Hi Guys
Firstly thank you to the kind person who pointed me to the bin for the AR150.
I've started this thread so as to not hijack TP-LINK MR3020 thread
Having bricked a number of original MP2s and one other MR3020, you can understand that I proceed with caution :-)
My AR150's were virgin so they came with GL-Nets standard Web interface.
I set the units back to factory default and flashed it with the latest from Open-WRT - Success
I then took the bins from the VT Directory and 'upgraded' with the AR150 bin.
They both booted up fine and saw each other as mesh nodes.
I changed the IPs from the standard nnn.nnn.nnn.20 to 101 and 102
I turned on DHCP giving an allocation range from 201 to 240
I considered the recommendation of leaving the SSID as VT-SECN-AP for both units
in order to give 'roaming' from unit to unit. I understand the reasons but I decided against this
because my target scenario is a grid down situation and users are likely to be static.
I am therefore adopting a naming convention of "WingMesh-Postcode-HouseNumber-Frequency-Node"
where Wingmesh is the name of my Mesh Network, Postcode is a UK Postcode which defines quite a small area of around one half of one kilometer, The Housenumber is the housenumber within that postcode boundary, the frequency is either 24 or 50 for obvious reasons, and the node number begins at 01, 02 etc within that house.
So I have a proposed "Wingmesh-NR347JE-59-2401" and "Wingmesh-NR347JE-59-2402".
This means each node can be isolated down to a particular geographic location by its SSID.
Attached one of the units WAN port to an Internet Router, (BT Home Hub), logged on to the other unit via WIFI and was able to get through to the Internet quickly.
I then turned off my Home Hub and connected a spare MR3020 together with a G4 dongle-modem, attached this to an AR150 unit with an ethernet cable, and behold, I got through to the Internet. Success.
Next
I found an unwrapped virgin MP2 so I fired it up but found it couldn't see the AP150 nodes. The SECN version was (I don't know but probably ante-diluvian) so I updated to SECN4 and everything fine. Retested Internet via HomeHub and via the G4 and all good.
I found another MP2 but this had already been configured a couple of years ago during an experiment.
I don't have the user-id or password for the management and I don't have the password for the WIFI AP.
I tried holding a pin into the toggle hole and felt it depress and powered but the expected three flashes didn't come - it just rebooted (pin hole??? It really needs a button like the AR150)
What next for that MP2? I'm not going to the serial port - that's like unprotected sex if you don't mind that comment !
I've also got stashed away some other truly bricked MP2s - Don't know what to do with these except use them as bricks.
It's cheaper at £19.99 each to buy the AR150's. They come with external aerials which are 2dbi. The aerials are free. The aerials are overpriced. I have just bought some 8dbi and will report how these work.
The units don't seem to have a great deal of distance, i.e. I can't see them outside of the house but I'm going to try to put one outside on a fine day.
Question?What effect with increasing the output power from 17 to 20 make?
Questions? Is Asterisk built into the SECN for the AR150?
I have Asterisk running on a Raspberry Pi 3
and wondered whether it would be better to connect the Rpi to the AR150 with an ethernet cable?
Would that work?
Likewise a small webserver based on a Raspberry and connected via ethernet to a Lan port? would that kind of resource work.
Well I've got enough work to do so far. If you find this useful, I'll keep this updated.
Long Term, I want to connect a network of nodes to another network of nodes a few miles away with a PTP link using something stronger like Ubiquiti kit but I would be more amused by using old discarded Satellite Dishes.
"Count it all joy brethren ......"
Leonard
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The VT-RACHEL firmware is intended to be used as a self contained 'classroom' device where client devices connect directly to it and join its LAN where the web server is running.The mesh interface is configured to be on the WAN interface to allow use as a backbone network.
When you connect to another node, you can't 'see' into the private network on the LAN side of the VT-RACHEL node.This is exactly the same as someone trying to look into your home network LAN - it is prevented by the security in the NAT firewall that allows requests from the LAN to the Internet, but not the other way.
It seems that what you are trying to set up is a node with a web server that will be visible from any client device connected to any node on the mesh network.Is that correct?
If so, then you will need to do a little network design so that you know how to configure the various routers before starting to set them up.Some questions:How many nodes will you have on the mesh network (at least initially)?What type of device do you plan to use for each of the nodes?Will one of the nodes will be a gateway to an upstream network which will provide Internet access?Or will it be a completely isolated network?
If you want to set up a simple mesh network where client devices can connect to the AP on any node and will be connected in effect to one big, distributed LAN with a single gateway to an upstream network, then that will be fairly easy to do.
A simple approach would be to use the VT-RACHEL node as the gateway node, and that runs the DHCP service for the network.But before starting to work out how to set that up, let's hear what you want the network to achieve.
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Hi Guys
Perhaps the software is trying to register the non-existent Sip account. I got the same message from my Android phone when I misconfigured my VOIP account and tried to use it
Hope you sort it out!!
David Lindsay
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