Still confused setting up two houses

[xcoyote]

I've read and read and read, but something is still confusing me about setting up two houses with wifi connection.

Possibly going to use Ubiquiti loco M5 (or M2).
Assuming both houses are 100 meters apart with good line of site.

Primary house: would it be best to set up as access point or which mode?
2nd house: This is where I'm most confused. Which mode would I set the 2nd M5 as? Would (or should) I connect a router to this unit? Wifi needs to be spread over the whole house.

Right now, house 2 has a TP-Link wa5210g in universal repeater mode picking up a signal from a basic modem at primary house. The signal isn't that strong, but for use with basic wifi stuff, it does the job. No modem in 2nd house, just the 5210g.

Looking for more speed in the 2nd house as right now the speed is 1/10th of the ISP in primary house. So setting up two units seems to make more sense.

Any help would be much appreciated.

 

[bill001g]

The most stable way to run this is to use the ubiquiti device purely as a dumb bridge connection. You would put a router/ap in the second house. You need to think of the pair of ubiquiti devices as a ethernet cable. They should be completely transparent and you would configure your end equipment as if you really had a ethernet.

The devices sorta run like a repeater but they only talk to each other. It will just confuse you at this point to worry about how they actually get traffic between them. Just follow the instructions in the manual for a simple point to point bridge.

 

[xcoyote]

Thanks! I wasn't asking how they actually get traffic, (I actually don't care as long as they work). What I'm wanting to know is in which mode to set each up in. Both as an AP? Bridge? Wireless Bridge? Station? What? Hooking up a router at the end isn't an issue. Does this make sense?

 

[bill001g]

I am pretty sure you set it to bridge mode.

 

[bill001g]

It appears you can do this a couple ways I did it with much older software.

This is all pretty much documented in the airmax software manual. But if you are too lazy there is always youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__xzHnK6IVs