Ubiquiti Networks Networks Networks 2.4GHz Nano Mimo Airmax

Can I give this six stars? Ten? We have a barn some 300 feet from the house. It has no power. We want to use wifi there. After much research, I found the Ubiquiti products. Basically, it's a mighty radio. Hook it to your network via an Ethernet cable and it makes you a broadcaster. Configure as a hot spot (access point) and you have wifi many hundreds of feet away. It's directional but is so powerful that I am getting the signal all around the house as well as at the barn and inside the barn. Running Speedtest, I got tons of bandwidth. (They have non-directional products in case you need to blanket an area, and these devices can be networked so that you can cover any facility (this is how stadiums and office buildings are networked). Plus: - OMG, does this work well. Blasting signal everywhere. - Quality: Beautifully made and attractive - Can mount indoors or out. - Includes Power Over Ethernet. You hook your router to a supplied power box which has a power cord; then you plug a long Ethernet cable into the other port on the power box and it goes to the Nanostation, which only needs the one Ethernet cable. Minus: Configuration is not for everyone. Pretty technical. But that's a consequence of how flexible these devices are, and there are many online guides and videos from Ubiquiti and others; and their online support is terrific. If your need is covered by one of the videos or online guides, just go step by step. While I am fairly experienced in IT and networking matters, I failed when I did it without a guide (some arcane settings -- in my case bandwidth had to be set to 20 MHz because most phones, iPads, etc. do not support the 40 MHz default. There were some other hard to guess settings.) A final shout-out to their online support, which I pestered several times before purchase. Their product line is very complex and it took a while to determine what would meet my needs. But they have the experts and gave me my answer. Rock solid, high-performance solution if you need a super-strong wifi signal.

This is a 5-star radio that I rate 1-star for the following reason. I have configured and installed over 2 dozen of these radios and they are fantastic. They operate very well and are a terrific value, which is why I will likely continue to purchase and deploy them. That being said, if one of your reasons to purchase them is their warranty and/or after sales service / RMA support, do yourself a favor and look elsewhere. The words 'Ubiquiti' and 'responsive support' don't belong in the same sentence. I had one of two NSM2's that I purchased through amazon fail after 8 months of service. On Saturday, April 30th I filled out their online RMA request form and received an e-mail acknowledgement of my submittal which read "...Thank you for submitting an RMA with Ubiquiti Networks. Your RMA is now in the process of being approved by the Ubiquiti RMA team. Typical approval time is within 2 business days. If you haven't heard anything about your RMA after this time, please send an email to [...] and we will check on the status for you. All the best, Ubiquiti Networks" . When I had received no more contact from them 5 business days later on Friday May 6th, I e-mailed them at the supplied e-mail address and inquired about the status. On Monday May 9th I filled out a form on the Sales Dept. page stating lack of response from the RMA folks. Their own Sales Dept. forwarded my concern that day to their RMA section asking them to 'please assist' and CC'ed me. On Wednesday May 11th, 8 business days after my initial April 30th request, I filled out the RMA form a second time and in the description of the problem I stated that I lacked a response from my initial 4/30 RMA request (no RMA number, no address to ship to, etc.). Again I received the acknowlegement which read "...Thank you for submitting an RMA with Ubiquiti Networks, yada, yada, yada, blah, blah....". So there you go. Bear in mind this could have been a unit that was DOA instead of 8 months old and the same level of response from Ubiquiti for an RMA could have happened. Hey, I could market a radio with a lifetime warranty but if I never respond to RMA requests I could make even more profit! In summary, buy it for value, not for support after sales. Ignore their warranty, after all, Ubiquiti Support does. Heck, they even ignore their own Sales Dept. ! Good luck if you purchase a Ubiquiti product....you're on your own if it ever fails while it's 'in warranty'. UPDATE: Sat. 5/14/16: On Thurs. 5/12/16 I finally received an e-mail from Ubiquiti Support with my RMA info, 9 business days, a couple of e-mails and 1 re-submission after my initial request. They said my request was approved on 5/2 and to 'check my spam filter'. I replied that no such replies from them existed in my spam folder either and that this was first contact I had received from them since the beginning. Who knows? Anyway, I shipped the unit on 5/12 and the USPS is to deliver it on Sat. 5/14. I'll keep you posted how the RMA process plays out. UPDATE: Fri. 6/3/16: On Wed. 6/1/16, 3 weeks after I shipped the defective one to them, I received a brand new NSM2 to replace the defective one, a rapid and positive response to my RMA. Way to go, Ubiquiti! I have no immediate need to install it, but will say this: hopefully my week of frustration trying to get an RMA is not typical and has been addressed. I am still a big fan of the company and their products, so I plan to upgrade my initial rating from 1 star to 5.

What a great product! I run avery large network and up until now all of my wireless back-hauls have been with equipment from the largest companies in the business and most expensive equipment on the market, (10-25 times the cost of this entire solution). I will not do this anymore We first tried this product on a mission trip in the Caicos to remotely connect the only Christian radio station in the area. At the time we chose it based a few good review from colleagues but primarily it was the price that encouraged us to take a chance. I am glad we did! This was a simple install and it went perfectly. It is still going nearly two years later. It worked so well there that we ordered a pair for a mission critical link for our Agency and I am very pleased with this product. The documentation that came with it is light but the online WIKI is terrific. I have a rather advanced network and intall need for this so i ended up calling support. I had to wait on a call back, random not scheduled. It did not take to long and the gentleman I got was courteous though we very quickly got to deep for his knowledge. I found it difficult to get escalated to amore knowledgable tech however the information he was able to give me explaining how the unit behaves relative to certain settings gave me enough info to figure it out on my own. The equipment is great, the software interface is fantastic! Worth far more than I paid for this product. It was very easy to get a basic configuration up. A little more complicated to pass VLANS and Trunk etc. But all in all a great experience. I went with the Winegaurd J tube Mount and it worked OK but the tube bracket on the back of the Untit is slightly smaller than the diameter of most generic mounts so you may want to order the one from Ubiquiti if your looking for a perfect fit. I will use this product again and so should you!

We use this station to receive a signal sent from about 900 feet away (transmitter does not broadcast signal through a wooded area). We then use a cable from this antenna to a router (Netgear) inside our house. This setup consistently provides a Ping of 28 ms and a download speed of over 16 mbps. Not too much different from where the signal comes from the Time Warner Cable. Although it works well, Setting this up for my situation required considerable knowledge of both the nanostation and the Time Warner signal delivery. A friend with knowledge assisted me in this setup. Without him, I could not have set up the system. Also, a first attempt at mounting this antenna resulted in the unit filling with water during a torrential rain. Many previous lighter rains had not been a problem. But the torrential rain knocked out the antenna for a while while it dried and it had to be reset and reprogrammed with the above settings after it started working again. I put it up the second time inside a waterproof shelter. Despite that I would buy this again.

I bought this years ago and writing this after I used it for two years until I no longer meeded them. They are the older gen products so you may want to consider buying a newer generations. I am writing this per my experience when this gen product wasnt that old. It was one of the best purchases that I made and it paid for itself very quickly. I had done a bunch of experiments with cantennas or advanced FIY antennas to boost my oldschool wifi routers signal to reach across the street so I would't have to get internet for two different addresses, and none of the DIY options worked well. I should add that I am an Electrical Engineer and years ago had even taken antenna design classes, so I wasn't just guess working the DIY antennas. This thing just worked out of the box, and made me realize I wasted too much time trying to make something that I could have had up and running much sooner. Even though it is considered a professional product, if you are somewhat techy you wouldn't have a hard time doing the software configuration for Ubiquity products like this. The nice thing is that it made me realize how much professional products are better than consumer products in Electronic stores. I would definitely look at other stuff that Ubiquity has next time I need some kind of wirelss equipment. Check to make sure they have what you need though. Also, it is basically an advance wifi router with better hardware quality and additional consumer hardware features and much more capable firmware/software.

I initially used a pair of the NSM5 trying to transfer our 108mbps connection. It goes through about 3-4 walls with drywall / wood siding possibly some trees. The NSM5s did work but the signal strength hovered between 2-3 bars. Signal strength was -76 to -80 which is not super great. The speed test resulted in 24mbps on a good day. I bought another pair of the NSM2s since I read it works better with obstacles. Out of the box, I noticed the signal strength was at 4 bars no matter which way they faced.. When I took it to the remote location, I was impressed that the signal strength was 4 bars. Did a speed test and it gave me 92mbps. Based on my little experiment, I would say the NSM5 may be better if you have a clear line of sight as in a long pole clearing all the obstacles in the way. The NSM2 is better with obstacles. The cable company told me it would cost $5000 to run a line to the other house and it would take 2 months and I will have to pay them $60 per month after that. For $170 total investment, this can't be beaten. It also is more secure in a way that robbers can't cut the cable or phone line to disable all your security cameras. Highly recommended!!! Edit: I discovered that the default signal strength was 28dbm which is the highest level available. It also radiates the most power at about 600mw. FCC limits indoor antennas to 100mw. The good news is that reducing the signal strength by 3db cuts the power in half so by reducing the signal strength to 17dbm, I should be in the 50mw range which is half of the FCC max. I can also go another 3db up but since it is in a bedroom, I chose to be a little on the safe side. How did impact the signal?? On a clear day, I was able to get 75mbps which is not bad and when I tried it on a rainy day, I got about 45 mbps which is also not bad. My criterion is that I would be able to watch 2 netflix streams and with 45mbps, those can be 4k streams if I want to. EDIT: IMPORTANT TIP If you don't have your unit next to a window like I did, I used a wifi extender with an ethernet port to install the unit next to a window... The difference was night and day.. The connection speed now is up to 85mbps and it is raining outside.. Before I used the extender when it was going through the two walls, I was getting 30mbps.. It also helped me reduce the radiation which was the main reason I moved it..

My house is located in such a manner that Comcast is unwilling (due to lack of interest or poor customer service - I leave that up to you) to bring cable into my house. My only choices for internet are DSL or satellite. Satellite has such poor reviews online that I shied away from it. That left DSL. Well we have had DSL for 10 years - at a blazing 1.5 mb/sec - in other words third world internet. After long discussions with Century Link it became obvious that they had NO intention of improving my situation. Then my son purchased a house about 600 feet from my house. He had high speed internet. So we decided to try the Ubiquiti Nanostation to set up a wireless bridge between his house and my house. My house is hidden from his by another house and heavily treed property. To my absolute amazement the wireless bridge performed flawlessly - was easy to set up and now provides me with 40 mb/sec internet. All this was achieved by simply putting one unit in his 1st floor living room window and the receiver on the roof of my deck. Once we set his unit on the roof of his house the signal strength would be even better. Thank you Ubiquiti! I now have decent internet when I was at the point of believing that I never would. Highly, highly recommended.

Excellent product very good quality and works 100% I give it 100 out of 10 this product exceeded my expectations