Greetings all,
We are considering some used Power Station M2 and M5s. They use the Atheros AR2316 SOC. I did a search of Power Station on the forum but did not get much. Has anyone looked at them? Are they lumped in with any other mesh firmware group (like NanoBridge or NanoStation)?
We are excited about beta 2 in the Ottawa, Canada area.
73.
Rick (VE3CVG)
I am not able to locate a PowerStation M2 model datasheet, only a PowerStation 2 (PS2) datasheet, its possible the "PowerStation M2" existed and they rolled it into something else but I can't find an original datasheet for it.
If you do instead mean the PowerStation 2 (which sounds like you do as the PS2 used the AR2316 chip) these devices actually pre-date the M series hardware. Our current system requirements are devices with 8mb flash and 32mb ram minimum, the PS2 is a 4/16 device which is below our limits. Additionally while we don't currently specify a CPU limit, the CPU on the PS2 is under half as fast as the M series (180MHz vs 400MHz) which puts it closer to some other hardware that has trouble evening running the routing daemon, I would expect the PS2 would perform slowly on the network.
The probably closest replacement to the PS2 is the NanoBeam M2 (Not yet supported) or a Rocket M2 and dual polarity panel type antenna
You are correct ... I should have said Power Station 2 and 5 (no M). Thank you very much for the clarification on the old PS hardware and its limitations. So I guess these will work fine as a point-to-point extension, they just won't mesh.
73 and Happy July 4
Rick (VE3CVG)