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1 edit | SR9 / PCB Sneak Peek Wile the firmware is now in the development stages, this would be a good time to make suggestions if you have them.
You can leave out "Just get it to work" as the PCB was designed with the SR9 in mind and there will not be any power issues, so months of development is already out of the way.
Suggest quickly, this will be in a store near you soon.
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Baltimore, MD | Re: SR9 / PCB Sneak Peek Estimated pricing? | |
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| Re: SR9 / PCB Sneak Peek Believer
I sent you pricing in an IM. 
mrbueno, ghmorris, John Galt Thanks for the input.... It's easier to add features now then after the fact.
Caleb; Yes, that's the new 5GXi board. That's why it took so long to get it released, wanted it to be SR9 ready first.
As for the 12dB question, the first units released will be N-Female bulkhead equipped so your antenna choice is not limited what so ever. You can't please all the people all the time but that will give us time to evaluate the most popular dB range of the CPE panel that will work for most installs.
I wouldn't expect anything higher then 12dB though. To stay symmetrical so you can change polarities easily your already into 220+ sq. inches of wind load area and that requires thicker backplanes, thicker radio compartments and heavy duty mounting hardware which all equates to more $$$.
To keep your cost to a minimum and have the most versatility an N-Female bulkhead version will please more buyers out of the box. When you do 900MHz you do mostly yagis for your short client links and spend only what's necessary to make a solid connection. A 9dB Yagi will cost you half what a 9dB panel will and your still under 20". To do a 15dB grid you’re into 1000+ sq. inches of wire.
My next priority is to see how clean the 700mW boosted radio is. I will post some Spectrum Analyzer graphs when I get time in the lab to play.
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It would be nice if it could do NAT, be monitored via SNMP, do bandwidth shaping, and be remotely configured. | |
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1 edit | Re: SR9 / PCB Sneak Peek said by mrbueno  :Obviously please don't forget to include 5/10mhz channel spacings. And channel offsets...it would be nice to be able to bump the center frequency a MHz at a time...up or down.
Protect us from ourselves, though. If the channel edge is going out-of-band, don't allow that.
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Minden, ON | 12dB internal antenna with an N connector as well would be nice... | |
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| Slick looking board. This is the same unit that is in your 5Ghz unit, right?
How do you guys feel about a 12dbi or so integrated panel? Is that going to be enough gain to be very useful? Or are most applications going to use external antennas?
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1 edit | Re: SR9 / PCB Sneak Peek I would say 12 to 15db max IMHO. Anything over 15db could be a very large AT  I think the RooTenna version will be rated at about 13db, but would LOVE to see other integrated antenna options Also, with the SR9 rated at 750mW I think anything over 15db is overkill. Let us know what you can come up with!
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Looks like you guys are on the ball with this one.
Could you PM me some general pricing as well.
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Oilton, OK | Re: SR9 / PCB Sneak Peek Too bad you guys couldn't do N-Streme. One of the things we are happiest about is we are building a polling 900Mhz system.
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New York, NY | Re: SR9 / PCB Sneak Peek OSBRiDGE uses their own polling protocol so no need for nstreme. | |
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| Re: SR9 / PCB Sneak Peek br_wlan
Thanks for taking up the slack , I don't usually get a chance to reply until the work day is over.
rawgers
The PCB was designed with the SR9 in mind and if Ubiquiti had met their earlier projected release dates the 900MHz radio would have probably beaten the 5GXi to to our web site. The board was designed to handle 1500mA as the earlier SR9 specs were as high as 1200mA peak. We are now finding out that the SR9 is going to be closer to the 900mA to 1000mA peak so were in great shape.
Wile the firmware is being written in Poland I am doing the hardware testing here in Colorado.
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1 edit | Re: SR9 / PCB Sneak Peek said by rawgerz :This is pretty exciting Did you take the 5gxi board and it already had enough power for the card? Because if not you got this all together quickly Here is a seldom-seen picture of Rich...
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1 edit | Re: SR9 / PCB Sneak Peek I'm glad you didn't post the pic of me when I found the jar of Viagra laying on the floor, I couldn't scratch my neck for a week 
Just so you know, I upgraded my site survey truck. I'm not in such a hurry to get home now with a bed on board. | |
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Baltimore, MD | One of the reasons for using N-Streme is that John Tully says they have added ARQ to N-Streme which isn't in 802.11a.
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| How will these boards act in an environment with some other 900 mhz systems? Will these systems only associate with themselves? How do they handle the noise that will exist from say a Canopy system. I am in need of a 900 mhz radio in my repoitoire. This could be the lower cost solution that we have been looking for. What is the pricing that we are looking at when these things hit the market? | |
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| Re: SR9 / PCB Sneak Peek slipstream1
There should be no problem with this radio working within the same spectrum if Ubiquiti did their job. That is more of a radio function then a PCB function. The weather will be nice when this releases so we will have time to do field testing and not be limited to just lab results and calculations.
We will also be handing out free units as we did with the 5G to chosen evaluators in different demographics and climates to accelerate the testing process.
Lutful
Yes, the PCB is proprietary. As you can see, no reset button, no LED's etc. The radio can be hard reset using OSReset, even if you don't know the IP and loose the user name.
I agree, there will be few if any firmware gotchas.
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Ottawa, ON | Rich, I am curious to know if you guys designed this PCB from scratch?
Since Osbridge firmware is already proven to drive Atheros MAC on this board, there is minimal risk of serious firmware gotchas with SR9. | |
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Davis, CA | Man this thread is such a tease!
Looking forward to seeing some results or a unit in my hands. I have a "challenging" backhaul through foliage and in RF-hot environment that I would dearly love to upgrade. | |
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What is this "OSReset" function? | |
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| Re: SR9 / PCB Sneak Peek said by vincentfox :What is this "OSReset" function? People forget username/password or IP address of a radio but it is difficult to bring out the reset button in outdoor enclosures, so a special broadcast packet tells firmware to do the reset.
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| Re: SR9 / PCB Sneak Peek said by lutful :said by vincentfox :What is this "OSReset" function? People forget username/password or IP address of a radio but it is difficult to bring out the reset button in outdoor enclosures, so a special broadcast packet tells firmware to do the reset. However, if you need to do a reset because firmware is frozen ... you will need to do a power cycle. So anyone with the OSReset program could reset these radios to default with no authentication? That doesn't seem right.. | |
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| Re: SR9 / PCB Sneak Peek said by rwhalen :So anyone with the OSReset program could reset these radios to default with no authentication? That doesn't seem right.. That's a good point, I think you still need the password to reset it though. The program is not very stable as I've found out, at least on my computer.
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luftul was not quite correct in his explanation of OSReset.
1. You do not need to know the User name
2. You do not need to know the IP
3. You do need to know the radios password!
One thing I have noticed that Rawgers may be experiencing is it defaults to a 1000mS search. I have had no problems with OSReset after setting the search to 3000mS (3 seconds)
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Davis, CA | Resurrecting this thread for another question:
Will there be a bridge mode that includes STP? Want to make redundant links but don't want network loops. | |
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| I would like to add for the firmware. It would be nice if OSb could somehow include in their scripting, an automatic page refresh for signal strength. So you can adjust an antenna without having to hold the laptop too. Even if it was it's own page for that purpose. | |
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| Re: SR9 / PCB Sneak Peek gunther_01
This is closer then you think
I have tested the beta version of this and the final release is to be ready in 2-3 days according to an e-mail received from Leszek just 1 hour ago. They had the 5GXi version done and were working on the 2400 series version. I will assume my final release will also have the 900MHz aiming utility attached.
Of all the firmware upgrades I have asked for, this has been one of the most important to me also.
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Grove City, PA | Re: SR9 / PCB Sneak Peek I guess if they have SNTP? someone could write a program that could do this without logging into the radio?
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| Re: SR9 / PCB Sneak Peek They do support SNMP, I use it daily to see stats for my customers and backhauls. I just wished that it had a built in site survey in some kind of real time, without having to reload the page every time.
Hurry for the little guy, my wish may have just come true. I personaly don't think "I" could ask for more. At least not at the moment | |
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