Hi,
I am looking in to setting up an AREDN in Nottingham, England, UK and so i have been looking at the hardware available and keep coming back to the newest version of the Ubiquiti Rocket M2 the Ubiquiti Rocket R2AC Prism airMAX.
https://www.ui.com/airmax/rocket-prism-ac/
But it is not listed on the supported platform matrix and a Google search did not seem to come up with anything relevant.
Does anyone know if it is suitable ?
thanks
adam
I am looking in to setting up an AREDN in Nottingham, England, UK and so i have been looking at the hardware available and keep coming back to the newest version of the Ubiquiti Rocket M2 the Ubiquiti Rocket R2AC Prism airMAX.
https://www.ui.com/airmax/rocket-prism-ac/
But it is not listed on the supported platform matrix and a Google search did not seem to come up with anything relevant.
Does anyone know if it is suitable ?
thanks
adam
the "AC" chipset have not yet been ported to part97 frequencies.
To ebay then and get some of the older Ubiquiti hardware. Still, i suppose it all does largely the same thing at the end of the day.
Do you know if support for the AC chipsets is coming soon ? (is it worth holding off untill ...)
thanks
adam
you should seriously consider some of the newly supported Mikrotik hardware. (You can still buy new "M" models of Ubiquiti. they have not dropped them.)
We have not started looking at the AC (ath10k) chipset driver modifications yet.
Adam, There isn't a lot of motivation or urgency for AREDN to move to the AC chipsets just yet:
1) The AC hardware will come at higher costs in manufacturer's latest devices
2) The 802.11ac spec does not offer any features over 802.11n that benefits long distance links. The AC improved data rates is primarily achieved by using more bandwidth and more antennas, neither of which can be used in long distance links. We can only use 2 antennas with V and H polarizations, any more and too much interference across different polarizations is self defeating. We also need sufficient SNR at longer distances -- when same power is spread across more bandwidth, we just don't get as good as data thoughput.
3) Numerous 802.11n hardware options still being manufactured by vendors, including Ubiquiti AirMax line, GL.iNet, Microtik.
We'll hope the open source community creates features in the 802.11ac driver we need and then naturally bring support in AREDN. Could be next week, next month, or ???. Meanwhile, this allows our time to be spent on other more urgent features for now. To support, we need to get over these hurdles:
1) no opensource 5MHz and 10MHz options yet
2) circumventing manufacturer flash settings for regulatory domains into part 97
Joe AE6XE