UBNT experts?

[Diavuno]

So I did a bunch of ubnt installs back in the .11N era... just did my first AC install with some AC equipment and I've had some trouble....

Doing an multi hop install for distance and to bounce around obstacles. so It will be an "L bridged to an L"

From house to the barn, then barn over to the pool house I have 4 Nanostation's (nanostation-AC-19)

One from the house pointing west for the barn. (250m)
One on the Barn pointing east for the house the house.
The above two are set as station PTP and locked to each other

One on the barn pointing south for the pool house.(100m)
One in the pool house pointing north to the barn.
The above two are set as station PTP and locked to each other

Between the two nanostaions (in the barn) I have a simple cable bridging the two pairs.


Prior to climbing on the roofs I configures and tested eaxh pair. Once installed I and only see the unit I'm directly connected to, I've reset the Bridge to the next unit and on the dashboard it'll show... and drop out.

Thoughts?

 

[zunder1990]

Have you change the default IP
Are the firmware the same version.
Walk out to the remote end that is dropping out and cable into it to see what is on its status page
lower TX power and shoot for about -55 signal level
Make sure that the wpa2 settings are the same
make sure wpa-bridge check box is checked
Make sure that one side is AP and the other is station
make sure that vlans are the same on both sides
make sure that both sides management ips are in the same vlan/subnet

 

[Diavuno]

Have you change the default IP
Are the firmware the same version.
Walk out to the remote end that is dropping out and cable into it to see what is on its status page
lower TX power and shoot for about -55 signal level
Make sure that the wpa2 settings are the same
make sure wpa-bridge check box is checked
Make sure that one side is AP and the other is station
make sure that vlans are the same on both sides
make sure that both sides management ips are in the same vlan/subnet

Have you change the default IP
Yup

Are the firmware the same version.
Sure are, all unboxed/updated/configured in my lab

Walk out to the remote end that is dropping out and cable into it to see what is on its status page
I'm working from the end back to the main building, the last nanostation does not show the network at all, if I reconnect to the next hop it'll show up on the dashboard for a moment and disappear.

lower TX power and shoot for about -55 signal level
As soon as I can get it to hold a connection long enough to check status I will

Make sure that the wpa2 settings are the same
WPA2-PSK and it's a the same, even tried to reenter it.

make sure wpa-bridge check box is checked
I didn't see that option... is that under the wireless page?

Make sure that one side is AP and the other is station
the two wireless hops are set as Station AP and Station Bride.
(the two next to each other are hard lined)

make sure that vlans are the same on both sides
No Vlans, just a simple flat network

make sure that both sides management ips are in the same vlan/subnet
all of the nanostations are on the same 192.168.10.xxx 255.255.255.0
It is an exceedingly simple network.

 

[marv]

you mean NBE‑5AC‑19 ? Because I am not aware of any nanostation AC.

It is not clear in what wireless mode you have your devices..for each link one should be in Access point PTP and other in Station PTP.
Other things like channel width (e.g. 40MHz on APs and auto on station). If I was the one configuring it, I would set both devices in barn to AP mode and devices in house and pool to station mode.

SSID should differ for each PTP link.

Try to remove MAC locks and let them connect only just on ssid and key basis.

by wpa-bridge he probably meant WDS mode, which in enabled and cannot be disabled on AC gear.

If it still does not work, you can start from beginning on site...reset to default, set just ap/sta mode and configure it step by step (using test button is really handy).

UBNT was messing up with wireless modes of AC gear. There were devices not being able to act as PTMP AP etc..but they worked on it and with latest firmwares any device should be able to act in any mode.

So also try different FW, they have 7.2 and 8 beta branches.

 

[0dd]

From what i can recall after having worked with the UBNT over a year ago. there was a transparent bridge mode/bridge option that needed to be enabled so that traffic would pass from access point <-> network cable <-> access point

Hope this will help out some.

0dd

 

[Diavuno]

So I got UBNT chat support to help me out.

I changed the center AP's to "stationAP" and each its own SSID

the remote ends on "station bridge"

30MHz channel width (odd, I know)

everything seems to be running fine now.