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N8NQH
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AirRouter HP questions

{update, post 13)

Just received my first AirRouter HP.

The factory firmware was XM 5.6x.... so I reflashed it with Ubiquiti 5.5x before sending the Aredn firmware.

This all worked fine, but noticed two unusual items:

1. The Aredn Setup will not allow a channel selection below +1.  I am wanting to operate this AirRouter on -2.  Is this a hardware limitation?

2. After Aredn reflash, I could only accomplish ethernet connectivity via the devices WAN port.  The LAN ports seen to be inoperative  Are the :LAN ports not able  to function as a switch (as they did on the Linksys devices)?

Tim

K5DLQ
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Can you upload a supportdata
Can you upload a supportdata file from the node?  Thanks.
N8NQH
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love to, can you tell me how

you wrote: an you upload a supportdata file from the node?  Thanks.

love to, can you tell me how to get this from the node?  :-)

 

K5DLQ
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On the node, click SETUP
On the node, click SETUP
then Administration
scroll to the bottom of the page
click the link:  Download Support Data
attach to this post via the "Support File Attachments" section (just above the SAVE button)
AE6XE
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Did you test on multiple LAN
Did you test on multiple LAN ports?   One is not a LAN port, rather a DtDlink port only.    But something is certainly amiss if you are not seeing ch -2.   This is the "HP" version with the external antenna, correct?   The non-HP version was not configured in beta1.  If by chance you have the non-HP AirRouter, then make sure you uploaded beta2.   Some of the symptoms you describe could be explained by this.   Darryl's right, the supportdump will tell the details to get to the botom of this.

Joe AE6XE
N8NQH
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can tell you that this is

can tell you that this is definitely a HP model; says so on the box, and the device has the external antenna jack on the back.

I tried every one of the LAN ports, and my computer stays at "obtaining IP address".  But if I plug into the WAN port (through the POE), I get an IP address on the computer within a second or two.

Also, the channel selection screen does not display numbered channels (1, 2, 3...), but instead frequencies only.  The lowest frequency shown is the list is 2.412.

I may try to reflash the device; as during the flash process... it did seem a little weird at times; unlike typical reflashing I've done on other Ubiquiti devices.

n7ie
AirRouter HP
Just wondering which version of AREDN you used to flash your AirRouter HP.  When I got mine, it had AirOS 5.6.x on it also.  I loaded on 5.5.x.  Then I loaded on AREDN Beta Test v3.16.1.0b01.  Everything configured as wanted:  WAN port, 3 LAN ports, 1 dtd port and it does support the -2 and -1 channels. Though I've never tried the current release (v3.15.x) on the AirRouter HP, it is my understanding that AirRouter HP is not supported under that release.  Good luck!
KE2N
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ch -2

I have to mention - in case someone missed it (like I did originally) - that version 3.15 software does not support ch -2 on anything.

WU2S
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3.15.1.0 release notes
Per the 3.15.1.0 release notes:
  • 2.4 GHz now offers channels -1 and -2 which are not shared with WIFI routers
KG6JEI
3.15.1.0 was the release
3.15.1.0 was the release series that added channel -2 support http://www.aredn.org/content/aredn-release-31510
KE2N
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corrected
I stand corrected.  My recollection was that - at  the time I started this - the official release did not support -2  You had to go into the experimental or beta releases. These were still called 3.15-something-something.  Hence my confusion.  
KG6JEI
Yep 3.15.1.0bXX. Where B
Yep 3.15.1.0bXX. Where B stands for beta and comes before the stable 3.15.1.0 release (we're doing the same thing with 3.16.1.0 right now)

Quick reminder the version number scheme is

Protocol version . Year . major release . patch number  and if a beta it's followed by "b" and the beta number and sometimes an "rc" for release candidate and a number when we think all bugs are gone but want to give it just one last test build for sanity.
N8NQH
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I just got done re
I just got done re-downloading the flash files from the website, and reflashing the AirRouter; all is fine now.  The LAN ports are working, and channel -1 and -2 are selectable.
K5DLQ
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good job!  
good job!
 
N8NQH
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Although I haven't tried to

Although I haven't tried to evaluate it's RF performance.... this AirRouter is a lot faster when accessing things.  I dont know what processor they are using, but it is noticeably quicker than Linksys WRT54.

KG6JEI
Depending what model Linksys

Depending what model Linksys you have the speeds were as low as 125MHz and as high as 216MHz.

The AirRouter HP runs a much newer ARM processor at somewhere around 400MHz IIRC.  

While it isn't discussed in any data sheets from Ubiquiti or Linksys another item to factor in is everything else that is used as well.  I don't know all the internal chip numbers to go lookup each one for exact specs but in general there has been significant advances in the speed of Flash and Ram since 2002 when the WRT54G's first came out.  These two components play a significant role, in many ways much more than the CPU, in node performance.
 

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