Hi Andris, Great questions. Thanks for using UniFi.
UBNT-Brandon here (to clarify). Outdoor+: We are not producing these anymore, but will be available for purchase probably for quite some time. We do announcements through distributors rather than directly. Meshing: 1. Wireless uplink itself has improved a ton because of the Mesh effort. It should be quite solid now - and hence should be able to leave uplink connectivity monitor running (I do for example on all my sites). Of course feel free to ping me directly if you see otherwise. 2. Automatic failover allows the Mesh to disregard your intentions for it, in case of a failover. So the idea is you can select your ideal topology, and then enable automatic failover. This will allow the mesh to heal into a different topology say should a wired uplink connection die (cable cut, water in a cable, etc.), for example. 3. Yes - 5GHz can be used for backhaul only. Simply disable 5GHz WLANs on the Mesh units, and then 5GHz will be used for backhaul only. You can even have a dedicated say UAP-AC-M for backhaul (using directive antenna optionally), which feeds ethernet to dedicated client UAP-AC-M. 4. Haven't seen anyone do diplexers yet. Agreed - the diplexers off the shelf are generally more expensive than the UAP-AC-M. Some have just used 2.4GHz airMAX antennas and found them to perform decently as dual-band antennas. We're also working on a dual-band directive antenna. Here's an article detailing the state of wireless uplink and mesh: https://help.ubnt.com/hc/en-us/articles/115002262328-UniFi-Feature-Guide-Wireless-Uplink And here's a compatibility guide w/ airMAX antennas: https://help.ubnt.com/hc/en-us/articles/115002652248-UniFi-UAP-AC-M-and-airMAX-Antenna-Compatibility-Matrix The mesh failover (say in case of ethernet being cut, or power loss) is about 1-2 minutes right now. We're working on a new version (and you're welcome to try it if you'd like) that fails over in under 10 seconds. Thanks again, UBNT-Brandon On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 9:20 AM, Andris Bjornson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > Hoping to get some answers to users familiar with the UAP-AC-M and > UAP-AC-M-PRO, in particular with the mesh deployments. > > Outdoor+ > > > - I heard from my distributor that Outdoor+ is end of life and new > orders are not possible. Is this true? If so, this seems rather sudden? > I can't seem to find an official EOL announcement from Ubiquiti? > > Meshing > > - Regarding meshing: In the past (pre AC-M units) I'd tried the > "upstream connectivity monitor and wireless uplink" and had problems. In > particular, UAPs would go into the wireless uplink state or would flap when > upstream connectivity monitor detected extremely brief disruptions > - Because of this, I currently have upstream connectivity monitor and > wireless uplink disabled on my production unifi networks. > - I think I understand that with the addition of the "enable automatic > uplink failover" checkbox...I should be able to safely enable "upstream > connectivity monitor" and disable "automatic uplink failover" if i want to > experiment with a small number of mesh uplinks *without* any of my > existing non mesh Outdoor+ units trying to do wireless backhaul. Is this > correct? > - Ideally, I'd like to reserve 5GHz entirely for wireless > backhaul/mesh and to not make it available at all to endusers for direct > client wifi connections. Is this possible? > - Has anyone had any luck using a diplexer to split the 2.4GHz and 5.8 > GHz feeds onto different antennas? Seems not too tough to put a 2.4 GHz > sector on 2.4 GHz, but I can't seem to find an attractive SMA > connectorized, small, directional antenna....something like a PowerBeam > M5-22, but with SMA connectors. Also seems kind of cost-prohibitive to > implement. > > > Thanks in advance - any input greatly appreciated! > > --- > Andris Bjornson | EveryLayer <http://www.everylayer.com/> > skype: andris.bjornson > > _______________________________________________ > Ubnt_users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/ubnt_users > >
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