Thursday, February 9, 2012

Ubiquiti Networks NanoStation M2 2.4GHz 802.11n 2x2 MIMO

Featuring 2x2 MIMO technology, the new NanoStation links significantly faster and farther than ever before.With optimized cross-polarity isolation and in a compact form-factor.Easy Installation - Easily mountable to a pole/mast with mounting straps provided.The ultimate 2.4GHz wireless outdoor CPE with integrated 14dBi dual polarity antennaThe New NanoStation M2 provides a secondary Ethernet port with software enabled POE output for seamless IP Video integration.POE power supply injector included. USA style power cord.USA / Canada frequency version.Part number: NSM2Note: Set to 20MHz width and disable Airmax to allow use with standard 802.11n devices.Datasheet

Brand: Ubiquiti Model: NSM2 Dimensions: 11.02" h x 3.15" w x 2.36" l, .61 pounds Featuring 2x2 MIMO technology, the new NanoStation links significantly faster and farther than ever before. The New NanoStation M2 provides a secondary Ethernet port with software enabled POE output for seamless IP Video integration. With optimized cross-polarity isolation and in a compact form-factor. Easy Installation - Easily mountable to a pole/mast with mounting straps provided. The ultimate 2.4GHz wireless outdoor CPE with integrated 14dBi dual polarity antenna 150+ Mbps real outdoor throughput and up to 15km+ range. POE power supply injector included.

Most helpful customer reviews 4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Thumbs up on Nanostation M2's By Novasystems Experiences certainly vary, but I place a fair amount of wireless and unless there is a huge amount of 2.4Ghz interference, have had no problems. Again, I can't speak for every installation but that's what experience is about. It's good to know what's on the air on what channel and pointed where at what strength. One customer uses 2 for a bridge covering 300' line of sight with POE injectors...and gets 150Mbps throughput, which is fantastic. I have other Ubiquiti products spanning 1.5 km from a mountain ridge to a house in a vineyard, likewise, great throughput and no problems. The Airmax software is key to successful installation. Also are installing them in Fiji for residential and resort use to bridge. Solid product. 5 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Not a 'magic' solution if you live in a dense area it probably won't work more than 100'. Product not for the inexperienced. By Dane A. Kantner I have quite a bit of networking experience but found getting these to work as advertised to be a real challenge. If you're not familiar with every advanced option in your existing router I wouldn't dive into this solution. I opted for this over a 5ghz solution because the 5ghz solutions pretty much require line of site, whereas 2.4 doesn't necessarily. I had a project where I was trying to see if I could repeat a wireless signal into a nearby facility that was a few hundred feet away, not perfectly line of site though. It didn't work even 200' away with line of site. I also tried another angle of projecting the signal out to a huge park and seeing if I could pick it up just outside there, I couldn't. Secondary to that, long term, I wanted to then put them on my roof deck to extend my in-house wireless signal which otherwise doesn't reach my roof deck. They advertise a 15 KM range but I would have to think this would be in an extremely rural environment where there's no other wireless interference. In an urban environment you're not going to find this to be a magic solution. You can't undo physics of radio wave interference. I had a challenge getting anything to even see these devices more than 100' away. Also, it's not overly well documented (and definitely not in the basic 'how to' info), but if you're wanting a regular Wifi client to connect to these (such as a Windows or Mac system), you need to disable all of the AirMax features (2x2 MIMO) so at that point you're just using standard wireless technology. I was hoping they could hybridize and use the 2x2 technology for the communications between the Ubiquiti products and non-Airmax for the non, but it can't. Also, I was hoping to repeat an existing access point directly. You can't do this, instead you have to buy 2 Ubiquiti products minimum to have one signal repeated. This was a bit undocumented as well, and frankly I don't think I would've bought this product just based off of knowing that alone. I wanted 2 access points on my roof, and instead I had to use one in my house at my existing router just to send the signal to the other access point on the roof. In the end, though, after about 10 months of back and forth, I got the product working for what I want. Even so, though, once I got the two connected it required a significant amount of tweaking. My roof deck's access point is probably 20' through walls above my other access point, but the connection was initially extremely slow (90 kbps~). After tweaking the output power i was find a happy medium where it was both reliable and still capable of reaching decent medium-end broadband speeds (~4-5 MBPS). Initially having the access point in my downstairs was a drawback but now I've been using this in house as well, as the wireless signal from this is present throughout my entire apartment whereas the other is not. Another caveat is wireless security. In their documentation they tell you best

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