I've found that Nanobeams have problems with WDS. I tried 5.5.9 and maybe 5.5.10? I emailed Ubnt but it never got anywhere. Ended with putting up MT radios.
Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 11:18 AM, Rory Conaway <[email protected]> wrote: > And I’m not seeing the problem where I have XW clients talking to XM > Rockets. Now that I think about it, I had the Powerbeam as the station and > the PowerBridge as the AP. Dang, should have flipped that and retested. > The thing that caught me off guard is that this has been working for > several months, no issues. It just randomly went weird. > > > > Rory > > > > *From:* Af [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Josh Luthman > *Sent:* Wednesday, March 4, 2015 9:07 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Ubiquiti radios with different xm/xw firmware > > > > No. Different architecture. > > Think compiled for Arm vs x86 Windows. > > Josh Luthman > Office: 937-552-2340 > Direct: 937-552-2343 > 1100 Wayne St > Suite 1337 > Troy, OH 45373 > > On Mar 4, 2015 11:05 AM, "Bill Prince" <[email protected]> wrote: > > I thought the XM versus XW was just a hardware thing. Is it possible to > update a device that is on XM with XW? > > > bp > > <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> > > > > On 3/4/2015 8:03 AM, Vince West wrote: > > I am not 100% sure on this, but I have only been loading XM firmware > with NSM, Rockets and NanoBridges. For anything newer, like the NanoBeams > we have been using the XW firmware. > > > > I have seen pretty decent improvements on throughput in some of my rocket > APs since we did these software upgrades. I don't have any PowerBridges in > service anymore, so I can't speak for those. > > > Vince West > > Tower Hand > > Technical Support > > Shelby Broadband > > 148 Citizens Blvd > > Simpsonville, KY 40067 > > Phone: 1-888-364-4232 > > > > On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 1:33 AM, Rory Conaway <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I know that was some discussion on this and some people said that mixing > firmware was a problem, even with 5.5.10. I hadn’t seen the problem until > about a week ago. Had PowerBridge talking to a Powerbeam talking to a > PowerBridge which then link to a another PTP using NS5’s and an AP on that > end. It seemed to work great for several months. A week ago, the AP at > the end started pushing through 10-20 pings and then dropping 3 pings. > After finding nothing, we pull the PowerBridge and replaced it with a > PowerBeam. Problem solved. > > > > On the other hand, we have a boatload of NS5M’s, some with XW firmware > connected to XM Rockets. No problems so far. > > > > Rory > > > > >
