[Commotion-discuss] Really little $20 POE wifi hotspot: AirGateway

[Andy Gunn]

Hi Ben - these look pretty interesting. Once they are available I will
probably order one to play with.

Should be a great board for experimentation, or as a low cost indoor AP
for community / neighborhood networks that are mostly rooftop based!


On 08/16/2013 04:33 PM, Ben West wrote:
> I spied someone showing off their modded Ubiquiti AirGateway on the
> Burning Man wifi list, in particular cracked open to run directly off
> 12VDC from a solar panel / battery system:
> 
> http://mindfart.com/pic/?airgate-injector1
> http://mindfart.com/pic/?airgate-injector2
> 
> The burners seem to love it, what with all that radical self-reliance
> and so forth.
> 
> In normal use, this little guy snaps in between the stock POE injector
> provided with the UBNT radio and the cat5 run. I believe it has the same
> 400MHz / mips32 embedded SoC as other UBNT M-series gear, and 32MB of
> RAM.  My guess is that it has 2dB on-board patch antenna, but I'm hoping
> that de-popping 0ohm resistors makes the addition of an RP-SMA pigtail
> possible.
> 
> http://www.ubnt.com/airmax#airgateway
> 
> Looks like Ubiquiti is totally sneaking this under the radar.  Vendors
> should start selling it hopefully in a month or two, although burners
> say it can be purchased right now by creating an account at
> reseller.streakwave.com <http://reseller.streakwave.com>.
> 
> The datasheet indicates it runs AirOS, which would suggest reflashing to
> OpenWRT is possible.  I've yet to find any confirmation about that, though.
> 
> 
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> Ben West
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Andy Gunn, Field Engineer
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