The Ubiquiti Nanostations are valued for their dual-port properties; being able to loop the Ethernet cable into, then out of a Nanostation and on to second node is invaluable in many situations.
For a temporary set-up, we just did:
hAP port 5 -- 20 ft cable -- NSM2 -- 2 ft cable -- NSM5 ------------------ 120 ft cable ---------------------- PBM 5 300
And it worked very well.
However the NSM2 was never as far as I know, revved to the XW hardware. That puts it on the endangered species list.
It's probably not well known but the TP-Link CPE 210 and CPE 510s also come with dual Ethernet ports. Even better, they've been 64 MB devices since the beginning. They work well. So consider them if you need dual port devices.
Orv W6BI
For a temporary set-up, we just did:
hAP port 5 -- 20 ft cable -- NSM2 -- 2 ft cable -- NSM5 ------------------ 120 ft cable ---------------------- PBM 5 300
And it worked very well.
However the NSM2 was never as far as I know, revved to the XW hardware. That puts it on the endangered species list.
It's probably not well known but the TP-Link CPE 210 and CPE 510s also come with dual Ethernet ports. Even better, they've been 64 MB devices since the beginning. They work well. So consider them if you need dual port devices.
Orv W6BI
http://downloads.arednmesh.org/snapshots/trunk/readme.md
The TPLink devices do not have this ability at this time (except soon, the cpe220v3 in an upcoming nightly build). As the TPLink devices migrate from the ar71xx to ath79 images, they will support this capability.
Joe AE6XE
I have a CPE220v3 running 3.19.3.0 which I finally had to re-purpose to second string status (location etc) as it seemed to require a second Ethernet cable (up the roof etc) to be able to fully utilize WAN/LAN/dTd activity. I look forward to moving this puppy back up to the front line just as soon as I can fully run it on one Ethernet cable and/or daisy chain out to second local device (like another node or camera).
Joe, do I read your comments above correctly that I should be able to do that soon with an upcoming NB?
Thanks for all that you and the rest of the team does for us,
- Don - AA7AU
Don, I have images now for the cpe220v3. I'll post a link to obtain this evening if you would like to take for a spin. Just waiting this week for OpenWrt to release 19.07.2 to include and push into the AREDN NB. 19.07.1 and .2 included cpe220v3 updates that made this port configuration possible.
Joe AE6XE
Looking forward to getting that CPE220 running on all ports. With all the stuff on OpenWrt 19.07.2 what do you think the timeline might be now for an AREDN RC like 3.20.3.0 ?
You guys are great!
Thanks again,
- Don - AA7AU