I seem to have a constant dribble of M series Nanostations that just go stupid for no apparent reason. Ethernet link is up, but can’t talk to it, RF doesn’t associate, not at defaults, reset button doesn’t help. Lights are on but nobody’s home, it’s like the CPU stopped working.
From: Josh Luthman Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2016 9:57 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] ePMP rant Turn off the reset switch option in the advanced config. That solved it for us. In the event we would actually need to reset it, you just put it in firmware recovery mode. We've never had to do this. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 10:55 AM, Adam Moffett <[email protected]> wrote: My problem with M series is they seem to have a tendency to revert to default config during a thunderstorm. I've also seen more than one once where after a thunderstorm the UBNT item at the tower is dead, but everything else is still up. Someone could argue that's just dumb luck, but I don't think so. It's always been a decent option for cheap point to point, like when you need to extend a network between two buildings, or you have Line of Sight to your tower from a barn or detached garage. I also understand the Micro POP use case. That said, my experience with M series was so unimpressive that I haven't bothered looking at their AC products very closely. Maybe I will. On 3/23/2016 10:48 AM, Stefan Englhardt wrote: I hear a lot of people praising the old UBNT M gear for it’s consistant and stable behavior now. We tested it as soon as it came to market and considered it junk. UBNT throws out hardware and then do the SW. At some time it is usable and stays usable. Their AC gear is now usable (not in mixed mode as I have heard). Starting with UBNT AC we had no RMA so far with 100 devices. With ePMP we had to test the first batch as there were some defective devices. Von: Af [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von John Woodfield Gesendet: Mittwoch, 23. März 2016 13:23 An: [email protected] Betreff: Re: [AFMUG] ePMP rant Thats a first, someone who claims UBNT is more stable than ePMP. John Woodfield, President Delmarva WiFi Inc. 410-870-WiFi -----Original Message----- From: "Stefan Englhardt" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2016 3:23am To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: [AFMUG] ePMP rant We pull the plug now on our ePMP installations. We still have disconnects. Every day a disappointed customer calls. We dont look at this anymore. We give them a Mikrotik or a UBNT AC to make them happy and take the ePMP SM back. We had several problems with SW quality in the past. We had bad SMs we need to RMA. At some time it seems stable. Now problems came back. Not sure it is SW or HW. We dont want to bother any longer. This gear is low quality no matter what is said by marketing. We go UBNT AC now. Blazing fast webinterface, background channel scan and more speed on 20MHz Channels. Everywhere we use it we have much better results than with ePMP. These ePMP fans want to tell 11ac is not needed as 256QAM is never achievable. we see it at most of our installed cpes. If signal is to weak for 256QAM there are cheap dish-cpes.
