[mesh-dev] Nanobeam and assumptions

[Nemesis]

We compared performances of Bullet and NanoBridge with stock firmware
and OpenWRT AA, there were no major differences.

Don't know about 802.11 AC though.

Mitar is right regarding Point to multipoint links. Although my
experience with ptmp links is that cause all sorts of (human) problems
when the community grows because most people tend to connect there
(because they don't need to ask somebody else to buy a new device) and
then owners of ptmpt nodes start thinking about restricting access and
then all sort of fights happen. I spoke about this with Leandro Navarro
of Guifi.net and he told me they have a lot of these cases too and had
in some cases they had deal with them with community lawyers.

Federico


On 03/12/2015 05:38 AM, Mitar wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Oh, sorry, that was the reply to:
>
>> 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.
>
> That we are confirming something like this in wlan slovenija network as
> well.
>
> We haven't tried NanoBeam there yet. But we are using NanoBeams (with
> original firmware) in Berkeley now. But there is no comparison made here
> with OpenWrt firmware (I am a lazy person and I am letting others figure
> OpeWrt for it first before I will be flashing them).
>
>
> Mitar
>
>> Is it actually a beamforming antenna thing?
>>
>> If they're using the smart array antenna thing then, *cough* I know
>> how that works. Would you be able to take some photos of the
>> internals?
>>
>>
>>
>> -adrian
>>
>>
>> On 11 March 2015 at 21:23, Mitar <mitar at tnode.com> wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> Yes, we are often using original firmware on point-to-multipoint links
>>> with Ubiquiti hardware because performance is much better. For
>>> point-to-point link there is not much difference. We think that TDMA is
>>> the reason.
>>>
>>> It is not so big problem using original firmware. Because mostly we use
>>> on the same location also a 2.4 GHz TP-Link router for local access,
>>> having a switch, and then we run routing protocol on it, and having
>>> Ubiquiti equipment in a bridge mode.
>>>
>>>
>>> Mitar
>>>
>>>> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 9:01 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> 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?
>>>>>
>>>> Yeah, it's just 11n but we don't actually have any lying around so we can't
>>>> verify that it's actually a problem.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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