Ubnt Powerbeam 5ac Gen2 Firmware

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Burning Man IT provides an Internet backbone for Black Rock City participants. While we try our best to provide great service, we cannot guarantee a specific level of service in terms of bandwidth, latency or uptime, nor can we offer any support. Participants themselves organize "Doctors Hours" most days of the event for mutual help.

As you can imagine, getting Internet service in such a remote area is very challenging. It is a limited resource and we need to conserve it as much as possible so please be kind and use it sparingly.

To participate, you need to have a specific kind of microwave radio, mount it in your camp, aim it and keep it powered. This radio acts as a router and DHCP server and has a wired ethernet port. To get WiFi, you'll need one or more WiFi access points. To keep our backbone working well, it's best to configure access points to use 2.4 GHz only (and disable 5 GHz). In the spirit of Radical Inclusion, we encourage you to share the Internet not just with your campmates, but with everyone..

The radio we recommend is the Ubiquiti NanoBeam AC Gen2 NBE-5AC-Gen2-US. It is small and somewhat resistant to the high winds. It's available for about $100 from Ubiquiti, Amazon, or other resellers. In light of the current supply chain shortages, you can also use:

Different zones of Black Rock City are covered by different antennas. Each zone requires a different configuration file. The map below is a rough guideline. You can try different configurations to find the strongest signal. Mutant Vehicles should use the Deep Playa sector.

Plug your laptop into the LAN port of the PoE injector. Give the laptop the static IP address 192.168.1.21, netmask 255.255.255.0. Open a web browser and go to . If it's a device with old firmware, login as user ubnt, password ubnt. Devices with newer firmware will prompt you to create a username and password. Do so. You'll need to remember both for about 10 minutes. Go to the System tab. The first two letters of the Firmware Version field show the board version. Click on Upload Firmware and upload the firmware version recommended below. Do not disrupt power or cables during firmware upgrades; otherwise your device could be bricked.