| March 2012 Newsletter |
| News from Freenet Antennas |
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Watch out for fakes
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Ubiquiti has notified us that there are some fake products in the international market place that look like Ubiquiti items.
While we have not (yet) heard of reports of them appearing in Australia, be on the lookout for:
- Equipment appears to fail after a firmware upgrade. While they appear to run the Ubiquiti AirOS firmware, when upgrading a fake with genuine Ubiquiti firmware, the device will 'die'. This is because Ubiquiti has added code in the latest firmware versions that detect non-original hardware and then shuts down.
- Equipment that may not be weatherproof. Copy artists don't bother with niceties like UV-stabilised plastic.
As our Ubiquiti products come from the Ubiquti factory - you can be assured everything we sell is genuine.
Rob Clark
In Stock Now
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AirCam-Mini
The interest in these products has been high. We have had a number of units under test for a number of months and we are pleased to say the software is now very stable on Ubuntu.
The AirCam-Mini includes facilities for an on-board SD card.
- Built-in Microphone
- 30 FPS
- 1MP/HDTV 720p
- 3.6mm / F2.5 lens
- Power over Ethernet
- SD card support for local storage
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NanoBridgeM5-22
Back in stock.
The NanoBridgeM5 is a small, high performance end point station. Activity and signal strength LED's simplify installation. Enhanced RF and Ethernet ESD/Surge protection enables prolonged operation in harshest environments.
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RocketDish - 5 GHz, 30 dBi
Back in stock.
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LocoM5
Back in stock.
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In Stock at the end of March
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AirCam-Dome
The interest in these products has been high. We have had a number of units under test for a number of months and we are pleased to say the software is now very stable on Ubuntu.
The AirCam-Mini includes facilities for an on-board SD card.
- Built-in Microphone
- 30 FPS
- 1MP/HDTV 720p
- 1.96mm / F2.0 lens
- Power over Ethernet
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Dual-Pol (MIMO) 900 MHz Yagi (Ubiquiti)
This dual-pol Yagi is great for non Line of Sight (nLOS) applications where there are obstructions such as trees that block a 2.4 or 5 GHz signal.
It is intended to be ued with the Ubiquiti 900 MHz RocketM.
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RocketDish - 2.4 GHz, 24 dBi
RocketDish - 3 GHz, 26 dBi
These 2 new products are both 60cm dishes, with feed horns for 2.4 or 3 GHz.
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NanoMount
Will be back in stock. We have 300 arriving. And another 200 coming in April.
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Tell us of Your Success
Do you have a WiFi success story you would like to share with other Freenet Antennas customers? If so email us the details and we might publish in our next newsletter.
UniFi Performance
While not from a Freenet Antennas customer, we read this interesting post on the Ubiquiti Forum.
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I just doubled the number of APs I had in my classroom areas and everything works fine. I see 1000+ devices per day with 500-600 active at any point in time. Our campus is rather sprawling so I have 98 Unifi APs, however 90% of the load will be on around 40 of the APs at any point in time. For example during the day the load is in the academic buildings and after school it all moves to the dorms.
We push over 500Gb of data over the Unifi APs per day without issue. We are a BYOD school. So the kids are running devices of every type and form. About 35-40% are Apple products.
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Recommended Firmware
Each month we will update this table.
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Recommended Firmware |
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| UltraWAP-G V2 |
V1.31 |
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| UltraWAP-N |
Factory FW |
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| Ubiquiti a/b/g |
V4.0.1 |
Includes security fix |
| Ubiquiti "M" |
V5.3.5 |
Includes security fix |
| RouterStation(Pro) |
OpenWRT Backfire 10.03 |
Supports MIMO (SR71-12/15 radio cards) |
| UniFi Controller |
V2.2.5 |
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| AirVison |
Lastest Beta |
Check the forum for latest. |
| AirCam |
V1.1.3 |
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