Hi there,

I'm having trouble to get my CPE210 working in a new setup after a couple of months without using it.

 

The device worked properly in all modes the "last time" I played with the different configurations, being "Bridge" my previously selected configuration, with a distance of +/- 300m and working 24/7, outdoor, for around 5 months, with a good uptime % and connection stability .

 

 

Last week I moved my home office downstairs, and the signal from my (from ISP provided) router (a Sercomm fg284cd) doesn't have enough power to reach the room losing the connection randomly, so I decided to add the CPE210 to the setup.

 

Than started the Odyssey (already invested around 8-9 hours trying to config the cpe, and config and re-config the sercomm...)

 

The first setup I tried was the Setup I already know, the bridge mode, with a second SSID.

After a couple of attempts, I said my self, "ok, let's try the Client mode", making the laptop-cpe connection by lan wire...  Nothing.

 

I remembered the "static/dynamic issue" I had the first time I used this device, so I reconfigured my (sercomm) network to the .0.1 subnet/device-ip, dhcp server to the .0 subnet with ip .254 assignation for the CPE, and configuring the CPE on the same subnet in dynamic mode. I tried later a "real dynamic ip" for the CPE too.

 

Well, that was a step forward as a ping to the sercomm from the Pharos interface was possible, even to 8.8.8.8 worked, but not from the laptop, both directions.....

 

But that was all.

 

My laptop got access to the internet (apparently, because a webpage like google or speedtest.net loaded the basic layout, but no data, showing the "working label" for a long while) 1 time with a AP-dynamic setup directly connected to the Sercomm by wire.

 

Since that moment, I tried all possible configurations:
CPE Client/dynamic, laptop dynamic (getting sometimes a 169.x.x.x ip?)

CPE Client/static with dhcp server, laptop dynamic

CPE client/static withouth dhcp server, laptop static

CPE Bridge/dynamic,laptop dynamic...

and so on, reaching a ping sometimes to the sercomm router, and sometimes 8.8.8.8 too from the cpe, but never from the laptop to the sercomm router.
 

I did a couple of hard-resets on the CPE AND sercomm router...with same results.

 

I looked for FW updates, but the CPE has the last one.

 

I'm a software developer and sysadmin of my own LAMP VPS, so I have some knowledge about troubleshooting and settings, but I have no more ideas.

 

 

I noticed that 2 pins on the POE rj45 port at the "cpe adapter" are like... light sulphuretted (from the ambient humidity?? It went never wet nor outdoor. I have other TPLink products, like a Tapo camera, a LTE-SIM Router, a smart-plug...and never saw something like that).

 

I would appreciate all type of advices as my next option would be to overwrite the default firmware with the OpenWrt FW (as I bought the device a couple of years ago, I think) or after try the "testmode" (I read about it but never used it as 11db is and was always enough power to do what I want)