Hardware

I am considering getting a couple Ubiquiti M3 Rocket units to experiment with.

Does anyone know whether units produced in 2014 have the WX boards?  I am looking a couple NOS units that have a June 2014 inspection date but haven't been able to get further details.  Unfortunately, the units aren't local to me so I can't read them or otherwise inspect them.  It is unlikely that I can get the person who has them to read them for me.

Thanks.

Fred Bray
KE6CD

Last night we converted 2 PowerBeams:  M5-300 & M5-400.

The 300 went fine, but in my fatigue we made a crucial error on the 400.  At the point we were rolling back from AirOS 5.6.2 XW, I accidentally selected the new AREDN firmware and installed it.  It's my understanding this is a likely bricking scenario.  

I wasn't able to connect to it immediately, but since the LEDs indicated it booted the AREDN firmware I tried the reset button and a prayer.  It worked and I was taken to the initial screen.

I am the "source" node for our five node Mesh in Lake Havasu City, AZ, via Internet Tunnel (tnx, AI6BX). I am RF connected to a Rocket M5 w/ 120° Sector on a high point. Several other nodes connect to it. My NS-M5 has main and secondary port. One goes to my home network for the tunnel. The other supplies IP to computers, RasPBX, Pi, WiFi.  In order to provide better signal I am replacing it with a PowerBeam 5GHz, which has only one port.  I'm looking for options.

Greetings from Canada!

I recently bought, configured, installed and ran a used Rocket M5 as my tunnel server.
That was it's sole purpose.  No antennas were connected to it, and in the
configuration the power settings were at the minimum (6db?).

Okay, so it was working fine until recently.
All of a sudden it decided to go brain dead.
No problem ... I re-flash it using TFTP without problem.
It takes the TFTP without complaint, but when it reboots
and I'm sitting at the NOCALL page, I notice that the

Hi leading-edge folks -

I just updated my new Ubiquity Powerbeam M5-400 to the 3.17.1.0RC1 factory firmware.  Set up the new node eventually.

Then rebooted, changed psw, and re-accessed localnode.local.mesh:8080 successfully. Now I want to access setup, and the node does not accept the new user name and password!!??  I thought I wrote them down properly, but ....

The data sheet for Ubiquiti's TouchSwitch series indiacates VLANs are supported, however, it does not specifically state that the switches are compliant with 802.1Q VLAN. Has anyone successfuly used these switches in their mesh network?

Thanks and 73,

Bob

I was under the impression that the difference between the Powerbeam M5-400 and M5-300 (XW devices) was simply the size of the dish, but I see that there is different RC1 firmware suggested in the firmware matrix.  According to the Firmware tables, the PBE-M5-300 shoiuld load the NSLoco XW RC1 firmware where the PBE-M5-400 says Rocket XW firmware.

Aren't these the same "heads"??  If so, why the different firmware recommendation? 

While we're at it - how about the PBE-M5-620?