said by Inssomniak:It's neat stuff but the USB stuff was a showstopper.
It doesn't necessarily have to be. There are number of places it can work quite nicely.
As to the connector, if a person can terminate an RJ45 device, they can terminate a USB cable. It's only 4 conductors...gnd, Vcc, data1 & data2.
I have an application for these units in an area that has lots of high concrete retaining walls separating the node from the served areas. The USB cable is of sufficient length to allow the 5 GHz antenna to be mounted properly, and the 2.4 GHz radio to be mounted where the users are. It gets me "around the corner", so to speak.
The cost of these new devices is sufficiently low to overcome any resistance to using USB. It's just another connector...