[mesh-dev] Nanobeam and assumptions

[Adrian Chadd]

Hm, I may be able to help figure out why the performance is crap. It's
just an atheros chip; there's no 11ac radio in it right?


-a


On 11 March 2015 at 20:38, Marc Juul <juul at labitat.dk> wrote:
> It seems that there is now preliminary support for nanobeam devices in
> OpenWRT:
>
>   https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/16796
>
> So that's nice, but the second to last comment says that speeds are much
> lower than for stock firmware. It could be that this person just didn't
> configure his node correctly or it could be that this is the case for all
> ubiquiti devices.
>
> Lately we've been talking about the possibility of using non-openwrt routers
> for point to point bridged links. We've heard from a few people that
> performance of ubiquiti M5 gear for point to point links is basically the
> same in OpenWRT and stock firmware.
>
> I think we should test that ourselves. I'm ordering some nanobridges and
> nanostations right now and we should do a few tests with point to point and
> point to multipoint using openwrt and stock firmware.
>
> It'd be nice to have benchmarks on our wiki. I can't find any existing
> benchmarks online?
>
> --
> marc/juul
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