We have been testing these Bullet's. Nice product for sure. I have a 11KM (7 mile) link with two Bullet5's using WDS.
The signal meter is nice for when you are hanging off the side of a building... I am still waiting for Ubiquiti to compile a new version of the wpa-supplicant into AirOS. Their current version does not support PEAP/MSCHAPv2. You can however throw OpenWRT on the units and put a full featured version of the supplicant on there. Unfortunately you lose the signal meter LED's and a few other features... This is an important feature for us that our Cisco 1200 WGB's do not support. Cheers, Geoff Armstrong Network Support Analyst Connectivity Infrastructure University of British Columbia - Information Technology (604) 822-1305 UBC Wireless - http://www.it.ubc.ca/internet/wireless.html From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Robert Owens Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 8:10 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Seeking recommendation for wireless bridge product I have been testing some of the new Ubiquiti Products for a "point to point" application. Specifically the new Bullet5 product. So far I have been impressed with their abilities but have just used them in a test setup so far. They have a very good price point. They are new enough that they are somewhat hard to find and have no long term history although the company has been in the Wireless ISP provider area for some time. Are current bridges are using Cisco. Bob Owens Kansas State University ----- Original Message ----- From: Philippe Hanset <mailto:[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 9:15 AM Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Seeking recommendation for wireless bridge product Lih-Er, Considering your budget, you could: Acquire two linksys WRT54GL and load open-wrt, then use the WDS protocol, (2.4 GHz only!!!) or get two Proxim AP-4000 (Ebay has good deals on those), use WDS and enable the turbo mode. The Proxim has two radios. So we usually use one radio (the 5 Ghz) for bridging to the small structure and the other radio (2.4 GHz) for Wi-Fi coverage. The bridge will pass multiple VLANs! Philippe Hanset Univ of TN On Mar 11, 2009, at 9:58 AM, Daniel Eklund wrote: Lih-Er, We have used the Proxim Tsunami Quickbridge product for some time now and are very happy with it. However, it's going to cost you at least twice what you have budgeted. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lih-Er Wey" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 5:54:41 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Seeking recommendation for wireless bridge product I need to bring network to a structure (2-story) in a field from a building (about 1000 feet away, 7-story). It does not need high bandwidth. I would like to hear any product recommendation from you. The budget range is under a $1000 for a pair of wireless bridge. I am more concern about the reliability and security sides of the product. By the way, does anyone have experience with NanoStation5 from Ubiquiti network? It is quite inexpensive ($160 a pair). Thanks! Lih-Er Wey Wireless Project, Network Management Academic Technology Services Michigan State University __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 3924 (20090310) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found athttp://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
