[Rack] ubiquiti wifi routers

[Rubin Abdi]

miloh wrote on 2014-08-05 15:57:
> Are they this model or a similar one?  The UAP-LR-3?
> 
> http://www.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-UAP-LR-3-UniFi-Enterprise-System/dp/B005SHQ644/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1407278186&sr=8-6&keywords=ubiquiti

The LR or "long range" ones you want to avoid unless you have a specific
use for them. Again I would throw this in the use case of few clients
with very specific network hardware inside a large warehouse, or a
field. If your connecting nothing more than laptops and phones to one,
those clients wont have that extra "long range" ability to talk back to
the client, so spending more on a "long range" access point is useless.

In buying UAPs I've had mostly good luck finding them used off of Amazon
for about $50 to $60 shipped a piece.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B004XXMUCQ/ref=dp_olp_used?ie=UTF8&condition=used

Electronica Direct so far has shipped me one fucked device out of about
a dozen. Just as long as you test (and upgrade!) them within a month of
receiving, they're pretty good about replace/refunding broken devices
shipped back with all the packaging. I rarely find the "3 pack" a good
deal, even used. I would say setup a price watch alert through one of
the many services that do that and buy them up whenever they show up.

I haven't had the best of luck finding good deals through eBay.

Additionally if you ever need Unifi outside and don't care much to get a
crazy 2x2 MIMO antenna setup and also want to save money, Unifi offers a
method to convert a Picostation M2HP into a Unifi device that's
recognized and managed by the controller. Apparently the innards to the
Picostation M2HP are identical to the UAP.

http://0.starset.net/screenies/20140806113806-Selection.png

https://community.ubnt.com/t5/UniFi-Frequently-Asked-Questions/UniFi-How-to-convert-PicoStation-M2-M2HP-to-run-UniFi/ta-p/457143

There's some thread on their forums about some site selling Nanostation
M2 with the same firmware but it doesn't seem like anyone else has
pulled this hack off.

-- 
Rubin
rubin at starset.net

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