I think you just solved my farm network problem. Want to get internet from house to inside shed about 100 meters away. Wasn't looking forward to digging trench's. Radio link from house to shed with Wifi inside the shed.. SORTED! Thank Chris. Love the videos and sensible explanations of everything.
Yes!! It would be great to include some info on the current state of the intergration/overlap of UNMS and the UniFi controller. Maybe that's another video.
Agreed Chris! I've played with UNMS for just myself, but it is somewhat confusing on setting up multiple clients. Are they all set up as sub sections under me, or are they separate?
Pro tip: When it comes to outdoor poe equipment and inline surge suppressors (ground blocks or eth sp) use metal shielded cable ends on outdoor device to g block, then unshielded (clear) cable ends from g block to poe - proper grounding required
Chris, Ubiquiti is now recommending not using the PtP settings, even for PtP installations (like mine). The are now recommending using PtMP AirMAX Mixed, then setting the TDD Framing Duration to Flexible (New). This is supposed to alleviate some of the CPU bottlenecks, although I'm seeing only slightly better CPU and bandwidth performance in real life. If you have a contact you trust at Ubiquiti, it would be beneficial to all of us to know why these new settings, in detail, are now recommended over PtP. And sure, a detailed UNMS would be nice, although for my little install, just going to the web interface is sufficient for my needs.
Torsten Vogelreuter - From a Ubiquiti employee on the AirMAX forum before the change to the new forum software. I don’t know if they retained the old content, if they did I might be able to find it again. I am traveling until Monday, once I return I will search for it.
Especially on ptp links you will loose 80 MHz bandwidth capabilities. I also have seen sometimes 100% CPU load without having much bandwidth used, still unsure why this happened.
The ESP is not for a lightening strike. It's for static electricity in the "air". So strong electromagnetic fields and "static" potential energy on your roof during a storm. If lightening discharged through your wireless bridge and followed down into your cables, than the ESP protection will get blown to bits and the lightening would continue downwards. The siliest mistake I see is people Earthing a metal roof, which increases static energy and increases the chance of a capacitive discharge (lightening strike). Anyway great vid, btw.
I am very frustrated right now... i'm hoping you could give a tip to send in the right direction. I have the 2 nanobeams connected and everything looks good. I can ping the nanobeams from the local side no problem. However i can't ping the switch on the remote side, and i cant ping the uap 150 on the remote side. If i connect an ethernet cable between the two switches (local / remote) then i can ping all. Obviously this negates the wireless bridge. Thoughts? Thanks in advance!
THis might be super noob basic question but - just confirming that I would use an ethernet cable to plug the 5AC into the "sending" wireless router and also the staton side 5AC into the receiving router? I live way up on a mountain but figured out I have mostly a clear line of sight to a neighbor's so we're going to do this, except for about 150 feet that I'll run a buried cable in PVC pipe for. Just wanted to make sure I'm getting the right supplies.
Chris, I help out running a swim club where we have the ISP entering the back of the facility in a shed. Rather than digging a ditch, I assume this will work best to go straight from the modem and bridge wirelessly to a Dream Machine Pro? I want to keep the DMP and all other equipment including Ubiquiti Access Control in the front office, but it would cost us thousands to trench for the cable company to provide internet up there. Off the DMP, I am running Omada EAPs that I already had with a separate VLAN for the members, etc. Can you confirm this system will be best solution to cover directly from the modem to the DMP to get internet to the front?
Do you need a separate router at the 2nd point(the place your trying to gain wifi) or is that thing all you need and you can just logon at the destination where you added that device?
This sounds like exactly what I need... I just wish I understood half of what you are saying... Do you have a video for total noobs, in layman's language?
Use directional antennas for this. Idk if the installed ones are directional or not, I'm just saying, that traditional antennas are a no go for bridging distance wirelessly
Hi, Why did you pick the 5AC Gen2 instead of M5, M2 or Locos? I don't know a lot about this stuff yet but getting 1G fiber internet soon in our neighborhood which I want to share to a workshop approx 50-75 yards away w clear LOS and researching what best to use so if you can, let me know if this or something else is a good choice. Thanks
Dear Chris, On what basis can we determine the output power in dBm? What are the symptoms when the output power is too high or too low? In short, a great video! Thanks!
I was hoping you'd go through the process of configuring and tweaking the link to improve the speed. Can you point me in the direction of a video where you do that?
I love your Unifi videos. This is a long shot by maybe you could help, I have two of these set-up about 200ft away from one another, i get 350mps throughput but only 30ish mps real world speeds, I have a clear line of sight and i have messed with the the power levels for a good day. Could I be missing something?
A few reasons - I like the form factor of the NanoBeams better than the NanoStation's. The M5's are old, but the AC's would have been just fine for this deployment as well...though in my testing, they didn't have as much throughput. We've been using the NanoBeams successfully for a while now...they're great.
@@CrosstalkSolutions I bought an M5 and M2 a few years ago to tinker with after watching your videos and wanting to learn more about creating wireless bridges. Would these work with an M5 when I finally do get another unit to connect to or would I be better off getting another M5 so the 2 ends match?
@@pinballsteve1192 so the M5s should connect to the nanbeam ac gen 2 if it were set up as the access point, but in our experience with M5 rockets on an Omni antennae, we can not connect AC radios to it.
I've setup a OOB Network for my internal DC Network guy with one LiteAP 120° (on a huge tv tower) and put PowerBeams on the 30km distance, LiteBeam (aka salat bowl) for the 3-15km endpoints and also NanoStations Loco for testing. But in the CIty the NanoBeam were not Useable, because get hit by to much backround noise at the Station sites and the LiteBeam is half the price. It's all a Broadcast domain for running OSPF in case of a Fibercut. (as DC Provider our carriers had multible ways into the campus, but sometimes two cable search devices from cat find a cable) All of my routers are ER-X or ER-X-SFP and runns fine. Even if the Firmware failes doing upgrade on the MX960's, my network guys still could get into console. (They were rofl away, as they heard the price of my setup and call it "toys", but it saved their ass) So we mostly only use them for OOB access and backup way for Monitoring of your DWDM and connectivity platform
How about one on bonding multiple of these to get a full bidirectional 1gb+ connection, with proper protection to stop the data leaking even when the WiFi key is broken
Hello, I purchased 2 nano beams. I just dont see this setup page. The wrench and hammer icon in top right next to UNMS logop is missing. any help would be great. thank you
I'm stuck with this UNMS key thing too. The new interface is different to the help files. Thought it would be simple with the new cloud key gen 2. Apparently It doesn't do UNMS keys!, Almost as handy as the US-8-60W that doest support their 24V PoE!
Greatest video! Thanks for sharing the information. What would be necessary to archive an affordable PTP bridge connection but without line of sight in an urban area? The idea would be to archive at least 20Mb/s - 30Mb/s between both sites. Is it attainable? What equipment would I need and what cost they usually have?
awesome channel Chris - scenario... micro-wisp. two AP's at head-end - buddy a mile away offers his tower for 3rd AP. existing AP's are on 10.10.10.x provided by head-end router. simple bridge to buddy and 3rd AP wan port also on 10.10.10.x -- the question: is it ok to assign the mgt ports on the two bridge radios to 10.10.10.x or something different? seems like a security issue . tnx
My college kids are now learning from home. I have a separate guest house approx 75 ft from my WiFi-equipped main home. I want the guest to have the same Wifi capability and password as the main house. Been watching your RUclips seminars on wireless point to point. What equipment is best - using 2 NanoBeans or using a NanoBeam to a Loco5 or is there something better I have missed - its only 75 feet with no LOS obstructions? What other pieces or equipment would I need.
Because these setups are so inexpensive we normally keep a whole paired kit as spares at any site we have done PTP. $225 or so for a spare kit is cheap insurance at the customer's data room. We have one customer with a dish in a hazardous area and it can take damage - that was the first place we knew a pair or a spare pair made sense.
I bought a set of pre configed Nano from Amazon. Is there any special step on the receiving end in my out building to connect a wireless router other than setting up Access Point mode? I have watched most all your PTP videos but they stop at the Nano configuration.
Chris, Can I add a 3rd PTP wireless bridge in a similar setup? As in 1/4 mile from A to B, and then 200 yards from B to C. A is not line of site to C. Power at B will be available. Thanks.
Great video and probability a solution to my problem I have that maybe you can help with. I have a shed 600ft from my hoise that I want to get WiFi to monitor my solar. when I mount the 2nd unit to the shed will act as a WiFi extender or just a access point that I would have to add and another router or extender. I see the frequency is only 5ghz. The wifi dongle on my inverter only recognizes 2ghz, do you have one available? Also do I have to clear line of sit, I have a trees between my house and the shed?
For awhile we were using 2 Nanobridge M5s to shoot a single approx 500 feet but the signal was going over a Quonset Hut on another property and when ever someone was in there using power it would mess with the signal till it was almost useless.
I purchased 2 nano beams. I just dont see this setup page. The wrench and hammer icon in top right next to UNMS logo is missing. Any tips would be great. Thank you for all the videos!!
Those nanobeam ac gen 2 are super easy to setup with the management radio. Chris in your experience what is the best way to align them properly? I like to use a laser pointer to get maximum accuracy. Maybe you have a better way to do it and I would like to learn it. Cheers! 🍻
I have two locations more than 150degrees apart that I wish to bridge. I was thinking of the Omni antenna, but I would prefer not to broadcast in certain directions. Then I am thinking of two sets of these. How close could you mount two of them? Side by side.
Ok, based on the diagram, the IP address of the main LAN is basically copied as the Gateway (ending with 1 instead of 0). My setup has its access point directly connected to the modem of the ISP. I need to figure out the IP address of that connection so the internet goes through to the Station? When I set the antennas as a demo in my house, there was no need to do that, I successfully shared the internet connection between the two, now there is no internet. What should I do? Also, whenever I try to enter the AccessPoint’s IP address to change its settings remotely, it still brings me to the Station’s settings.
What could be the issue if my 2x nanobeam 5ac gen2 (bridge) connects well when i have one configured as Access Point ON with PTP off and second has AP off and PTP off. But when trying to change first AP + PTP ON and second AP OFF + PTP ON it does not want to connect with each other.
Can you connect to the network between the main ap and station ap or, would you have to install an ap like a UAP-lite to the station side of the ptp? Trying to get internet from a house to a pool house. Thanks
Chris, thanks for the video! By the way, is it possible to connect two nanostations M5 (using the passthru POE) to re-direct the signal to another location? See, I have a relatively short distance but no LoS due to a small hill in between the buildings and I was thinking of "going up" and then down... sort of speaking... I'll appreciate any comment about it. Thanks from São Paulo, Brazil.
Hey great vid, can you recommend something smaller for outdoor use but only need to transmit 30meters with line of sight that has the 2nd Poe port to add a camera?
I’m looking for something like this was looking at the mikrotik wireless wire. I need to go from a network to one single item on a pier to get it on the network what did you use to line the units up ?
This is a nice video, but I miss more in depth informations. You hit only the small top of optimization points. I always would recommend to use the watchdog against each other and I miss the alignment tools, which were very helpful, using them in the right way to get a good and stable connection. Your video says it's so simple, but using it perfectly, there are many more points to look too. So at this time the video is more an advertisement, than a helpful guide. Sorry to say it because I appreciate you work much! Maybe you will do a separate in depth video of it.
@taxid3rmy how to align such setups for example. Airmax has several tools for it and it's no private customer data, to show them and to say where we have to look for.
After setup the maintenance radio's no longer appears when powered up on my airMAX LiteAP's. I would like to turn that feature back on if possible for "maintenance" purposes.
Solid video. I have 2 ubiquiti bridge devices that need to have the ip addresses changed. Will changing the ip (not touching the bridge or any wifi settings) disrupt the bridge connection?
Hi and thanks for the videos! , I would like to ask, in a bridge mode is it visible the ssid or it is completely transparent and non visible for other clients?
Great video, only question is does it matter which of the two Nanobeams is AP and which is station? I'm trying to beam my connection from home office to my shed, roughly 100 meters away (living on 3 acres). Ethernet/fiber isn't an option as the county regs here prevent running any type of cable underneath a driveway (driveway in the way).
Hello, I enjoy your videos a lot and am starting to use more of ubiquiti. I am trying to connect 2 buildings next to each other. Aiming to shoot a link about 2 storeys up through a double pane windows on each side which are about 15 feet apart. What would be the best option? Nanobeam AC or the previous models? Thanks!
What I want to know, is if I had those, is 450 Mbps actually easy to get, or is that like the maximum if you are a professional and have zero humidity?
Have two of these plus two M5's. Stable link at 655.2Mbps around 0.1 miles or 1,100FT Using Starlink at home I get 180Mbps easily over at the party pool area 😎 Some times see 200 however 180 seams to be the norm over these links
Thank you for the info! I have the M5 so its a very similar process. but I am still running into trouble. and im not sure why. I have set up my access point in building A (where i have my ISP) and set up a station for building B. But how do i configure the router to be able to use the internet? When I plug in the router or plug my computer directly into the nanobeam it says there is no internet access. what am I doing wrong?
Very great and clear video! I'm wondering how's that compared to NanoStation? If I remember correctly you did similar network configuration with NanoStation
Any suggestions for setting up a PTP using the LOCO M5's that will pass traffic from a corporate VPN? Client has access to the VPN at his house but not at his office which has a PTP setup
Hi, I have 300mbps internet speed but I am only getting 40 mbps at the client router even though the two routers are only 10 meters apart just for testing , is this normal to loose this much speed
This is a great video, i just purchased a few of them and setting them up before I deploy them at a customers site, I have them working well in my office now from help from your video. Question it seems that everyone is setting these up with a Static IP, but is it ok to set it up to use a DHCP, mainly because when I set it up at my clients if they have to replace there router from Bell or whomever in a year or 2 when the router needs upgrading or they change internet providers then it should auto detect a new IP if set as DHCP vs having me come out to site and re-setup the IP if the new router has a different IP range etc, or whats your opinion on that. I am trying to understand why everyone is setting these up as Static IP's etc. Thank you kindly,
You should mention, that you can connect to the management wifi created by Nanobeam even with a PC/laptop and change the IP via the web management interface.
even better, you can open management web via a smartphone, AirOS 8 is responsive, and change for example Advanced network settings, UNMS app can not change that.
Thank you for the great videos! Wondering if on the output POE/Data, can you use a device to split that output to also run POE to another device? I have a Bullet access point connected to it now and would like to add a camera up at the tower with it. Thanks
Leaving the transmit power to full for a 1/3 mile will be way too hot. I have several of these setup and rarely have to get to double digit dBm. Most of the time 2-5 dBm is plenty
Hi Chris, have watched many of your very informative videos on RUclips and wanted to ask you a question. I have an Edge Switch 8XP that is set up as follows. My router is connected to the Management port. On port 1 is my PC, on port 2 is a Nano Station Loco 5AC (AP PTP), on port 3 I have a Cloud Key Gen2+ . Then on port 4 is a UVC G3 Flex, on ports 5 & 6 are 2 x UVC G3 Pros My question is why can I not get the G3 Pro cameras to negotiate 100Mbps FDX as they will only connect at 10Mbps. The UVC G3 Flex connects fine at 100Mbps. Is there any reason why the wont connect at a higher speed? All the cabling is the same spec CAT6 and the lengths to all three camera locations is similar (around 15 metres) Also I have a Nano Station 5AC (ST PTP) that I will be mounting on my garage that will connect to the previously mentioned AP PTP on the house. I also have an AirCube AC, an EdgeSwitch 5XP and two more Ubiquiti cameras that will be in the garage. What is the best way to wire these up in terms of the AirCube AC and the switch in terms of supplying POE to the ST PTP and will Unifi Protect allow me to manage these two additional cameras via the 5XP switch in the garage and the wireless bridge? Any help you can offer will be greatly appreciated. Many thanks......Rod
Could I use this to send internet from my house out to my garage set up like this but also have it put out a wifi signal I can use on my phone or tablet while I am in my back yard at the same time?
I think you just solved my farm network problem. Want to get internet from house to inside shed about 100 meters away. Wasn't looking forward to digging trench's. Radio link from house to shed with Wifi inside the shed.. SORTED! Thank Chris. Love the videos and sensible explanations of everything.
A video on UNMS would be sweet.
Please!!! Please!! Please!!!
@@bingram69 agreed
Yes!! It would be great to include some info on the current state of the intergration/overlap of UNMS and the UniFi controller. Maybe that's another video.
Agreed Chris! I've played with UNMS for just myself, but it is somewhat confusing on setting up multiple clients. Are they all set up as sub sections under me, or are they separate?
Please!!!
Yes ! You said the height of the placement in meters too!
Thanks....
Pro tip: When it comes to outdoor poe equipment and inline surge suppressors (ground blocks or eth sp) use metal shielded cable ends on outdoor device to g block, then unshielded (clear) cable ends from g block to poe - proper grounding required
We use this almost every day. Learnt a lot from your videos. Would really like to see a detailed video on UNMS.
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Chris, Ubiquiti is now recommending not using the PtP settings, even for PtP installations (like mine). The are now recommending using PtMP AirMAX Mixed, then setting the TDD Framing Duration to Flexible (New). This is supposed to alleviate some of the CPU bottlenecks, although I'm seeing only slightly better CPU and bandwidth performance in real life. If you have a contact you trust at Ubiquiti, it would be beneficial to all of us to know why these new settings, in detail, are now recommended over PtP.
And sure, a detailed UNMS would be nice, although for my little install, just going to the web interface is sufficient for my needs.
I have not heard that - I'll see what I can find out.
I also haven't heard about this recommendation. Where did you find it?
Torsten Vogelreuter - From a Ubiquiti employee on the AirMAX forum before the change to the new forum software. I don’t know if they retained the old content, if they did I might be able to find it again. I am traveling until Monday, once I return I will search for it.
Especially on ptp links you will loose 80 MHz bandwidth capabilities. I also have seen sometimes 100% CPU load without having much bandwidth used, still unsure why this happened.
The ESP is not for a lightening strike. It's for static electricity in the "air". So strong electromagnetic fields and "static" potential energy on your roof during a storm. If lightening discharged through your wireless bridge and followed down into your cables, than the ESP protection will get blown to bits and the lightening would continue downwards. The siliest mistake I see is people Earthing a metal roof, which increases static energy and increases the chance of a capacitive discharge (lightening strike). Anyway great vid, btw.
I am very frustrated right now... i'm hoping you could give a tip to send in the right direction. I have the 2 nanobeams connected and everything looks good. I can ping the nanobeams from the local side no problem. However i can't ping the switch on the remote side, and i cant ping the uap 150 on the remote side. If i connect an ethernet cable between the two switches (local / remote) then i can ping all. Obviously this negates the wireless bridge. Thoughts? Thanks in advance!
is yours M5? try to enable WDS.
THis might be super noob basic question but - just confirming that I would use an ethernet cable to plug the 5AC into the "sending" wireless router and also the staton side 5AC into the receiving router? I live way up on a mountain but figured out I have mostly a clear line of sight to a neighbor's so we're going to do this, except for about 150 feet that I'll run a buried cable in PVC pipe for. Just wanted to make sure I'm getting the right supplies.
Chris, I help out running a swim club where we have the ISP entering the back of the facility in a shed. Rather than digging a ditch, I assume this will work best to go straight from the modem and bridge wirelessly to a Dream Machine Pro? I want to keep the DMP and all other equipment including Ubiquiti Access Control in the front office, but it would cost us thousands to trench for the cable company to provide internet up there. Off the DMP, I am running Omada EAPs that I already had with a separate VLAN for the members, etc. Can you confirm this system will be best solution to cover directly from the modem to the DMP to get internet to the front?
Do you need a separate router at the 2nd point(the place your trying to gain wifi) or is that thing all you need and you can just logon at the destination where you added that device?
This sounds like exactly what I need... I just wish I understood half of what you are saying... Do you have a video for total noobs, in layman's language?
I'll facetime you through the whole thing for like 20$
Hi Chris. Can the UniFi switches do redundant/failover well when doing a main/backup PTP link between them? Thanks.
Use directional antennas for this. Idk if the installed ones are directional or not, I'm just saying, that traditional antennas are a no go for bridging distance wirelessly
Chris: If the remote receiving point does not have AC power, how can you power it?
Hi, Why did you pick the 5AC Gen2 instead of M5, M2 or Locos?
I don't know a lot about this stuff yet but getting 1G fiber internet soon in our neighborhood which I want to share to a workshop approx 50-75 yards away w clear LOS and researching what best to use so if you can, let me know if this or something else is a good choice. Thanks
Dear Chris,
On what basis can we determine the output power in dBm? What are the symptoms when the output power is too high or too low?
In short, a great video! Thanks!
I was hoping you'd go through the process of configuring and tweaking the link to improve the speed. Can you point me in the direction of a video where you do that?
Can you limit the speed? Example if I get 100mbs and I only want them to get around 30 to make sure we have priority.
I love your Unifi videos. This is a long shot by maybe you could help, I have two of these set-up about 200ft away from one another, i get 350mps throughput but only 30ish mps real world speeds, I have a clear line of sight and i have messed with the the power levels for a good day. Could I be missing something?
Well done. Why did you use this bridge as compared to NanoStation AC NS5AC Access Point AirOS 8? Just curious. Thanks.
Why did you use a nanobeam instead of a pair of nanostation m5s?
NanoStation M5's are much older, much slower 802.11an gear. These use .11ac.
A few reasons - I like the form factor of the NanoBeams better than the NanoStation's. The M5's are old, but the AC's would have been just fine for this deployment as well...though in my testing, they didn't have as much throughput. We've been using the NanoBeams successfully for a while now...they're great.
@@CrosstalkSolutions I bought an M5 and M2 a few years ago to tinker with after watching your videos and wanting to learn more about creating wireless bridges. Would these work with an M5 when I finally do get another unit to connect to or would I be better off getting another M5 so the 2 ends match?
@@pinballsteve1192 so the M5s should connect to the nanbeam ac gen 2 if it were set up as the access point, but in our experience with M5 rockets on an Omni antennae, we can not connect AC radios to it.
I've setup a OOB Network for my internal DC Network guy with one LiteAP 120° (on a huge tv tower) and put PowerBeams on the 30km distance, LiteBeam (aka salat bowl) for the 3-15km endpoints and also NanoStations Loco for testing. But in the CIty the NanoBeam were not Useable, because get hit by to much backround noise at the Station sites and the LiteBeam is half the price.
It's all a Broadcast domain for running OSPF in case of a Fibercut. (as DC Provider our carriers had multible ways into the campus, but sometimes two cable search devices from cat find a cable)
All of my routers are ER-X or ER-X-SFP and runns fine. Even if the Firmware failes doing upgrade on the MX960's, my network guys still could get into console. (They were rofl away, as they heard the price of my setup and call it "toys", but it saved their ass) So we mostly only use them for OOB access and backup way for Monitoring of your DWDM and connectivity platform
Good feedback - thanks!
would love a UNMS video, i followed your guide of how to install via Digital Ocean which works great but how do you update it???
Can i transfer cctv cameras and file transfer using this solution
is it possible to pass multiple vlans across the bridge? the bridge will act like a wire (transparent bridge) or do you need to configure vlans?
How about one on bonding multiple of these to get a full bidirectional 1gb+ connection, with proper protection to stop the data leaking even when the WiFi key is broken
LOVE UNMS... Love these NanoBeams too... we have so many of these deployed!
Hello, I purchased 2 nano beams. I just dont see this setup page. The wrench and hammer icon in top right next to UNMS logop is missing. any help would be great. thank you
I’d like to see a video on UNMS and the options you have for installing. Also would like to know about that picture frame you have in the background.
I'm stuck with this UNMS key thing too. The new interface is different to the help files. Thought it would be simple with the new cloud key gen 2. Apparently It doesn't do UNMS keys!, Almost as handy as the US-8-60W that doest support their 24V PoE!
Hi Chris, great video, thanks. Could you do a UNMS video please?
Greatest video! Thanks for sharing the information. What would be necessary to archive an affordable PTP bridge connection but without line of sight in an urban area? The idea would be to archive at least 20Mb/s - 30Mb/s between both sites. Is it attainable? What equipment would I need and what cost they usually have?
I'm curious about this also. Ubquiti doesn't offer the M900 anymore and I'm wondering what else might I use to get 1/8 mile NPTP through some trees.
awesome channel Chris - scenario... micro-wisp. two AP's at head-end - buddy a mile away offers his tower for 3rd AP. existing AP's are on 10.10.10.x provided by head-end router. simple bridge to buddy and 3rd AP wan port also on 10.10.10.x -- the question: is it ok to assign the mgt ports on the two bridge radios to 10.10.10.x or something different? seems like a security issue . tnx
My college kids are now learning from home. I have a separate guest house approx 75 ft from my WiFi-equipped main home. I want the guest to have the same Wifi capability and password as the main house. Been watching your RUclips seminars on wireless point to point. What equipment is best - using 2 NanoBeans or using a NanoBeam to a Loco5 or is there something better I have missed - its only 75 feet with no LOS obstructions? What other pieces or equipment would I need.
Awesome video, crystal clear explanation! Thumbs up!
Because these setups are so inexpensive we normally keep a whole paired kit as spares at any site we have done PTP. $225 or so for a spare kit is cheap insurance at the customer's data room.
We have one customer with a dish in a hazardous area and it can take damage - that was the first place we knew a pair or a spare pair made sense.
I bought a set of pre configed Nano from Amazon. Is there any special
step on the receiving end in my out building to connect a wireless
router other than setting up Access Point mode? I have watched most all
your PTP videos but they stop at the Nano configuration.
Can I use this set up with an POE Aiphone intercom at a gate and send the signal to another building? Will the door bell get sent also
Hola. Para realizar un enlace punto a punto de 30 metros, que aparato de ubiquiti utilizarías??
Chris, Can I add a 3rd PTP wireless bridge in a similar setup? As in 1/4 mile from A to B, and then 200 yards from B to C. A is not line of site to C. Power at B will be available. Thanks.
Great video and probability a solution to my problem I have that maybe you can help with. I have a shed 600ft from my hoise that I want to get WiFi to monitor my solar. when I mount the 2nd unit to the shed will act as a WiFi extender or just a access point that I would have to add and another router or extender. I see the frequency is only 5ghz. The wifi dongle on my inverter only recognizes 2ghz, do you have one available?
Also do I have to clear line of sit, I have a trees between my house and the shed?
any tips & tricks to perfect align for ptp bult in antena in one shot. Please
For awhile we were using 2 Nanobridge M5s to shoot a single approx 500 feet but the signal was going over a Quonset Hut on another property and when ever someone was in there using power it would mess with the signal till it was almost useless.
Interference can be a pain - try using a different part of the spectrum, or switch out to 2.4GHz instead.
How do I know what static IP address to use? I’m trying to set these up at my house and I’m having trouble
I purchased 2 nano beams. I just dont see this setup page. The wrench and hammer icon in top right next to UNMS logo is missing. Any tips would be great. Thank you for all the videos!!
Those nanobeam ac gen 2 are super easy to setup with the management radio. Chris in your experience what is the best way to align them properly? I like to use a laser pointer to get maximum accuracy. Maybe you have a better way to do it and I would like to learn it. Cheers! 🍻
I work for a WISP, and we use a ton of different radios, but the easiest way is to use the alignment tool in the unms app while you make adjustments.
Would love to see UNMS video setup.
I have two locations more than 150degrees apart that I wish to bridge. I was thinking of the Omni antenna, but I would prefer not to broadcast in certain directions. Then I am thinking of two sets of these. How close could you mount two of them? Side by side.
So 24v passive PoE can traverse the ETH-SP-G2 surge protector?
This seems like a much more economical route than using Unifi Building to Building Bridge....what am I missing?
Ok, based on the diagram, the IP address of the main LAN is basically copied as the Gateway (ending with 1 instead of 0). My setup has its access point directly connected to the modem of the ISP. I need to figure out the IP address of that connection so the internet goes through to the Station? When I set the antennas as a demo in my house, there was no need to do that, I successfully shared the internet connection between the two, now there is no internet. What should I do? Also, whenever I try to enter the AccessPoint’s IP address to change its settings remotely, it still brings me to the Station’s settings.
9:22 - Spooky. Had to go look up what this is. To anyone else wondering what painting/device is, it's the Meural Canvas.
I noticed that one too hahaha
I saw picture change too and was wondering about that!
What could be the issue if my 2x nanobeam 5ac gen2 (bridge) connects well when i have one configured as Access Point ON with PTP off and second has AP off and PTP off. But when trying to change first AP + PTP ON and second AP OFF + PTP ON it does not want to connect with each other.
Can you connect to the network between the main ap and station ap or, would you have to install an ap like a UAP-lite to the station side of the ptp? Trying to get internet from a house to a pool house. Thanks
Need to do a ptp building to building with clear LOS and only 50 ft distance and about 100 ft high. Which device will you recommend ?
How will the NanoBeams's handle rain and snow? I have a few use cases for clients but I'm worried about Cleveland winters.
Learnt a lot from your videos. Would really like to see a detailed video of Air Max NS-5AC & Loco 5AC Long range alignment maybe about 4 miles
What would I need to link up an additional third building and also get a WiFi signal to an additional outdoor area?
Chris, thanks for the video! By the way, is it possible to connect two nanostations M5 (using the passthru POE) to re-direct the signal to another location? See, I have a relatively short distance but no LoS due to a small hill in between the buildings and I was thinking of "going up" and then down... sort of speaking... I'll appreciate any comment about it. Thanks from São Paulo, Brazil.
What is the best solution to setup 9 wireless camera in front and back yard which has distance of 300 meter from internet?
UPS backup batteries on both ends for power outtages/blips brownouts so connections stay up and wont corrupt from multiple on/off cycles.
Good day Chris, is it possible to connect one of those Lite beam as the main and 3 others to 3 different building to distribute internet?
Hey great vid, can you recommend something smaller for outdoor use but only need to transmit 30meters with line of sight that has the 2nd Poe port to add a camera?
I’m looking for something like this was looking at the mikrotik wireless wire. I need to go from a network to one single item on a pier to get it on the network what did you use to line the units up ?
Hi Chris, Can this also be done using UAP-AC-M-PRO? Thank u in advance
Hi can i know why you access point device was set to 40 and your station ptp is set to auto 20/40/80? Thx
is it possible to use the 2nd
Ubiquiti NanoBeam M5 also as a wifi access point? that saves an access point to buy for me.
This is a nice video, but I miss more in depth informations. You hit only the small top of optimization points.
I always would recommend to use the watchdog against each other and I miss the alignment tools, which were very helpful, using them in the right way to get a good and stable connection.
Your video says it's so simple, but using it perfectly, there are many more points to look too.
So at this time the video is more an advertisement, than a helpful guide. Sorry to say it because I appreciate you work much!
Maybe you will do a separate in depth video of it.
@taxid3rmy how to align such setups for example. Airmax has several tools for it and it's no private customer data, to show them and to say where we have to look for.
Can I plug the station point to point straight into a NVR to get internet?
After setup the maintenance radio's no longer appears when powered up on my airMAX LiteAP's. I would like to turn that feature back on if possible for "maintenance" purposes.
Solid video. I have 2 ubiquiti bridge devices that need to have the ip addresses changed. Will changing the ip (not touching the bridge or any wifi settings) disrupt the bridge connection?
Not if you’re changing the IP but keeping it in the same subnet.
Hi and thanks for the videos! , I would like to ask, in a bridge mode is it visible the ssid or it is completely transparent and non visible for other clients?
before 2:23 you talk about station side and AP side, it seems confused
With clear LOS, how consistent is the signal? Does speed fluctuate largely? Also, how does poor weather affect signal strength greatly?
Will this power from a tp-link tl-sg1005p switch?
Great video, only question is does it matter which of the two Nanobeams is AP and which is station? I'm trying to beam my connection from home office to my shed, roughly 100 meters away (living on 3 acres). Ethernet/fiber isn't an option as the county regs here prevent running any type of cable underneath a driveway (driveway in the way).
How would they know?
Hello, I enjoy your videos a lot and am starting to use more of ubiquiti. I am trying to connect 2 buildings next to each other. Aiming to shoot a link about 2 storeys up through a double pane windows on each side which are about 15 feet apart. What would be the best option? Nanobeam AC or the previous models? Thanks!
How can I get ahold of you? My line of site distance for a ptp is .595 of a mile. I am located in Texas
How far can it be between each of the antennas?
What I want to know, is if I had those, is 450 Mbps actually easy to get, or is that like the maximum if you are a professional and have zero humidity?
Have two of these plus two M5's.
Stable link at 655.2Mbps around 0.1 miles or 1,100FT
Using Starlink at home I get 180Mbps easily over at the party pool area 😎
Some times see 200 however 180 seams to be the norm over these links
Thank you for the info! I have the M5 so its a very similar process. but I am still running into trouble. and im not sure why. I have set up my access point in building A (where i have my ISP) and set up a station for building B. But how do i configure the router to be able to use the internet? When I plug in the router or plug my computer directly into the nanobeam it says there is no internet access. what am I doing wrong?
Very great and clear video! I'm wondering how's that compared to NanoStation? If I remember correctly you did similar network configuration with NanoStation
Any suggestions for setting up a PTP using the LOCO M5's that will pass traffic from a corporate VPN?
Client has access to the VPN at his house but not at his office which has a PTP setup
Sir. is this product available on Philippines?
Hi, I have 300mbps internet speed but I am only getting 40 mbps at the client router even though the two routers are only 10 meters apart just for testing , is this normal to loose this much speed
This is a great video, i just purchased a few of them and setting them up before I deploy them at a customers site, I have them working well in my office now from help from your video. Question it seems that everyone is setting these up with a Static IP, but is it ok to set it up to use a DHCP, mainly because when I set it up at my clients if they have to replace there router from Bell or whomever in a year or 2 when the router needs upgrading or they change internet providers then it should auto detect a new IP if set as DHCP vs having me come out to site and re-setup the IP if the new router has a different IP range etc, or whats your opinion on that. I am trying to understand why everyone is setting these up as Static IP's etc. Thank you kindly,
While it can be set as dhcp...in the long run static is better
A video on UNMS would be super awesome and helpful! Yes do that! What about using the point to point and having VOIP phones on it?
As long as the connection is solid, VoIP will be OK. But it has to be really stable.
Another great video Chris!! Question - when there is rain, what is the impact on the bandwidth?
Dennis Gallagher 5ghz is as effected by rain as the higher frequencies such as 24ghz and 60 ghz
You should mention, that you can connect to the management wifi created by Nanobeam even with a PC/laptop and change the IP via the web management interface.
even better, you can open management web via a smartphone, AirOS 8 is responsive, and change for example Advanced network settings, UNMS app can not change that.
What software did you use to do the survey
Thank you for the great videos! Wondering if on the output POE/Data, can you use a device to split that output to also run POE to another device? I have a Bullet access point connected to it now and would like to add a camera up at the tower with it. Thanks
What is the farthest distance this setup support?
Leaving the transmit power to full for a 1/3 mile will be way too hot. I have several of these setup and rarely have to get to double digit dBm. Most of the time 2-5 dBm is plenty
Which router are you using I am looking to replace my current Asus router
Hi Chris, have watched many of your very informative videos on RUclips and wanted to ask you a question. I have an Edge Switch 8XP that is set up as follows.
My router is connected to the Management port. On port 1 is my PC, on port 2 is a Nano Station Loco 5AC (AP PTP), on port 3 I have a Cloud Key Gen2+ . Then on port 4 is a UVC G3 Flex, on ports 5 & 6 are 2 x UVC G3 Pros
My question is why can I not get the G3 Pro cameras to negotiate 100Mbps FDX as they will only connect at 10Mbps. The UVC G3 Flex connects fine at 100Mbps. Is there any reason why the wont connect at a higher speed? All the cabling is the same spec CAT6 and the lengths to all three camera locations is similar (around 15 metres)
Also I have a Nano Station 5AC (ST PTP) that I will be mounting on my garage that will connect to the previously mentioned AP PTP on the house. I also have an AirCube AC, an EdgeSwitch 5XP and two more Ubiquiti cameras that will be in the garage. What is the best way to wire these up in terms of the AirCube AC and the switch in terms of supplying POE to the ST PTP and will Unifi Protect allow me to manage these two additional cameras via the 5XP switch in the garage and the wireless bridge? Any help you can offer will be greatly appreciated. Many thanks......Rod
its a great day when i get a notification that you uploaded a video :)
are these better than the nanos M2
Could I use this to send internet from my house out to my garage set up like this but also have it put out a wifi signal I can use on my phone or tablet while I am in my back yard at the same time?
No you need a separate access point for clients on the remote side.
Whats the expected latency on such a setup?