Hardware

Ubiquiti ROCKETM5 5GHz Hi Power 2x2 MIMO TDMA BaseStation?

For a couple Rocket M5's going on a very exposed tower high up in the elements and very hard to access for repairs.

1. Original plans, total $160

• Ubiquiti AM‑5G20‑90 20dbi $140
• RF Elements RockShield $20 (for the Rocket M5)

2.Total $233

Does anyone have any tips as to where one can purchase Rocket M5 XM models?  As these are the "old" models, I wouldn't expect anything bought on Amazon, etc., to be this model, and I doubt I can get a reseller to unbox it and power it up to check for me.

Another good deal on the RF Elements "RockShield" for the Ubiquiti Rocket line.

http://www.balticnetworks.com/rf-elements-rockshieldtm.html?gclid=CjwKEAjwovytBRCdxtyKqfL5nUISJACaugG1ebBLgxr3W4g3zavp1wmypNcc95t-maI-P-Ce4a6k0RoCw_jw_wcB

$18.90USD

{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?

I recently began thinking about possibly using an airGateway here in my QTH as the number of Nodes will soon grow from one to 3 or 4.

Wondering if the 5 port ToughSwitch and an airGateway will permit me to have a separate 802.11n SSID I can change to whenever working on AREDN.

In the opposite direction, can we utilize airGateways as dtd'ed CPE for temporary SSIDs for use at Deployment sites and Demos?

I don't really want AREDN and my primary QTH wlan to intermingle, especially since my 'inner' wlan also uses 10 net DHCP addressing.

I have been provided with a pair of PowerBeam AC, model PBE-5AC-400-US with the intention of using them as a 5GHz backbone.

Installed firmware: v7.1.3(WA), build 28469

Are these supported? If so, what firmware?

Regards,
Jim
K4SPT