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

[Ben West]

A member of the WISPA listserv informed me these guys actually use a
slightly different chipset than the existing UBNT M-series radios, and that
no sneaking under radar was being attempted.  They're just very cheap
products, so UBNT's willingness to commit lots of resources to marketing
them is likely minimal.  They are more or less on sale now,  and definitely
at the reseller.streakwave.com site.

I should again point out I've still not found any mention yet of folks
flashing these units with OpenWRT.


On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Andy Gunn
<andygunn at opentechinstitute.org>wrote:

> 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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> > 314-246-9434
> >
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> Andy Gunn, Field Engineer
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>



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