Engenius Smart Wizard

The EnGenius Mesh Smart Router ESR530 ($129.99 for the two-pack) is a mesh Wi-Fi system that offers convenient features including robust parental controls, one-touch device priority (QoS),.

I love this thing, I get a solid 95 Mbps, when a normal wifi dongle was getting 10 Mbps. I use it to connect to a wireless access point normal devices have a hard time connecting to that is about 100 ft. So you can just get one of these, and use it to connect to the wifi access point you already have. I have one computer and another wireless access point connected to my bridge. I have tested connecting 3 other devices to the access point attached to the bridge with no issues.I also found the documentation and setup to be completely fine. This is not marketed as a consumer device, so it has a lot of advanced features that might be confusing. For my use case, I used the 'Client Bridge' mode.

One non-intuitive thing in the setup, is that once you have made the changes in the web based admin, you have to as a separate step save the changes, so make sure to do that.One correction about the description, the 2 ethernet ports on the device are just 100 Mbps, not gigabit as the description of this item says. The item description on the physical box actually describes the ports as 100 Mbps. These things are virtually impossible to set up. I bought three units and hired an IT professional to set them up. After seven hours trying to set up the first two, he gave up. After two more visits, he finally got two of them working. The third would never work.

What is the problem, other than the lack of any preconfiguration and poor instructions? The absolute lack of technical support from EnGenius. Please understand before you buy an EnGenius product: there is NO live tech support available. There is not even a number that you or your IT professional can call. You have to send an email to technical support and they will respond – between three and seven days later. When they do respond, expect a one-sentence response such as “Try rebooting the unit”.

I get the impression that EnGenius technical support has simply given up on this product line. They know that the devices cannot be made to function, so they don’t want to spend their time trying to help. Do not buy any product in this line, or you will be sorry.

Stick with a reputable brand that has real tech support. These things are virtually impossible to set up. I bought three units and hired an IT professional to set them up. After seven hours trying to set up the first two, he gave up. After two more visits, he finally got two of them working. The third would never work. What is the problem, other than the lack of any preconfiguration and poor instructions?

The absolute lack of technical support from EnGenius. Please understand before you buy an EnGenius product: there is NO live tech support available. There is not even a number that you or your IT professional can call.

You have to send an email to technical support and they will respond – between three and seven days later. When they do respond, expect a one-sentence response such as “Try rebooting the unit”. I get the impression that EnGenius technical support has simply given up on this product line. They know that the devices cannot be made to function, so they don’t want to spend their time trying to help. Do not buy any product in this line, or you will be sorry. Stick with a reputable brand that has real tech support.

Can't get it to work period. I've got 30 years of IT experience I could not get them to work. I've got other antennas with this company (few thousand dollars worth) won't be buying anymore. Here's why: this applies to these and others we have.In general we've found this to be true about this companies antenna's1. Tech support doesn't exist. No such thing. You buy you hope.

Canon mf4700 driver. That's the only tech support you'll get.2. Not reliable. Antenna have decent spec's but they don't last. The build quality on the high end ones aren't bad, low end antennas - junk.

Typical stuff you'd find coming out of Shenzhen.3. When they do work, they aren't that good, weak signal even if your kissing the dam thing just just terrible. For playing games and silly home stuff, they're ok. Real world work like in an industrial environment - you'd be crazy to rely on them.4. Tech support - what tech support5. Manual, hilarious - funnier then a car full of clowns.For these antennas, they aren't worth a dam.

Yes we can connect to each one and set them up thats about it. Can't get them to connect (about 1500ft) manual totally useless for WDS bridging on align etc. Since we've bought these a few months ago, we can't return them. I'll have the guys pull them down from the poles and use them as freezbies during lunch time. Some people have gotten them to work, and many other not.

So it has to be a QC issue. It's all about reliability, We'll go with Cisco instead for all our future purchases. At least they stand behind their offerings, this company like so many Chinese tech companies not worth doing business with. I love this thing, I get a solid 95 Mbps, when a normal wifi dongle was getting 10 Mbps. I use it to connect to a wireless access point normal devices have a hard time connecting to that is about 100 ft. So you can just get one of these, and use it to connect to the wifi access point you already have. I have one computer and another wireless access point connected to my bridge.

I have tested connecting 3 other devices to the access point attached to the bridge with no issues.I also found the documentation and setup to be completely fine. This is not marketed as a consumer device, so it has a lot of advanced features that might be confusing. For my use case, I used the 'Client Bridge' mode.

One non-intuitive thing in the setup, is that once you have made the changes in the web based admin, you have to as a separate step save the changes, so make sure to do that.One correction about the description, the 2 ethernet ports on the device are just 100 Mbps, not gigabit as the description of this item says. The item description on the physical box actually describes the ports as 100 Mbps. Like.WOW!Let me start with the big con: If you are NOT an IT Specialist or exceptionally savvy, you WILL NEED to call EnGenius Tech support to walk you through the set up.

There was NO wait time, they answered immediately, no transfers and holds, and the tech support agent was very thorough. It took about 20 - 30 minutes, including the time to install the updates.I'm just BLOWN away at how well these things work.Mounting these is easy. Ridiculously easy. This was my first time using PoE, and it's a breeze. I have one EnStation installed on the corner of my house and another on a shed about 200 meters away.

I purchased these alongside one EnGenius Bullet camera which I mounted onto the remote shed and connected to the Enstation. Flawless performance.So I bought another one to see if it could still handle the data load.

And then I bought another one. And I'm just floored. The remote EnStation is now feeding 3 cameras and it's as if they are all plugged into my modem. I don't know HOW this thing works, but its remarkable. With these working, I can still play PlayStation 4 online and stream through Roku without interruption.

Got the full 866mps link between my house and rental property across the street. I know it's probably obvious to some but wasn't sure which mode to put each bridge device in.

Finally figured it out after seeing a 1 min commercial for it from the mfg. The side with internet is in access point mode and the other side is station mode. After I figured that out I was golden. It's rock solid and mounts great. Love the pie injectors so I only have to route one cable up to it.Update.OK so I spoke to soon. It wasn't that long into using these that my internet at the target house was unstable. Also uploading as well as QoS with VOIP and Zoom calls from the remote home was very poor.

I tried calling tech Support during business hours and no answer, had to leave a voicemail. No one ever called me back. Tried opening a ticket online as that's the key to tech support. Got a reply back within a about six hours and he said to turn of Enjet. OK that's not cool. I that I was paying more for this Enjet feature but he said it's new and buggy and to run it in WDS AP and station mode with Enjet turned off.

Tried that with no avail getting the same issues. Finally I cam across a YouTube video of a guy that shows how to set both units in WDS Bridge mode. Once I did that and got the link it's been like magic. Video calls, IP Phone calls, 4K video streams, all of it works good at the remote house. I'm taking a star away since Enjet is useless to me and appears to be marketing hype and there is not good instructions on how to set these up the right way the first time. I upgraded to these from the Engenius ENS500 combo that I had been using for about a year and a half. These work amazing and speeds are as good as advertised.

I am constantly getting about 800 Mbps throughput at a distance of about 400 feet outdoors. The ability to swivel these to point them in a specific direction is very handy. Setup is easy for anyone with some IT experience. If you are not savvy with tech I HIGHLY recommend following a how-to video online.

I can't comment on reliability as I have only had them a couple of weeks but the network has been extremely reliable (uptime of 10 days now with no issues). I have a horse boarding business and reached out to Engenius for a WIFI system and was contacted within 24 hours by a business account executive. After a couple emails and phone calls, John recommended the two pack Enstation AC bridge.

I bought a camera elsewhere and set out to hook it all up. I placed the camera in a horse stall to monitor a pregnant horse and used the two ACs as a bridge back to my cable router. Unless you have a junior IT badge, this is not a project for entry level type setup and I ran into a bunch of problems. The camera is a GW Security 5 MP POE and I found I needed to call tech support for both devices.

Both companies are located in CA and I pretty quickly got human beings on the phone that spoke with a US accent. The GW tech logged into my computer remotely and hooked me up real quick. The Engenius tech spent well over 2 hours with me walking through all the necessary tweaks. He even did his best to ensure the camera and the Engenius were talking to each other even though he knew nothing about the camera. A common complaint I read about in my research of cameras was the instructions were vague. That is true here, but with both companies, tech support was readily available.

If I had anything negative to say about Engenius it would be that policy prohibits techs from logging in remotely. I understand the logic, but if he could have logged in, we would have been done in about 15 minutes.

They need to weight the security concerns versus the efficient use of phone time. When I expand my system, I will be going back to these companies to buy their products. I love these products so far and the companies seem to be outstanding examples of good product and good customer support in the USA. The physical installation and setup in WDS Bridge mode was easy.

Added the adjacent MAC address to each unit, configured AES encryption and setup 802.11 ac, 80 MHz and other settings. However, the internal speed test only registers a maximum speed of 130 Mbps.

From a laptop on the remote side of the bridge, speedtest.net only registers about 20 Mbps. For reference, from the main gateway AP, I get a solid 50 Mbps every-time.

My units are only 275 ft separated with zero obstructions. I have raised and lowered the transmit power, distance and data rate and received the same results. I really expected to get something north of 500 Mbps given the short distance and 802.11 AC 5 GHz rating. This thing took a long time to install.

If I wasn’t an IT guy I would not have figured it out where there are virtually no instructions. I installed it and the speed tests look great, but the signal keeps stalling. I ran it with cat-6 cable and the dishes are setup as wds wireless bridges 300 ft apart.

I’m going to try to work with these things but may try to return if I can’t get it to stop dropping the signal. Update, I tried everything else I could think of and could not get this to work in WDS bridge mode. It says it has a good connection, but keeps dropping the signal. After approximately 16 hours of work trying to get these things to work for me, I’m returning them.

I really wish these worked. Maybe you’ll have better luck than me. I ordered a Ubiquiti NanoBeam AC 5G and that one took 2 hours to setup and is working great. So far, these are impossible to set up. I bought these to replace a wireless bridge I've been using as a failover. You might think this would be pretty simple to set up; however, if you search 'failover' on their support website, nothing comes up.

It seems that no one has ever used these for this purpose. At any rate, you can set the IP address manually - it doesn't save. You can set the SSID and password manually - it doesn't save.

There's no way within their software to determine if they are actually connected. I've done many packet and trace tests - all failed. I've tried every different mode to no avail.Most significantly, there's no support phone number on the website. I'm going to post something in the support forum and see if someone from the company responds, but, as of now, these will likely be returned.

How do I set up the EnMesh Whole Home Wi-Fi system?

An EMR3000 FAQ.

It is easy to setup. First, you will need an Android^TM or iOS
device and a data connection. You will need to download the EnGenius
EnMesh^TM Mobile App from the Apple App Store® or Google
Play^TM store to install your EnMesh network in minutes. The
EnMesh app will walk you through the network setup process in your first
use.

Before getting started
Check that your equipment is all in the box.
– Mesh Router Pod(s)
– Power Adapter(s)
– Ethernet Cable

Step 1: Download the EnMesh App for iOS or Android.

The EnMesh Whole-Home Wi-Fi System is an application-based setup device,
which simplifies the installation process. You will find the EnMesh Mobile
App in the Apple App Store and on Google Play.

Step 2: Prepare your home network.

1. Unplug your modem and wait for 30 seconds, then power it up and power on
   one of your mesh router pods (if you have purchased the three-pack kit).
2. Connect the first router pod’s WAN port to the modem’s WAN
   port via the included Ethernet cable. Place the pod on a nearby shelf or
   TV stand, preferably off the floor.
3. Wait until the device’s LED display flashes from white to
   constant blue.

Step 3: Setup through the EnMesh Mobile App.

1. Put all of your mesh router pods together, and follow the EnMesh wizard
   to guide you through your EnMesh network setup.
2. Deploy your mesh router pods to specific locations around your home
   where you need Wi-Fi. Power on all your router pods and Smart Link will
   automatically connect each one. Then simply enjoy your new EnMesh Wi-Fi
   network.