[arm-allstar] Allstarlink and AREDN

[Jim Kinter Jr.]

You dont need the overhead and hassle of the 3rd 
party firmware just to link 2 repeaters.

Just get a pair of UBNT radios and set one as 
AP/one as client in the stock firmware.

I have a pair of plain M2's, just the rectangle 
nodes without dishes, linking a 3.5 mile shot, 
but am about to upgrade that to a couple small 
5.8GHZ Litebeam's for better bandwidth, $71 each at Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-LBE-5AC-GEN2-US-LiteBeam-Wireless-Bridge/dp/B06Y2JH7PV/ref=pd_lpo_147_t_1/132-2359723-2563503?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B06Y2JH7PV&pd_rd_r=5f53932f-3ac6-4142-b63f-9369d13a309e&pd_rd_w=KA5ww&pd_rd_wg=b6eRY&pf_rd_p=7b36d496-f366-4631-94d3-61b87b52511b&pf_rd_r=XQA0BWMP3FJD08HX3STP&psc=1&refRID=XQA0BWMP3FJD08HX3STP

If you leave them in stock firmware part 15, you 
are then NOT restricted to just ham stuff, can 
pass any traffic, including logging into the 
remote node with SSH and HTTPS over it when 
needed (still cant do encryption over ham/Part95 networks *sigh*).
Example: You are at the other end of the link and 
want to check gmail real quick --No can do on 
Part95 as gmail redirects to HTTPS and is 
encrypted, but in stock firmware/Part15 its all  legal..

73
Jim



At 06:53 AM 10/23/2020, \"Darrell Black via ARM-allstar\" wrote:
>If both repeaters have all star which I assume 
>they do, have them on all dialed to a 
>cloud-based hub. Tell all your club members to 
>also dial into the cloud-based hub. If any 
>repeater goes off-line you’ll only lose the RF 
>users on that one repeater. You can also use the 
>cloud base hub to host a EchoLink and DVswitch 
>for DMR. This is exactly what we’re doing.
>
>
>Darrell - 73 de W8DSB
>
>"In God we trust, all others we monitor"
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>
>
>
> > On Oct 23, 2020, at 00:08, David McGough via 
> ARM-allstar <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
> >
> > 
> > Mike,
> >
> > How far are the sites from each other?
> >
> >
> > 73, David KB4FXC
> >
> >
> >> On Thu, 22 Oct 2020, "Mike Sullivan via ARM-allstar" wrote:
> >>
> >> I'm working on linking two 2m repeaters that are LOS to each other for one
> >> of the club's I'm a member for. Right now 
> we're using cellular to link them
> >> but I'm wanting to find a better off-grid 
> solution. The obvious choice is a
> >> point-to-point network between the two, but I'm curious if using the AREDN
> >> firmware will work fine (and get the owners to let us put them up easier)
> >> and the legalities of using ASL/Hamvoip over AREDN between the two sites
> >> (there will be an outward internet connection from the tower site of the
> >> club I'm VP for and both nodes will be VPN'd to the outside world)
> >>
> >> Mike
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