{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
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Wed, 04/06/2016 - 23:30
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AirRouter HP questions
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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? :-)
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)
Joe AE6XE
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.