So, I have to say thank you very much. I am using 1st gen NB5AC16 for almost 5 years now and I didn't have PTP enabled and never got above 40mhz, i turned on PTP and was able to get 80mhz and now i'm getting over 600mbs over a line of site 300ft distance, as well as my full 300mbs down internet speed. Dude, thank you so much. I really appreciate, you, your channel and all the knowledge and education you provide.
Thank you so much for this video. It helped me set up our wireless bridge across our farm's property - we finally have internet in our sheep barn, which let me set up cameras so we can check the flock during the current lambing season.
I'm only `5 minutes in, but wanted to pause to tell you that I dig your teaching style. Very easy to follow. We're actually setting up these Ubiquities for a couple of remote sites at work right now and this was well needed...
Excellent video as others have stated. I once had to mount one of these to a concrete wall and wanted to point out that a 1/4" Tapcon X 3 1/2" long worked perfect and it will fit right inside the ball through the hole in the center. This method can also be used for wall mounting into wood or a stud through the drywall, just adjust your screw length and type as needed. Thanks again for your clear and accurate help!
Thanks again Chris. I've been using Unifi products for about 10 years now and easily forget the steps in configuration. I've learned not to take things for granted and make sure each tiny step is somewhat understood and followed through. So important in this type of work. All the best! John for ACTX
Chris, your videos are clear and well laid out! I totally appreciate the service you're providing to the community. For those of us who have the bandwidth to dive in just enough, you've helped me learn and saved me the expense/hassle of finding someone else to do it for me. If you teach man to fish... Thanks much. I have a Nanobeam 5AC as my AP and 3 NSM5s as my stations. Working great. That being said, would love to see how to configure the UISP. All the best
Create a ubiquiti account at account.ui.com, then create a free UISP instance at uisp.ui.com, get the UISP key in SETTINGS - DEVICES - DEVICES ADOPTION - COPY UISP TO CLIPBOARD (and paste it somewhere to easily retrieve it in the future) then plug that UISP key into the radios you're using, then "assign" the devices as they show up in UISP to a site or a client (which you need to create). Take an hour to poke around UISP to get comfortable with using it to manage your sites/devices (and even customers, if you flip UISP into "ISP MODE" so you can use the CRM app for customer management - an AWESOME aspect of UISP, easy to build a business off of!) UNMS (the predecessor to UISP) was better IMHO, but UISP has been redesigned to eventually integrate Unifi and UISP as a single management platform for both product lines (will take Ubiquiti YEARS to get this fully realized, if ever, IMHO). UISP is an amazing, free product, that you can even self-host, host in the cloud, and spin up business with by being a Managed Service Provider for your customers who use Ubiquiti (or you move them to). Good luck and enjoy.
Can you show us how to dial in the ptmp connections in your future install video? I remember back in the day looking at those popcorn static ball looking things and not being able to make heads or tails out of it. Also, would love a follow-up video on how to manage all these devices in UISP. Thanks!!
Love this video. We just set up a similar ptp today and had we watched this first could have avoided a few issues that were later resolved. I sent links to this video to my other support staff as we will be setting up a few more clients in the near future. Can't wait for the next one. Thanks
Thanks Chris, Good video. I'd like to see a quick video maybe of fine tuning the signal with these devices. I have the NanoBeam AC Gen2 that you did this video on but can only get it to process a 200mb average speedtest even though it shows a 700mb connection for the bridge. THANKS!
Yeah, Chris, a video talking about fine-tuning or troubleshooting PTMP connections would be phenomenal. I've been in a situation, where I've had clear line of sight, great signal numbers from the AP to the Station, but garbage numbers from the Station to AP. I'm also not entirely clear on how to improve alignment when signal chain 0 is low while signal chain 1 is high. the UI ISP crowd has not been incredibly helpful (or supportive) when trying to look for help.
You did not show how to connect the network behind each station. How is that done? Is that via the other port in the injector and can that then go to a regular unifi switch?
This video is amazing. Inwas beating my head against the wall trying to figure out why they wouldn't connect. After watching this video and getting yhe settings all corrected they connected to each other roght away!
Follow-Up. Power cycling the LiteAP fixed for one base station, the other was left without PoE when someone else was troubleshooting. Plugged back in and all is well again. If I had known about the PoE adapter that provides 24V passive from 802.3af, I could have fixed most of this issue remotely. Thanks for the video!
@@tompuryear Be careful if you're powering the LiteAP with a PoE port of an ERx or ERx SFP. I've found many times, the hard way, that not using a PoE brick and letting the ER's power the LiteAP eventually led to a lot of bounces and instability. Edge Switches on the other hand have never given me problems, oddly enough.
@@brandonbrand2338 You're very welcome. ERx is a powerful little router, but after about a year, it's PoE output on port ETH4 just starts going south and the gear powered off it bounces constantly! I have yet another customer with the same issue - just started a week ago... be well!
What about setting up the management VLAN? Could you do a video on that? Also, I have a EA device. Waiting for it to be released publicly. It’s UISP in nature. Hopefully you will review and setup on that too…
Good video, Chris. Would be good to see a bit more of an advanced video on setting up the best possible link by tweaking the AP/Station pair by using AIR MAGIC, AIR VIEW, and Alignment tools to assist people in getting the best possible link and capacity from the radios. Also, differences between a simple BRIDGE MODE deployment vs. a ROUTER mode deployment, among other things. Certainly a good run down of basic features and config steps to get a simple BRIDGE up between two locations. The Nanostation Locos are hands-down the best and financially cheapest radios for PTP and even PtMP scenarios where the beam width is no greater than 45 degrees (unless the AP/Station pair are so close to each other that you can literally point them in any direction and still get them to lock up!). Also, I'll add, having (or using) UNIFI gear on the CPE side makes no sense really, unless it's a larger physical environment/building where you need UNIFI features for use/management. The AirCube ISP and AirCube AC model of EdgeMAX CPE wifi routers do an ample job of providing whole-home/business wifi, unless the home/business are over 3000 sq ft, I've found in my professional deployments. And, the AirCube's are also manageable in UISP also, so you don't need two different management platforms to see/tweak all your devices. UI will soon be merging UNIFI and UISP into one platform to make dual/hybrid environments possible! I can't wait, but it won't affect me if they don't - just have to manage UNIFI on one webpage and UISP on another.
Second that! I would love to see a video with alignment tips and how to maximize speeds. I have a setup like this and I'm getting only 100Mbps on a distance of less than 0.5 mile
@@rafaelpadilha4511 Is there obstruction between the radios? What models are you using? Did you use the alignment tool, AirMagic, or AirView? If not, look into those tools - super helpful to get the best possible link and capacity. I'll try to do a video soon - just super busy now with summer on my heels!
Hey Chris, great video. Wish it was done in early 2020 when I set up a PTP for our church and had difficulty finding Ubiquiti documentation. Man they owe you big time for the best tutorial! Maybe Ubiquiti will take the hint and create an in-depth video tutorial on all of the settings. Anyway, many thanks!
Spent ages today getting a link going, turns out it wasn't my config after all. It was a faulty switch port! Anyway nice to watch your video for a sanity check! Anyway YES to a UISP video. I have 25 devices on mine and still don't understand how to set up the device locations, Sites and clients.
Please do more with UISP I have got a wide number of all of the equipment including EA stuff and I need help setting this up as a WISP! Thanks for this video it really helps I wish I can send you my setup but you know how EA works!!! So great that you are making this as I am building this
Hit me up - I have 12 instances of UISP for my own WISP, customers, and other businesses with IT folks who manage it themselves (Management As A Service). Not difficult to do at all. Ubiquiti makes it simple.
Hi Chris, Great video and my Nanobeams 5 are working fantastically thanks to watching your video, are you going to do one on setting up the UISP, as I would like to remotely access them, instead traveling around trip of 200kms them I need to do something on them, anyway great video's thanks.
Very helpful. Very clear. Can you just add an access point, such as UAP AC Lite, plugged directly into the Station1 or Station 2 to provide WiFi access to laptops and other devices?
Super helpful. It seems the access point only transmits the pipeline of the internet to the station and not the AP’s local network. Is there something I’m missing?
A wireless scan won't help. The WIFI environment is quite dynamic, and what is an unused frequency today, can be congested tomorrow. Thanks for updating this video in 2022 Chris. I didn't realize till partway through that the comment on the old videos were 5 years old! How time flies
Hi - I have a 5 year old unify switch 16 150W, a security gateway 12v 1A Adaptor and Cloud Key Gen 2. All of this is is connected to a 5 year old ARRIS dual band router 802.11ac (2.4 and 5G). I want to upgrade the router with more security and power. I have been disappointed with the Unify access points and routers (access points have never worked after provisioning for some reason and we need them for our large home and garages). What non-Unify router would you recommend that is powerful enough gaming, 8K TV, and has exceptional security considering AI. I use this system for my small business and for internet access for our family. I’m not super tech savvy but did use your videos to set up the system which has worked for 5 years (except for the access points). I need help with security upgrades, assessment of the system to troubleshoot proper set up and correct the access points issues.
Could you do another short video showing how to scan the area for other traffic as you referred to in this video? This was an excellent video and very thorough. Thank you.
This was a very good video and I learned a lot. I am advising a neighbor who like me is on Starlink and who might need a wireless P2P bridge to add a house his son is building a few hundred yards away. I had a few questions. First, I noticed you set the Nanobeam AP and the other end to static IP addresses so when you hooked them up to your home network you knew how to connect to them. Starlink does not support static IP addresses like most routers. I assume if you set them to DHCP you could go into the device table on Starlink after the boot and find the assigned IP address? Second, how would you point the AP Nanobeam unit in the case of a PTMP arrangement where the 2 remotes are in different directions from the AP? Say the remotes are 180 degrees apart? Finally in the case I mentioned above how good are these units at linking up with trees in the way?
Thank you Chris. With your help, we are up and running on a pair of PBE-5AC-Gen2 units. You tutorial translated with only a couple of minor differences. The instructions that came with these things were... lacking. Like, for instance, the default IP address. Couldn't have done it without you.
For most residentials installs that people are on a budget I use the NanoStation 5AC Loco's, $49 each. The only downside is that even though they connect at 300 Mbps, the LAN ports are only 100Mbps
Nanostation Loco AC's are GIG ports (but only if you use a GIG PoE adapter!!! Always, always, always use Poe-24v-G adapters, not the older 100 Mbps PoE adapters!) and they can lock up at 655 Mbps symmetrical MAX capacity on Point-To-Point (PtP) links - I have many in the field like this. However, in Point-To-MultiPoint (PtMP) scenarios, YES, the AC-branded radios will only hit 340 Mbps MAX capacity because they are servicing on a 40 MHz channel width, not 50/60/80 MHz channel widths. The older models of Locos (Nano M2's) have 100Mbps ports only.
As always, many thanks. I look forward to how the physical directional setup works, if you have multiple stations which are not co-located in just one direction. It would be great if that gets covered in a later video (while not wishing to set someone as busy as yourself any homework 😊).
IF the radios are close enough together, and are configured for FULL power, you can literally point them in any direction. I've configured Nanostation Loco 5AC radios in a basement and had the Stations connect to an outside AP quite a distance away (1500 feet) and pass over 100 Mbps symmetrical, then using AIR MAGIC (a tool availabe on the AP side), get the radio to tell me the best frequency to use to increase symmetrical bandwidth between the AP and the stations, then change to that frequency on all the remote stations, then the AP, and boom - top bandwidth across all radios pointed in whatever direction is possible at the locations needed. I have campus locations with an AP pointing in one direction, and Stations pointing in various directions with perfect signaling and great bandwidth. Using the built-in tools on both sides (AP and Station) is key to making this work. Look up AIR MAGIC and AIR VIEW (older tool, but still indispensable to find the best channel/frequency for the radios to communicate over).
@@samdotson7297 It depends on many factors - the radios being used, the frequency being used, channel width, capacity desired, the fade margin you're looking to achieve, etc. It's really a matter of what you're trying to achieve. As an example, consider a campus scenario where one building might only have 2 people with 2 devices (a smartphone and a laptop each) and a voip phone for them both to use - do you need 100 Mbps, or will 20 suffice? If 20, then you could set up a PTP or PtMP that only gets around 23 to 25 Mbps (20 Mbps total with a 15 percent fade margin (3 Mbps)). All things depend on what you really *need* on the other side(s). I don't ever look at the links as "maximum bandwidth all the time" but more "what do you actually need to accomplish" as a least common denominator starting point, then ramp up from there. So if an AP is behind a 300 foot thick forest and a station side only needs 25 Mbps total to serve the CPE devices, I know I can achieve that with a pair of Nano locos and an AirCube ISP (about $150 of gear and probably $400 of labor depending on cable runs and how I have to snake the cabling from point a to b, etc. Make sense?
we use these gen 2 versions with AC Prisms/typically with 5G16 120 antennas - for temporary video installs at large events and festivals across the United States... they are pretty bulletproof... have also thrown in some power beams for the occasional 5 mile + shot... like anything else these days though , very hard to find in stock currently.
Great video as usual, Chris. Thanks! Sort of a dumb question, but these nanobeam devices must "point" at each other, right? That is, the internet side is not omnidirectional ...
To do PtMP, let's say there are 3 and all the nanobeams are in a straight line.. The AP in middle (meaning each station is 90 degrees from the center)... how wide is the "beam" on the AP? Can a single AP talk to both stations?
Awesome video you got me internet when I was only able to get hotspot!! My question is, how do I get back to the dashboard after setup? Mine's been running for several months and I wanted to check the alignment and I can't figure out how to get back to the original setup dashboard! Any help is appreciated, thank you again for helping me get internet!!
Great video man, very informative. Just an idea though rather than changing the ip address for the interface everytime, you can add multiple IP addresses under the add option in the advanced options for the tcp/ip properties. I actually have about 5 different IP addresses set for different devices I frequently have to program.
Great video, thank you. I was about to reproduce this set-up for a PtP set-up I needed at my cabin. I thankfully checked with Ubiquity Customer Service to ask different between this and the UBB setup. Important thing to note that this or the AirMax setup can only be managed by UISP app. It can't be managed by a UDM-Pro or remotely through the Portal. Have to go with the UBB solution in order to do that. Would have been a real problem to not be able to check their status remotely. Keep up the good work!
Excellent video Chris. Well laid out and to the point. I've been using UI equipment for PtP, indoor AP's for schools and businesses, Routers, Switches etc and always have had great results. The one subject that's starting to get cloudy for me is PoE. With multiple IEEE formats on the market now and so many devices utilizing PoE I've been trying to breakdown the various forms myself. Would you have a video talking about various PoE? Power over Ethernet (PoE) & IEEE formats 1. 802.3af - 12.95W devices 2. 802.3at or PoE+ - 25.5W devices & backwards compatible with 802.3af 3. 802bt or PoE++ - up to 100W & backwards compatible with 802.3af/at 4. Passive PoE
PoE is just as you listed above, pretty simply four levels of power provisioning and active or passive (the device providing power is unable to intelligently determine if PoE is needed by the connected device, so you MUST know the device you need to power can take the PoE and not get zapped by the power it's being injected with). Active PoE (af / at / bt) are intelligent and can detect if the device needs power, how much, and gets powered without bad affects. Passive power sources can be used by some devices (like laptop computers) without bad affect, but be careful in general with passive. Other than active/passive, the three active levels (af / at / bt) are based on wattage needs of the device(s) being powered. Then there is 24v vs. 48v vs. 56v and what PoE power source you need (switch, poe adapter, etc.) All networking devices needing PoE will have a voltage rating, so as long as you provide the corrent voltage and amperage (volts * amps = watts), you'll power the connected devices just fine. Ubiquiti has some cool switches (and there are many others on the market) for PoE provisioning, like the Nanoswitch (a 24v 4-port switch - 1 port is PoE in and 3-ports passive PoE out. I forget the voltage/amp/wattage on it, but check the docs on UI's site (or whatever manufacturer you use). With PoE, the devil is in the details of the devices you need to power (active or passive needed, voltage / wattage needed) and the device providing power (switch or PoE adapter) to make sure they match up properly. Considering the adapters are pretty cheap, I keep a variety in stock to ensure I can power a wide variety of devices, known or unknown, when I'm doing an install / at a customer site and have a need for an unknown situation, etc. Good luck.
useful and easy to understand, much thanks ! The only thing that looks confusing to me in configuration is client station switch p2p/p2mp for modes. I can understand this switch on AC but why client station needs to know which mode AC operates in is strange for me
Just wondering this obviously just rescheduled your LAN out, but is there a way to have the station side to be a seperate LAN and not have access too the main network, kind of like plugging a router into a router?
It looks like beginning @ 17:58, "Select All" was chosen, then he de-selected the visible DFS frequencies, but he DID NOT SCROLL DOWN to continue de-selecting even more DFS frequencies. Just a heads-up.
Some chatter online claims that you can only use a ubiquiti brand devices with these? Can you clarify this.. I want to setup a bridge with two (UISP airMAX LiteBeam 5AC's) PointA will connect to lan port of a google home router, and PointB will connect to the wan port of (another) google home router with google home add-on devices. Point A-B distance is 1000ft unobstructed rural area.
My question is that,why didnt you set multiple Ip address for your laptop ?you didn't have to change the laptop network interface every time you set an IP for nano.Thank you so much for your explanation
Thank you for the very clear video An example, I want to make a point to point connection between my neighbor's house and my house 2 km away, with two different IP addresses, can this also be set up? So my basic access point IP address is my house and the neighbor's other (dish) is picked up and set as a receiver, can my external IP address be entered for the neighbor's IP address? Because suppose I want to make a point to point connection of 2 km, then I have to put dish 2 on a different fixed IP address outside my own network connection, or am I making it too difficult? Many thanks for the clear video.🙂
Thanks for all the great info but this all would be much easier if I were to use the app and bluetooth to adopt both of the Nanos all at once, correct?
i see that these airMAX NanoBeam 5AC's might be a good solution for me to get connectivity to my outbuildings. can these be controlled through the Unifi Network app?
I've been running a pair of XM NSM5 in PTP for years. Now considering theses are also 24v passive I assume they are just a drop in replacement/upgrade? airOS 8 doesn't seem that different from 6 apart from controller support which I won't need. Thanks for the guide.
I use two NanoStation 5AC LOCO to bridge between my house and my garden just over the street. Its just 25-30 meters but i can't run an cable so i use the NanoStations to connect remotely. It's cheap and works perfectly for me. The link capacity is around 600 and I get stable 100-120 mbs per second throughput. Its enough to run two cameras and an Access Point for Iot devices and my Phone or Laptop. Even all my VLANs work perfectly. If you need a cheap solution for an small distance, I can recommend these. The setup is nearly the same as in the video. I like them because they are way smaller and just are 50€ per unit. My only down site is, that the Topologie isn't correctly recognized by my UDMP, but i think ist fine for how well they work otherwise.
I use 2 locos to my workshop with a Aircube and it works like a champ. 2 years and no issues. Can’t believe the Aircubes are $29. That and $49 each for the Loco’s is a bargain to provide access to a remote building.
@@reg_in_sc4572 Yes! No need to integrate UNIFI gear into the mix for simple scenarios like yours - having to use two different management platforms (UISP and UNIFI) makes no sense if the coverage needed from the AirCube is neglible). It's an awesome WISP solution and totally manageable in UISP for FREE (if you have 10 AirMAX and/or EdgeMAX devices!) Love this gear.
I'm also interested in that, specifically if client stations may be directed to any AC side (front/back) or they need to be directed to a front side of AC only
Great video Chris. I have a little job to do where this is going to fit the bill perfectly - PTP over about 1Km. Understand the configuration but a little intimidated by getting the units aligned over that distance (when up a pole!!). Any tricks you could share. Thanks, and keep up the good work
Very nice setup and explaining. Did it on a much, much older Unifi devices before. But the new UISP settings look great. Don’t forget to add the geo-location. Would love to see an video about the UISP Dashboard!
Good Video for setup but wondering how wide the beam width on the access point side is for the station side to be apart to still reach the main Access point with good thru put.
Nice video. Do you still recommend the Nano 5 AC or is there a new model that I should look for? I need to set up a point to point between two buildings that are about 2 city blocks away from each other. Thanks.
On a video a while back you spoke of a website where you could put in two addresses and check line of site. It would tell you how high to mount the equipment to get line of site between two points. Will you share that again?
15:40 The warning text is grouped with the channel width dropdown, are you sure it refers to PTP mode in general or only the currently selected channel width of 40MHz?
I watched your video from years ago to set up a remote internet connection (264K views 8 years ago How to configure a wireless bridge using a pair of Ubiquiti Nanostation loco M2's. In this video, I unbox the Nanostation locoM2, discuss mounting options, go through wireless bridge setup, update firmware, and test the bridge) but it wasn't clear where you found the mac address. Can you enlighten me please.
Great video. I bought a cheap set of Chinese units in 2.4G on the suggestion that it would connect indoor to indoor through a Commons stud wall better than 5.8 but I could not get a connection window to window at about 50 feet I decided to look into some better units and finding your video I followed your link to the website and it does bring up that unit however, if I search the product name I can’t find the unit from this video or any of the other products that would fall under the point-to-point product type. Are they still selling this product segment directly? It would appear that the link you said is not public on the website. Does this have anything to do with the hundreds of clones of these devices available on Amazon? I was trying to find information on the other product. I’ve seen on Amazon, I believe it was the M5. Is there a product you would recommend they would go indoor indoor a short distance where there is through a stud wall or in an attic? And do you recommend any of the Chinese knock offs?
Chris. A completely off-topic question. I notice you use LastPass password manager. Are you willing to expand upon how long you have been using it, and which plan you are using (Or even creating a video on the topic) ?.
Thank you for the video. One question, for PTMP. If you use the "Lock to AP Mac" feature on the the two stations instead of just selecting the AP will they both still function?
I have a Question I have a Gate that has two cameras , Wireless access point (ac Pro) and ubiquiti point to point antennas . I need to separate the camera network from the WiFi using the point to point antennas for security reasons the cameras can’t be part of the main network so the WiFi needs to communicate to the main network and the cameras to camera network which is managed by the NVR I know an easy solution will be to have two sets of point to point antennas , but I want to keep it simple with just one pair if possible
Chris, Great video and timely as we are installing our first pair of GigaBeam Plus - airMAX 60. Are these for the most part plug and play when plugging into an unmanaged switch? There is no other Ubiquiti products in the system so we will use the USIP to do the basic configuring of the airMAX AP and receiver.
Thank you for the informative video, first and foremost. Quick question: will setup "carry" client side SSIDs? Or will I have connect and actual AP (to the 2nd Ethernet port on the Station side) for clients to connect to the same SSIDs on the access point side ? Thank you!
Hello, I set up using the same configuration for starlink to a guest house right down the road from where you set up the lake house in Idaho. I am able to get excellent speeds to my I phone, but nothing to computer or Smart TV. Appreciate any input you may have. Thanks!!!
I just did firmware update on 2 of these and it did not tell me when it was done downloading. Just sat there and kept spinning. After about 8 minutes I just reloaded the page and then it said it was ready to install.
I purchased an Nsm2 and Nsm5 5-6 years ago just to play around and learn about wireless bridges. I know the 2 aren’t compatible. If I have an upcoming need for a wireless bridge would you recommend getting an additional Nsm5 or just buying 2 newer units such as the ones in this video? Are those older units somewhat soon to be obsolete?
Chris, I was wondering if you supply help to properly setup a point to multipoint network for a single location. Ubiquiti, 16 stations to one or two base stations. Just want to make sure it is setup correctly at the start. Is there a way to privately contact you directly to discuss? Thank you, Scott.
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So, I have to say thank you very much. I am using 1st gen NB5AC16 for almost 5 years now and I didn't have PTP enabled and never got above 40mhz, i turned on PTP and was able to get 80mhz and now i'm getting over 600mbs over a line of site 300ft distance, as well as my full 300mbs down internet speed.
Dude, thank you so much. I really appreciate, you, your channel and all the knowledge and education you provide.
Thank you so much for this video. It helped me set up our wireless bridge across our farm's property - we finally have internet in our sheep barn, which let me set up cameras so we can check the flock during the current lambing season.
I'm only `5 minutes in, but wanted to pause to tell you that I dig your teaching style. Very easy to follow. We're actually setting up these Ubiquities for a couple of remote sites at work right now and this was well needed...
The best tutorial I have ever seen in my life. Long live, Sir.
Excellent video as others have stated. I once had to mount one of these to a concrete wall and wanted to point out that a 1/4" Tapcon X 3 1/2" long worked perfect and it will fit right inside the ball through the hole in the center. This method can also be used for wall mounting into wood or a stud through the drywall, just adjust your screw length and type as needed.
Thanks again for your clear and accurate help!
From one installer to another, thank you
Thanks again Chris. I've been using Unifi products for about 10 years now and easily forget the steps in configuration. I've learned not to take things for granted and make sure each tiny step is somewhat understood and followed through. So important in this type of work. All the best! John for ACTX
Chris, your videos are clear and well laid out! I totally appreciate the service you're providing to the community. For those of us who have the bandwidth to dive in just enough, you've helped me learn and saved me the expense/hassle of finding someone else to do it for me. If you teach man to fish... Thanks much. I have a Nanobeam 5AC as my AP and 3 NSM5s as my stations. Working great. That being said, would love to see how to configure the UISP. All the best
Create a ubiquiti account at account.ui.com, then create a free UISP instance at uisp.ui.com, get the UISP key in SETTINGS - DEVICES - DEVICES ADOPTION - COPY UISP TO CLIPBOARD (and paste it somewhere to easily retrieve it in the future) then plug that UISP key into the radios you're using, then "assign" the devices as they show up in UISP to a site or a client (which you need to create). Take an hour to poke around UISP to get comfortable with using it to manage your sites/devices (and even customers, if you flip UISP into "ISP MODE" so you can use the CRM app for customer management - an AWESOME aspect of UISP, easy to build a business off of!) UNMS (the predecessor to UISP) was better IMHO, but UISP has been redesigned to eventually integrate Unifi and UISP as a single management platform for both product lines (will take Ubiquiti YEARS to get this fully realized, if ever, IMHO). UISP is an amazing, free product, that you can even self-host, host in the cloud, and spin up business with by being a Managed Service Provider for your customers who use Ubiquiti (or you move them to). Good luck and enjoy.
Can you show us how to dial in the ptmp connections in your future install video? I remember back in the day looking at those popcorn static ball looking things and not being able to make heads or tails out of it.
Also, would love a follow-up video on how to manage all these devices in UISP. Thanks!!
Love this video. We just set up a similar ptp today and had we watched this first could have avoided a few issues that were later resolved. I sent links to this video to my other support staff as we will be setting up a few more clients in the near future. Can't wait for the next one. Thanks
You are my go-to when it comes to my home unifi network. Thanks for doing these!
Thanks Chris, Good video. I'd like to see a quick video maybe of fine tuning the signal with these devices. I have the NanoBeam AC Gen2 that you did this video on but can only get it to process a 200mb average speedtest even though it shows a 700mb connection for the bridge. THANKS!
Yeah, Chris, a video talking about fine-tuning or troubleshooting PTMP connections would be phenomenal. I've been in a situation, where I've had clear line of sight, great signal numbers from the AP to the Station, but garbage numbers from the Station to AP. I'm also not entirely clear on how to improve alignment when signal chain 0 is low while signal chain 1 is high. the UI ISP crowd has not been incredibly helpful (or supportive) when trying to look for help.
You did not show how to connect the network behind each station. How is that done? Is that via the other port in the injector and can that then go to a regular unifi switch?
This video is amazing. Inwas beating my head against the wall trying to figure out why they wouldn't connect. After watching this video and getting yhe settings all corrected they connected to each other roght away!
Set up PtmP with LiteAP and two NanobeamACg2 over a year ago. Going to troubleshoot our first issue today. Great products.
Follow-Up. Power cycling the LiteAP fixed for one base station, the other was left without PoE when someone else was troubleshooting. Plugged back in and all is well again.
If I had known about the PoE adapter that provides 24V passive from 802.3af, I could have fixed most of this issue remotely.
Thanks for the video!
@@tompuryear Be careful if you're powering the LiteAP with a PoE port of an ERx or ERx SFP. I've found many times, the hard way, that not using a PoE brick and letting the ER's power the LiteAP eventually led to a lot of bounces and instability. Edge Switches on the other hand have never given me problems, oddly enough.
@@seanzigmund858 Thanks for the heads-up on this Sean. Really invaluable information here. Appreciated.
@@brandonbrand2338 You're very welcome. ERx is a powerful little router, but after about a year, it's PoE output on port ETH4 just starts going south and the gear powered off it bounces constantly! I have yet another customer with the same issue - just started a week ago... be well!
@@seanzigmund858 Noted. Thanks.
What about setting up the management VLAN? Could you do a video on that?
Also, I have a EA device. Waiting for it to be released publicly. It’s UISP in nature. Hopefully you will review and setup on that too…
Good video, Chris. Would be good to see a bit more of an advanced video on setting up the best possible link by tweaking the AP/Station pair by using AIR MAGIC, AIR VIEW, and Alignment tools to assist people in getting the best possible link and capacity from the radios. Also, differences between a simple BRIDGE MODE deployment vs. a ROUTER mode deployment, among other things. Certainly a good run down of basic features and config steps to get a simple BRIDGE up between two locations. The Nanostation Locos are hands-down the best and financially cheapest radios for PTP and even PtMP scenarios where the beam width is no greater than 45 degrees (unless the AP/Station pair are so close to each other that you can literally point them in any direction and still get them to lock up!). Also, I'll add, having (or using) UNIFI gear on the CPE side makes no sense really, unless it's a larger physical environment/building where you need UNIFI features for use/management. The AirCube ISP and AirCube AC model of EdgeMAX CPE wifi routers do an ample job of providing whole-home/business wifi, unless the home/business are over 3000 sq ft, I've found in my professional deployments. And, the AirCube's are also manageable in UISP also, so you don't need two different management platforms to see/tweak all your devices. UI will soon be merging UNIFI and UISP into one platform to make dual/hybrid environments possible! I can't wait, but it won't affect me if they don't - just have to manage UNIFI on one webpage and UISP on another.
Second that! I would love to see a video with alignment tips and how to maximize speeds. I have a setup like this and I'm getting only 100Mbps on a distance of less than 0.5 mile
@@rafaelpadilha4511 Is there obstruction between the radios? What models are you using? Did you use the alignment tool, AirMagic, or AirView? If not, look into those tools - super helpful to get the best possible link and capacity. I'll try to do a video soon - just super busy now with summer on my heels!
@@rafaelpadilha4511 Because you have to check settings. And be sure it's not an older NanoBeamM5 19 model..
Hey Chris, great video. Wish it was done in early 2020 when I set up a PTP for our church and had difficulty finding Ubiquiti documentation. Man they owe you big time for the best tutorial! Maybe Ubiquiti will take the hint and create an in-depth video tutorial on all of the settings. Anyway, many thanks!
ah, so alignments does matter just like microwave, good to know!
Such a knowledgeable guy!!! ❤
Spent ages today getting a link going, turns out it wasn't my config after all. It was a faulty switch port! Anyway nice to watch your video for a sanity check! Anyway YES to a UISP video. I have 25 devices on mine and still don't understand how to set up the device locations, Sites and clients.
Hit me up sometime. I run a small WISP and it is easy and ROCKS! Awesome application UISP is!!
nice! I recently had a patch cable go bad and it's just so simple you rarely check that first!
Great timing! I'm setting up a few of these on a local race track this week and I wondered if it was possible with the NanoBeam AC5. Thanks Chris!
Please do more with UISP I have got a wide number of all of the equipment including EA stuff and I need help setting this up as a WISP! Thanks for this video it really helps I wish I can send you my setup but you know how EA works!!! So great that you are making this as I am building this
Hit me up - I have 12 instances of UISP for my own WISP, customers, and other businesses with IT folks who manage it themselves (Management As A Service). Not difficult to do at all. Ubiquiti makes it simple.
Hi Chris,
Great video and my Nanobeams 5 are working fantastically thanks to watching your video, are you going to do one on setting up the UISP, as I would like to remotely access them, instead traveling around trip of 200kms them I need to do something on them, anyway great video's thanks.
Very helpful. Very clear. Can you just add an access point, such as UAP AC Lite, plugged directly into the Station1 or Station 2 to provide WiFi access to laptops and other devices?
Super helpful. It seems the access point only transmits the pipeline of the internet to the station and not the AP’s local network. Is there something I’m missing?
A wireless scan won't help. The WIFI environment is quite dynamic, and what is an unused frequency today, can be congested tomorrow. Thanks for updating this video in 2022 Chris. I didn't realize till partway through that the comment on the old videos were 5 years old! How time flies
Hi - I have a 5 year old unify switch 16 150W, a security gateway 12v 1A Adaptor and Cloud Key Gen 2. All of this is is connected to a 5 year old ARRIS dual band router 802.11ac (2.4 and 5G). I want to upgrade the router with more security and power. I have been disappointed with the Unify access points and routers (access points have never worked after provisioning for some reason and we need them for our large home and garages). What non-Unify router would you recommend that is powerful enough gaming, 8K TV, and has exceptional security considering AI. I use this system for my small business and for internet access for our family. I’m not super tech savvy but did use your videos to set up the system which has worked for 5 years (except for the access points). I need help with security upgrades, assessment of the system to troubleshoot proper set up and correct the access points issues.
Could you do another short video showing how to scan the area for other traffic as you referred to in this video? This was an excellent video and very thorough. Thank you.
Thanks for the video tutorial it's fairly easy and simple to follow along
Your videos are always clear and concise! Very much appreciated! Would also love to see an video about the UISP Dashboard!
Thanks! Followed this exactly setting up my Nano Beam's, worked great!
This was a very good video and I learned a lot. I am advising a neighbor who like me is on Starlink and who might need a wireless P2P bridge to add a house his son is building a few hundred yards away. I had a few questions. First, I noticed you set the Nanobeam AP and the other end to static IP addresses so when you hooked them up to your home network you knew how to connect to them. Starlink does not support static IP addresses like most routers. I assume if you set them to DHCP you could go into the device table on Starlink after the boot and find the assigned IP address? Second, how would you point the AP Nanobeam unit in the case of a PTMP arrangement where the 2 remotes are in different directions from the AP? Say the remotes are 180 degrees apart? Finally in the case I mentioned above how good are these units at linking up with trees in the way?
Thank you Chris. With your help, we are up and running on a pair of PBE-5AC-Gen2 units. You tutorial translated with only a couple of minor differences.
The instructions that came with these things were... lacking. Like, for instance, the default IP address. Couldn't have done it without you.
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For most residentials installs that people are on a budget I use the NanoStation 5AC Loco's, $49 each. The only downside is that even though they connect at 300 Mbps, the LAN ports are only 100Mbps
Nanostation 5ac locos have a gig port and can do 500+mbps. I think you're referring to the nanostation loco m5.
Nanostation Loco AC's are GIG ports (but only if you use a GIG PoE adapter!!! Always, always, always use Poe-24v-G adapters, not the older 100 Mbps PoE adapters!) and they can lock up at 655 Mbps symmetrical MAX capacity on Point-To-Point (PtP) links - I have many in the field like this. However, in Point-To-MultiPoint (PtMP) scenarios, YES, the AC-branded radios will only hit 340 Mbps MAX capacity because they are servicing on a 40 MHz channel width, not 50/60/80 MHz channel widths. The older models of Locos (Nano M2's) have 100Mbps ports only.
Very good instructional video I have setup many Loco M5 this video made the NanoBeam setup easy. Thank you Great Job.
As always, many thanks. I look forward to how the physical directional setup works, if you have multiple stations which are not co-located in just one direction. It would be great if that gets covered in a later video (while not wishing to set someone as busy as yourself any homework 😊).
IF the radios are close enough together, and are configured for FULL power, you can literally point them in any direction. I've configured Nanostation Loco 5AC radios in a basement and had the Stations connect to an outside AP quite a distance away (1500 feet) and pass over 100 Mbps symmetrical, then using AIR MAGIC (a tool availabe on the AP side), get the radio to tell me the best frequency to use to increase symmetrical bandwidth between the AP and the stations, then change to that frequency on all the remote stations, then the AP, and boom - top bandwidth across all radios pointed in whatever direction is possible at the locations needed. I have campus locations with an AP pointing in one direction, and Stations pointing in various directions with perfect signaling and great bandwidth. Using the built-in tools on both sides (AP and Station) is key to making this work. Look up AIR MAGIC and AIR VIEW (older tool, but still indispensable to find the best channel/frequency for the radios to communicate over).
@@seanzigmund858 Many thanks for your generous reply.
@@seanzigmund858 At what distance would it start to require a directional antenna at the access point side?
@@samdotson7297 It depends on many factors - the radios being used, the frequency being used, channel width, capacity desired, the fade margin you're looking to achieve, etc. It's really a matter of what you're trying to achieve. As an example, consider a campus scenario where one building might only have 2 people with 2 devices (a smartphone and a laptop each) and a voip phone for them both to use - do you need 100 Mbps, or will 20 suffice? If 20, then you could set up a PTP or PtMP that only gets around 23 to 25 Mbps (20 Mbps total with a 15 percent fade margin (3 Mbps)). All things depend on what you really *need* on the other side(s). I don't ever look at the links as "maximum bandwidth all the time" but more "what do you actually need to accomplish" as a least common denominator starting point, then ramp up from there. So if an AP is behind a 300 foot thick forest and a station side only needs 25 Mbps total to serve the CPE devices, I know I can achieve that with a pair of Nano locos and an AirCube ISP (about $150 of gear and probably $400 of labor depending on cable runs and how I have to snake the cabling from point a to b, etc. Make sense?
@@connclissmann6514 you're welcome, Conn. :)
Chris excellent guidance committed with great knowledge, please keep it up. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2023 to you.
I would love to see how do you set up a remote configuration
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we use these gen 2 versions with AC Prisms/typically with 5G16 120 antennas - for temporary video installs at large events and festivals across the United States... they are pretty bulletproof... have also thrown in some power beams for the occasional 5 mile + shot... like anything else these days though , very hard to find in stock currently.
Can you show that same connection where both sides have their own ISP and gateway yet they can internally communicate with each other?
Great video as usual, Chris. Thanks! Sort of a dumb question, but these nanobeam devices must "point" at each other, right? That is, the internet side is not omnidirectional ...
Really cool setup and i would definetly like to see the UISP setup
I want to know how to setup USIP for centralized management
To do PtMP, let's say there are 3 and all the nanobeams are in a straight line.. The AP in middle (meaning each station is 90 degrees from the center)... how wide is the "beam" on the AP? Can a single AP talk to both stations?
Awesome video you got me internet when I was only able to get hotspot!! My question is, how do I get back to the dashboard after setup? Mine's been running for several months and I wanted to check the alignment and I can't figure out how to get back to the original setup dashboard! Any help is appreciated, thank you again for helping me get internet!!
Always enjoy your videos!
Great video man, very informative. Just an idea though rather than changing the ip address for the interface everytime, you can add multiple IP addresses under the add option in the advanced options for the tcp/ip properties. I actually have about 5 different IP addresses set for different devices I frequently have to program.
Great video, thank you. I was about to reproduce this set-up for a PtP set-up I needed at my cabin. I thankfully checked with Ubiquity Customer Service to ask different between this and the UBB setup. Important thing to note that this or the AirMax setup can only be managed by UISP app. It can't be managed by a UDM-Pro or remotely through the Portal. Have to go with the UBB solution in order to do that. Would have been a real problem to not be able to check their status remotely. Keep up the good work!
Excellent video Chris. Well laid out and to the point. I've been using UI equipment for PtP, indoor AP's for schools and businesses, Routers, Switches etc and always have had great results. The one subject that's starting to get cloudy for me is PoE. With multiple IEEE formats on the market now and so many devices utilizing PoE I've been trying to breakdown the various forms myself. Would you have a video talking about various PoE?
Power over Ethernet (PoE) & IEEE formats
1. 802.3af - 12.95W devices
2. 802.3at or PoE+ - 25.5W devices & backwards compatible with 802.3af
3. 802bt or PoE++ - up to 100W & backwards compatible with 802.3af/at
4. Passive PoE
PoE is just as you listed above, pretty simply four levels of power provisioning and active or passive (the device providing power is unable to intelligently determine if PoE is needed by the connected device, so you MUST know the device you need to power can take the PoE and not get zapped by the power it's being injected with). Active PoE (af / at / bt) are intelligent and can detect if the device needs power, how much, and gets powered without bad affects. Passive power sources can be used by some devices (like laptop computers) without bad affect, but be careful in general with passive. Other than active/passive, the three active levels (af / at / bt) are based on wattage needs of the device(s) being powered. Then there is 24v vs. 48v vs. 56v and what PoE power source you need (switch, poe adapter, etc.) All networking devices needing PoE will have a voltage rating, so as long as you provide the corrent voltage and amperage (volts * amps = watts), you'll power the connected devices just fine. Ubiquiti has some cool switches (and there are many others on the market) for PoE provisioning, like the Nanoswitch (a 24v 4-port switch - 1 port is PoE in and 3-ports passive PoE out. I forget the voltage/amp/wattage on it, but check the docs on UI's site (or whatever manufacturer you use). With PoE, the devil is in the details of the devices you need to power (active or passive needed, voltage / wattage needed) and the device providing power (switch or PoE adapter) to make sure they match up properly. Considering the adapters are pretty cheap, I keep a variety in stock to ensure I can power a wide variety of devices, known or unknown, when I'm doing an install / at a customer site and have a need for an unknown situation, etc. Good luck.
I REALLY wanna see you work with the UISP app please. Thank you
useful and easy to understand, much thanks ! The only thing that looks confusing to me in configuration is client station switch p2p/p2mp for modes. I can understand this switch on AC but why client station needs to know which mode AC operates in is strange for me
Just wondering this obviously just rescheduled your LAN out, but is there a way to have the station side to be a seperate LAN and not have access too the main network, kind of like plugging a router into a router?
Great video Chris. Love seeing this type of setups. Also where do I get some of your stickers?
It looks like beginning @ 17:58, "Select All" was chosen, then he de-selected the visible DFS frequencies, but he DID NOT SCROLL DOWN to continue de-selecting even more DFS frequencies. Just a heads-up.
Awesome video as always, Chris! I have a couple of NanoStation 5AC Locos that I haven't tested yet. You've inspired me to start experimenting! Thanks!
They're pretty fun to play with - go for it!
Some chatter online claims that you can only use a ubiquiti brand devices with these? Can you clarify this.. I want to setup a bridge with two (UISP airMAX LiteBeam 5AC's) PointA will connect to lan port of a google home router, and PointB will connect to the wan port of (another) google home router with google home add-on devices. Point A-B distance is 1000ft unobstructed rural area.
My question is that,why didnt you set multiple Ip address for your laptop ?you didn't have to change the laptop network interface every time you set an IP for nano.Thank you so much for your explanation
UISP setup, yes please.
Thank you for the very clear video
An example, I want to make a point to point connection between my neighbor's house and my house 2 km away, with two different IP addresses, can this also be set up?
So my basic access point IP address is my house and the neighbor's other (dish) is picked up and set as a receiver, can my external IP address be entered for the neighbor's IP address?
Because suppose I want to make a point to point connection of 2 km, then I have to put dish 2 on a different fixed IP address outside my own network connection, or am I making it too difficult?
Many thanks for the clear video.🙂
Thanks for all the great info but this all would be much easier if I were to use the app and bluetooth to adopt both of the Nanos all at once, correct?
Thanks Chris, can you now switch on the passthrough to run a Swiss army knif for example?
Thanks for the great video. Do you know if I can use the station nanobeam also as a router, or I will need a separate router to connect my iPads?
Great video, excellent tutorial, the only part i missed is how to address the angle for point to multipoint. I am interested in uisp as well
Would this work in connecting two offices, 1km apart, with literally no line-of-sight?
Yes sir. It worked! Thank you for the video.🙂
i see that these airMAX NanoBeam 5AC's might be a good solution for me to get connectivity to my outbuildings. can these be controlled through the Unifi Network app?
Complete noob here, can I use the airmax powerbeam 5ac to connect multiple buildings and use the u7 pro as the access point at each building?
Great video! Would love to see how to set-up and configure UISP, thank you!
I've been running a pair of XM NSM5 in PTP for years. Now considering theses are also 24v passive I assume they are just a drop in replacement/upgrade? airOS 8 doesn't seem that different from 6 apart from controller support which I won't need. Thanks for the guide.
I use two NanoStation 5AC LOCO to bridge between my house and my garden just over the street. Its just 25-30 meters but i can't run an cable so i use the NanoStations to connect remotely. It's cheap and works perfectly for me. The link capacity is around 600 and I get stable 100-120 mbs per second throughput. Its enough to run two cameras and an Access Point for Iot devices and my Phone or Laptop. Even all my VLANs work perfectly. If you need a cheap solution for an small distance, I can recommend these. The setup is nearly the same as in the video. I like them because they are way smaller and just are 50€ per unit. My only down site is, that the Topologie isn't correctly recognized by my UDMP, but i think ist fine for how well they work otherwise.
Great feedback - thanks!
I use 2 locos to my workshop with a Aircube and it works like a champ. 2 years and no issues. Can’t believe the Aircubes are $29. That and $49 each for the Loco’s is a bargain to provide access to a remote building.
@@reg_in_sc4572 Yes! No need to integrate UNIFI gear into the mix for simple scenarios like yours - having to use two different management platforms (UISP and UNIFI) makes no sense if the coverage needed from the AirCube is neglible). It's an awesome WISP solution and totally manageable in UISP for FREE (if you have 10 AirMAX and/or EdgeMAX devices!) Love this gear.
Hi Chris, what about the direction of the signal. It's not an omnidirectional signal. Is it efficient with multiple station ?
I'm also interested in that, specifically if client stations may be directed to any AC side (front/back) or they need to be directed to a front side of AC only
hello, thank you for your videos am from kenya and planning to setup my rural wisp
Great video Chris. I have a little job to do where this is going to fit the bill perfectly - PTP over about 1Km. Understand the configuration but a little intimidated by getting the units aligned over that distance (when up a pole!!). Any tricks you could share. Thanks, and keep up the good work
Videos on UISP would be great
Great video! Please what drawing tool did you use for the architecture ?
Very nice setup and explaining. Did it on a much, much older Unifi devices before. But the new UISP settings look great. Don’t forget to add the geo-location. Would love to see an video about the UISP Dashboard!
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would love to see a UISP setup video
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You did a great job explaining this setup
Thanks for sharing thats an great guide, would be even more nice to get know more in debt explanation of functions and settings, thanks for sharing
So what's the final setup for the Basic Wireless Settings for the PtMP AP and the two remote Station radios?
Good Video for setup but wondering how wide the beam width on the access point side is for the station side to be apart to still reach the main Access point with good thru put.
Actually a Ubiquiti competitor (Mikrotik) have the Wireless Wire line of products. These are preconfigured pair of Mikrotik wireless devices.
Nice video. Do you still recommend the Nano 5 AC or is there a new model that I should look for? I need to set up a point to point between two buildings that are about 2 city blocks away from each other. Thanks.
On a video a while back you spoke of a website where you could put in two addresses and check line of site. It would tell you how high to mount the equipment to get line of site between two points. Will you share that again?
15:40 The warning text is grouped with the channel width dropdown, are you sure it refers to PTP mode in general or only the currently selected channel width of 40MHz?
Chris, Have you ever used the program Netsetman? You can save IP profiles and switch between them easily and save all the typing.
Chris , do you have a video on how to set up starlink with a wisp as back up? or even load balance them both?
I watched your video from years ago to set up a remote internet connection (264K views 8 years ago
How to configure a wireless bridge using a pair of Ubiquiti Nanostation loco M2's. In this video, I unbox the Nanostation locoM2, discuss mounting options, go through wireless bridge setup, update firmware, and test the bridge) but it wasn't clear where you found the mac address.
Can you enlighten me please.
Great video. I bought a cheap set of Chinese units in 2.4G on the suggestion that it would connect indoor to indoor through a Commons stud wall better than 5.8 but I could not get a connection window to window at about 50 feet I decided to look into some better units and finding your video I followed your link to the website and it does bring up that unit however, if I search the product name I can’t find the unit from this video or any of the other products that would fall under the point-to-point product type. Are they still selling this product segment directly?
It would appear that the link you said is not public on the website. Does this have anything to do with the hundreds of clones of these devices available on Amazon? I was trying to find information on the other product. I’ve seen on Amazon, I believe it was the M5.
Is there a product you would recommend they would go indoor indoor a short distance where there is through a stud wall or in an attic? And do you recommend any of the Chinese knock offs?
Chris. A completely off-topic question. I notice you use LastPass password manager. Are you willing to expand upon how long you have been using it, and which plan you are using (Or even creating a video on the topic) ?.
Thank you for the video. One question, for PTMP. If you use the "Lock to AP Mac" feature on the the two stations instead of just selecting the AP will they both still function?
I have a Question
I have a Gate that has two cameras , Wireless access point (ac Pro) and ubiquiti point to point antennas .
I need to separate the camera network from the WiFi using the point to point antennas for security reasons the cameras can’t be part of the main network so the WiFi needs to communicate to the main network and the cameras to camera network which is managed by the NVR
I know an easy solution will be to have two sets of point to point antennas , but I want to keep it simple with just one pair if possible
Chris, Great video and timely as we are installing our first pair of GigaBeam Plus - airMAX 60. Are these for the most part plug and play when plugging into an unmanaged switch? There is no other Ubiquiti products in the system so we will use the USIP to do the basic configuring of the airMAX AP and receiver.
In 1:N links, have you experienced issues with hidden nodes?
Thank you for the informative video, first and foremost. Quick question: will setup "carry" client side SSIDs? Or will I have connect and actual AP (to the 2nd Ethernet port on the Station side) for clients to connect to the same SSIDs on the access point side ? Thank you!
Hello, I set up using the same configuration for starlink to a guest house right down the road from where you set up the lake house in Idaho. I am able to get excellent speeds to my I phone, but nothing to computer or Smart TV. Appreciate any input you may have. Thanks!!!
I just did firmware update on 2 of these and it did not tell me when it was done downloading. Just sat there and kept spinning. After about 8 minutes I just reloaded the page and then it said it was ready to install.
Hello chris
I need to know the max distance between the main bridge to other point bridge.
Thanks
I purchased an Nsm2 and Nsm5 5-6 years ago just to play around and learn about wireless bridges. I know the 2 aren’t compatible. If I have an upcoming need for a wireless bridge would you recommend getting an additional Nsm5 or just buying 2 newer units such as the ones in this video? Are those older units somewhat soon to be obsolete?
Chris, I was wondering if you supply help to properly setup a point to multipoint network for a single location. Ubiquiti, 16 stations to one or two base stations. Just want to make sure it is setup correctly at the start. Is there a way to privately contact you directly to discuss? Thank you, Scott.