Fun with PtP

After a couple of rounds of nightly builds stomping out bugs, we have a working PtP ↔ Mesh Station on a live network link.

• Here are the basic steps:
• Bring both ends to latest nightly builds.
• Get far end / Station MAC address (click on the Radio section - the MAC address will be shown at the top of the dialog)

• Copy the MAC address.
• Configure far end node as a Mesh Station (requires Commit & Reboot)
• Switch the near end node to PtP mode - a field will appear to paste the far end MAC address in.
• Commit & Reboot.
• The link will come up PtP ↔ Mesh station

Notes:

• The nodes can take almost 4 minutes to come up; be patient.
• A quick and dirty before & after test of throughput (802.11ac devices on both ends):
• Before: Ad Hoc mode:  10-12 Mbit/sec
• After: Infrastructure mode: 20-21 Mbit/sec; a nice bump in throughput (obviously YMMV!)
• 802.11n links show little or no improvement in throughput (again YMMV).
• This is Experimental - if the user community finds it's not all the useful, it may be removed. Feedback desired!