We just put the UBNT M5 release into beta test. I can't commit to a date on the general release yet, but it should be soon.

Hey, we need assistance from owners of the following Ubiquiti M5 (5.7 GHz) devices:

• Nano Beam
• Bullet HP Titanium
• Rocket HP Titanium
• PowerBridge

We currently don't have any of these, nor do our regular beta testers.  If you do, then you could be a huge help to run a few tests for us to confirm we've accounted for the unique peculiarities of these devices.

Please respond to this post if you can help.  The testing is straight forward and shouldn't take a lot of time.

Thanks and 73,

Andre, K6AH

I have pair of Nano Station M5 devices available and a pair of Titanium Bullet M5 HP devices scheduled for delivery later this week.

If you are still looking for volunteers, I would be happy to help.

Bob, KO2F

We may have an issue with that device.  As we were running through all the board.info files we noticed that UBNT made a board change on the Bullet M5.  We will need to research the change and what it's going to take to make them compatible.

To determine whether it's the new or old board, I need you to run the following:

While it's still running the Ubiquiti AirOS:

1) Telnet or PuTTY (SSH) into the device (default user is ubnt; password ubnt; default ip 192.168.1.20)

2) Run "cat /etc/board.info"

3) Copy the resultant output and submit it as in reply to this post.

I am pretty confident we will get them running...  I have a few UBNT devices that fall into this same category (NanoBeam M5 for example).  We just need the time to figure out what's different about them and code the firmware to deal with it.

Andre, K6AH

Hi Andre,

Here is the board.info file from on of my Titanium bullets.  Do you want me to dump the other three as well?

XM.v5.5.6# cat /etc/board.info
board.sysid=0xe2d5
board.cpurevision=0x00000101
board.name=Bullet M5 Titanium
board.shortname=B5T
board.subtype=
board.netmodes=7
board.hwaddr=0027227C796E
board.reboot=30
board.upgrade=150
board.phycount=1
board.phy.1.maxmtu=2024
board.phy.2.maxmtu=2024
radio.1.name=
radio.1.shortname=
radio.1.bus=pci
radio.1.subsystemid=0xe2d5
radio.1.subvendorid=0x0777
radio.1.txpower.max=25
radio.1.txpower.offset=6
radio.1.antennas=1
radio.1.def_antenna=4
radio.1.antenna.1.id=4
radio.1.antenna.1.name=Main
radio.1.antenna.1.gain=0

Bob, KO2F

Andre,

I have a couple Nano stations and Nano Bridge M5's

Mike

Andre,

What about the Nano Beam M5 ? I know some one that is getting one of these for a mesh we are working on.

Mike AE4ML

You will need a smart switch, not a WRT. WAN is accesses over VLAN1. This diagram may help. http://www.aredn.org/content/device-device-linking-dtdlink

Also, I am running a NanoBeam NBE-M5-19 (XW) successfully. These look like nice devices. Good luck with your deployment.

I have successfully used Cisco 2940 8 port switches in multiple locations for BBHN. 

I have picked them up off of ebay and other sources off the web for about $25 a pop.

Mike AE4ML

The netgear GS105E and GS108E's are also good and inexpensive. Stay away from the TP-LINK switches.

If you happen to pickup a Cisco switch this post may help.

http://www.broadband-hamnet.org/hsmm-mesh-forums/view-postlist/forum-910/topic-910-managed-switch-configuration.html

Daryl K5DLQ,

What firmware are you using with your XW devices?  The release notes of course continue to list the XW devices as incompatible and unsupported.

I acquired some 5.8 GHz devices last year before the XW situation became widely known, and I have not been able to purchase any old stock XM devices (although I didn't try extremely hard).

If there is beta or other software available I'd like to give it a go.

Thanks.

Gary W6GSW

District Emergency Coordinator

Northeast District, Los Angeles Section

Amateur Radio Emergency Service

Hi Gary, see Joe's post...

Thanks to both for the replues.  I will make contact and follow up with Joe.

73.

de Gary W6GSW