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

[Andy Gunn]

I am hoping we can test a few builds of OpenWRT on these and find out.
I'm going to leave the actual testing of that to the Commotion
developers though, as I'm not sure how to go about doing that.



On 08/22/2013 12:02 PM, Ben West wrote:
> 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
> <http://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 <mailto: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>
>     <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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>     Andy Gunn, Field Engineer
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> Ben West
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Andy Gunn, Field Engineer
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