MikroTik hAP lite Review

AREDN has recently added support for the MikroTik hAP lite in the nightly build.

At first glance this device seems to be very similar to an AirRouter node. They both have the WAN port broken out as well as LAN on 1-3 and dtd on 4, so you won’t need a managed switch. However, there are some significant differences, most of them favorable. Continue reading “MikroTik hAP lite Review” →

Deaf Node

A couple of weeks ago I upgraded our 83 Fire node to the AREDN firmware 3.18.9.0, the latest stable release. When I checked the mesh status about a day later from my QTH node, the firehouse node was showing up as an ip address instead of a node name and a LQ of 100% but a NLQ of 0%. Apparently the node was not receiving any packets. I drove over to Tech and checked from that direction with the same results.

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