Wisp Station Help

[Ian]

Can anyone offer any help for the best Wisp station avail at the
moment with Open Source Software available with ease of flashing. We
need to have dual band with 5Ghz backhaul. Must be able to
authenticate using chillispot to our radius server.

My research has been so far... can anyone add some further.....

MikroTik RouterBOARD 433 http://routerboard.com/pricelist.php?showProduct=43
Not sure using open source software. Any hints?

Ceedtec ...a new one i have been researching is the ceedtec MPC8241.
On some forums I read good reviews but it is supplied with basic ACME
software. Not sure if it will take or even has OpenWRT on board. Looks
a good board. Anyone using?
http://www.ceedtec.com/freescale-mpc8241-embedded-platform-with-dual-mini-pci-expansion-slots.html
I have enquired as these seem a good board. Any feedback?

Personally i like Ubnt gear and use many of their nanostations.
http://www.ubnt.com/products/rs.php I liked seeing the Challenge
http://www.ubnt.com/wiki/index.php/RouterStationChallenge and am very
tempted to try NetrShe http://www.ubnt.com/wiki/index.php/RouterStationChallenge_NETSHe
Has anyoe any experience with this?

On twitter it was good to read that Antonio states "support to ubnt-
rs (dual radio, dual band) is in alfa test" http://twitter.com/robin_mesh
Are there any further details about the alfa test??

I hope this helps both myself and others to beef up our backhauls

[Ian]

Thanks for getting back Nick offline! We really should all keep more
in touch with our community Mesh Networks!!

I had more info forwarded re Open-mesh developments with the
RouterStation. Forum at http://robin.forumup.it/about1454-0-asc-30-robin.html
Looking good and I like what Antonio comments "Ubiquiti is getting
more and more serious about supporting robin..."

I also had a reply re the Ceedtec boards from their UK partners to say
unfortuantely the boards are not available to use Open Source Software
on.I did wonder when i saw on the pic no serial port... Oh well, the
choice is narrowing!

I can never understand it. Surely manufactures will sell more boards
if all our communities can use them and develop to fulfill their
needs.

What other boards are out there?

Keep it Simple, was a comment on Nicks mail!

I like it!

Thanks,

Ian

On 9 Nov, 13:51, Ian <iansal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Can anyone offer any help for the best Wisp station avail at the
> moment with Open Source Software available with ease of flashing. We
> need to have dual band with 5Ghz backhaul. Must be able to
> authenticate using chillispot to our radius server.
>
> My research has been so far... can anyone add some further.....
>

> MikroTik RouterBOARD 433http://routerboard.com/pricelist.php?showProduct=43

> Not sure using open source software. Any hints?
>
> Ceedtec ...a new one i have been researching is the ceedtec MPC8241.
> On some forums I read good reviews but it is supplied with basic ACME
> software. Not sure if it will take or even has OpenWRT on board. Looks

> a good board. Anyone using?http://www.ceedtec.com/freescale-mpc8241-embedded-platform-with-dual-...

> I have enquired as these seem a good board. Any feedback?
>

> Personally i like Ubnt gear and use many of their nanostations.http://www.ubnt.com/products/rs.phpI liked seeing the Challengehttp://www.ubnt.com/wiki/index.php/RouterStationChallengeand am very
> tempted to try NetrShehttp://www.ubnt.com/wiki/index.php/RouterStationChallenge_NETSHe