hook up mixed devices for the military, fix bantam cables and a lot of cable making and set up for a lot of one off devices.I can't call myself an expert. I've handled Cisco devices, done a few hundred installs and device set ups with all kinds of military and civilian equipment, had to do a lot of cross patching but I'm a bit rusty on some of this stuff and this has told me I need a big refresher.I have reset these to factory default multiple times, followed the instructions and the app's scan and set up option and now I'm basically succumbing to youtube the depths of technical pages and youtube videos that blast obnoxious music spoken by someone I don't understand to try and get this to work. I now know far more about this device than I ever wanted to know.Here's been my story thus far.Get the boxes, great. The physical devices feel well made, light and like they should do their job. Thinking this is an established IT company I assumed plug and play features using the app. So like an idiot I physically set them up point to point to service a distant location and gets started.Remember that app and thinking these would be plug and play? Nope. The app turns them into a paperweight. I'm not joking. It'll auto config an IP and password and says it's sending a signal but that's a lie. The app is actually really impressive. connecting to this I can see a whole range of frequencies for potential connections.Want to know what it doesn't see? The other dish.Yes they are both broadcasting and they simply refuse to see it. Oh and the router at the distant end? Doesn't like talking to it with the WAN port. Cool. Okay so I gotta figure out what I'm doing wrong here. Instructions aren't helpful either as they direct me to do pretty much what the app does and turn it into an expensive connected paperweight.So I take them down, put them in a room, face one another, factory reset them both, access them to figure out what settings needs to be established to get them to see and talk to one another. It's amazing how many times these will just decide sop and need to be reset once again. Even if I wasn't configuring that device, it'll just decide to stay on but not let me connect or do anything but be a small heater.Why did I get this?Well I had a point to point set up using another device that worked pretty much out of the box. Plugged it in, quick set up, they talked, no problems. Except for some reason Zoom has issues with it. Configuration changes and trying to prioritize traffic didn't help with the constant cut outs so this was recommended by an far better IT guy than I am.Anyway here's hoping I can get these set up. I know I'm doing something wrong, the biggest complaint I have is that the directions an app don't seem to have any of the answers and looking online and finding similar people with similar problems feels pretty damning, especially since this comes so incredibly highly rated.Oh and just to add icing on the cake here, one of them claims to be sending and receiving 6mb of data from the distant end but the other end doesn't even display the signal or MAC.||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| HOW TO SET THIS UP |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||How to set this up, point to point with a home station sending data to a distant router as easy as possible. This should be good for you hooking up a shed or whatever from your house to somewhere on your property or distant point.1. If using a phone, Download the app.2. Unpack and set up the two devices, connect them on the same network so you can access them both for set up. I kid you not you can't connect to them using the app at the distant end if you have it set up right. That means no, you can't use the app to use it to align the dish except by connecting to the AP.3. Use the app to connect to one, set as AP (Access Point). This is going to be where it connects to the internet. Go to settings, name the SSID (I did a name then PtP as Point to Point as an identifier), changethe password to a nice, long sentence with numbers and whatever.4. Name the other one Station and set it in the config as station. Using the app, use the three dots on the top right to select Site Survey. This will show you a list of signals that update every second. I can't find a way to get the updates to slow down so be ready to watch what you want to connect to bounce around like a game of ping pong.5. Select the SSID named signal, select connect. Go down, double check to make sure the password updated, if not, type in the password. This will be the last time you will connect to this device for some reason. Why? I don't know. That's just how it is.6. Unplug and set these up how you will have them. Now you can connect the Station to the WAN port of the distant end router.Note: If you have to set up the station on the distant end, you can't connect through the WAN port of your router or you won't be able to access the device. Connect it to a port and go to step 4. Once done, disconnect from the LAN port and into the WAN port.That should do it. Good luck!