Nodes

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.

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 ....

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?



 

This may be the wrong subforum.  If so apologies.

While connected to AirGateway wifi via wifi dongle (and his wired Ethernet disabled) a ham can access his Mesh Node, and other nodes and use his Mesh phone.  But his Internet speed is extremely slow - it is coming through the mesh!

When not  connected to the AirGateway, (Ethernet enabled) his Internet is great, but obviously, no mesh.