Mesh/Inventory

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See bottom of page for updated casual inventory assessments.

Missing pieces

This is stuff that is needed to complete gear we already have.

  • 12 europlug to U.S. plug adapters (ground not required)
Needed for europlug PoE adapters
  • 7 dc power supplies in the range 10.5 to 24 volts (not sure what plug, but looks standard)
Needed for passive PoE injectors
  • 10 PoE injectors. Either 24 or 12 volts.

Outdoor gear

Meraki Sparky

2.4 ghz antennas

  • 15 very high-gain omnis (used, untested)
Around 3 feet
Have mounting brackets for rooftop vent pipes
Connectors for Ubiquiti Bullets.
Source: First crowdsourced purchase.
  • 20 high gain omnis (used, untested)
Around 1.5 feet
No mounting brackets
12 of them have connectors for Ubiquiti Bullets. The other 8 need male to male adapters.
Source: First crowdsourced purchase.

2.4 ghz routers

  • 76 Ubiquiti Picostation 2 HP (used, power-on tested only)
802.11 b/g
Includes factory omni antennas.
All include PoE adapters, though many need power cables, a few are passive and need a power supply, a few have ungrounded PoE adapters with european plugs that need adapters.
Can be mounted on something round with zip ties.
Most include wall mounts for screwing into a flat surface.
Source: First crowdsourced purchase.
  • 29 Ubiquiti Bullet 2 HP (used, power-on tested only)
802.11 b/g
No built-in antennas.
No mounting brackets.
No PoE adapters included.
Source: First crowdsourced purchase.

5 ghz antennas

  • ~3 old directv satellite dishes

5 ghz routers

  • 1 Ubiquiti Nanobridge M5 25dbi (new, untested)
802.11n
2 x 2 : 2
Includes grounded PoE with remote reset.
Source: Bought on ebay by Juul (talk).
Total price: ? (around $110)
  • 1 Ubiquiti Nanostation M5 (new, untested)
802.11n
2 x 2 : 2
Includes grounded PoE.
Source: Bought on ebay by tunabananas.
Total price: ? (around $110)
  • 1 Ubiquiti Rocket M5 (used, untested)
802.11n
2 x 2 : 2
Includes grounded PoE.
Source: Bought on craigslist by Juul (talk)
Total price: $34
  • 4 Ubiquiti Bullet M5 (used, tested)
802.11n
No antennas.
All include grounded PoE with remote reset.
1 x 1 : 1
Source: Bought on ebay by Juul (talk).
Total price: $113
  • 1 Ubiquiti Nanostation M5 (used, power-on tested only)
802.11n
2 x 2 : 2
Needs PoE.
Source: First crowdsourced purchase.
  • 2 Ubiquiti Nanobridge M5 (used, power-on tested only)
802.11n
Need PoE adapters.
2 x 2 : 2
Source: First crowdsourced purchase.
  • 3 Ubiquiti Airgrid M5 (used, untested)
WARNING: Do not hook these up to a normal PoE supply.
The AirGrid M5 uses 5 vdc PoE. 5.25 vdc absolute max! Anything more will fry it!
802.11n
We need to make PoE adapters for these, as they are not easy to find.
1 x 1 : 1
Source: First crowdsourced purchase.

Indoor gear

2.4 ghz

  • Ubiquiti Unifi indoor
802.11 b/g/n
2 x 2 : 2
Source: First crowdsourced purchase.


Useless-Seeming Gear

A lot of the older gear (including the linksys wrt54 routers which we now have a big bin of) is starting to seem useless. However, we should keep in mind that they can still serve as wired routers and/or switches:

  • In a couple instances, we've had sudoers report that their home network modem serves a 10.* home IP range, which conflicts with our mesh IP system. In these cases, we can send someone home with a crappy router (wouldn't even likely need openwrt) which they could connect to their modem and put in between the modem and their mesh access point. The crappy router could serve a 192.168.1/24 range and do NAT translation which would allow the mesh node to operate.
  • A lot of our longer range gear (ubiquiti, etc.) only has one ethernet hub. That makes it less than ideal for folks who want to run their own services. If we use the crappy router as a proper wired router, we can add network attached devices to run services. This could include network-attached storage, raspberry pie/beaglebone black mini-servers/other server machines.

non-OpenWRT compatible routers

Tools

  • ~20' ladder
At Adeline Livelabs. Owned by Shawn but we can borrow.
  • ~16' ladder
At Adeline Livelabs. Owned by Shawn but we can borrow.
  • Pickup truck
At Hearth. Owned by Lilia, but we can borrow if we schedule.

Needs fixing

Please specify what it is assumed we'd need to repair this stuff.

  • ARCFlex Freestation 2
802.11 b/g/n 2.4 ghz
Dual radio. One 2x2:2 and one 1x1:1.
Includes grounded PoE.
Source: Bought on ebay by Juul (talk).
Price: $60
What's broken: The OpenWRT build for this router has a bug (ssh/telnet not enabled on ethernet port). Just needs serial console access to enable ssh.
  • 3 Picostation 2 HPs
The power LED doesn't come on when they are plugged in to PoE. They are also missing antennas and weather covers.

Fubar

Gear so broken we've given up on it, except possibly for parts.

Inventory by ChrisJ 2013.08.01

The inventory:

  • 42 x Pico Station 2, Antenna, 3 prong POE, no cords (marked with circle on box label)
  • 8 x Pico Station 2, Antenna, 3 prong POE, incl cords (marked with check on box label)
  • 7 x Pico Station 2, Antenna, UK POE (marked with "UK" on box label)
  • 5 x Pico Station 2, Antenna, 12V POE, no wall warts (maked with "12V" on box label)
  • 6 x Pico Station 2, Antenna, 3 prong POE, incl cords - being used by developers to load OpenWRT
  • 13 x Ubiquiti Bullet M2-HP, unboxed
  • 13 x Ubiquiti Bullet M2-HP, in boxes

Inventory of blue bin by Tunabananas 2014.05.28

Usable

  • 19 working picostations
  • 21 mickey mouse cables
  • 5 poe injectors
  • 3 passive poe injectors
  • 9 mounting disks
  • 1 yagi directional antenna
  • JTAG adaptor

Broken

  • 5 broken picostations

Unusable

  • 7 UK poe injectors
  • 10 bullet antennae
  • 15 Bullet 2HP