Routerstation-(xr5/sr5)-ns5 setup questions

[consultech]

I’m thinking of setting up a wireless umbrella on a property where there are 10 buildings scattered across the property. Second deployment would be a WISP base station and residential clients in the immediate area.

Question 1: I see a lot of people asking about what would be a good routerboard to put their xr9 or sr9 cards and very few people(if any) seem to suggest the routerstation, including ubiquity employees. Is the router station not a good component for setting up a base station access point? Everyone seems to point at Mikrotik. And if so what is the router station best suited for?

Question2: I’ve seen many posts where it is stated the xr5 and sr5 cannot connect to each other. Can either of those cards connect to the PS5, NS5, NS5loco hardware? My idea was to use the NS5 as the client on each building. And in the 2nd scenario use the NS5 as actual CPE pointing at a base station with an xr5 or a sr5

Question3: assuming I go with a routerstation or a routerstation Pro how many clients could realistically be handled by the CPU? I realize that also depends on the number of cards and what bandwidth I’m expecting but since I could feasibly stick three high powered cards each capable of up to 50Mps in a perfect world I might run out of CPU before I run out of bandwidth.

Question4: If I only need a single radio would a Litestation5 or a wispstation5 make more sense cost wise? I’ve heard the LS5 is simply a PS5 without enclosure or antennae so I would be limited by CPU quite a bit more but what is the difference between the ls5 and the ws5? Also do the LS5 and WS5 simply run AirOS or does it need to run OpenWRT?

Thanks for any insight you guys can provide!

Derek

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Derek Storvik

Network & Systems Engineer
DStorvik@consultech.net

[UBNT-Mike.Ford]

I’m thinking of setting up a wireless umbrella on a property where there are 10 buildings scattered across the property. Second deployment would be a WISP base station and residential clients in the immediate area.

Question 1: I see a lot of people asking about what would be a good routerboard to put their xr9 or sr9 cards and very few people(if any) seem to suggest the routerstation, including ubiquity employees. Is the router station not a good component for setting up a base station access point? Everyone seems to point at Mikrotik. And if so what is the router station best suited for?

Question2: I’ve seen many posts where it is stated the xr5 and sr5 cannot connect to each other. Can either of those cards connect to the PS5, NS5, NS5loco hardware? My idea was to use the NS5 as the client on each building. And in the 2nd scenario use the NS5 as actual CPE pointing at a base station with an xr5 or a sr5

Question3: assuming I go with a routerstation or a routerstation Pro how many clients could realistically be handled by the CPU? I realize that also depends on the number of cards and what bandwidth I’m expecting but since I could feasibly stick three high powered cards each capable of up to 50Mps in a perfect world I might run out of CPU before I run out of bandwidth.

Question4: If I only need a single radio would a Litestation5 or a wispstation5 make more sense cost wise? I’ve heard the LS5 is simply a PS5 without enclosure or antennae so I would be limited by CPU quite a bit more but what is the difference between the ls5 and the ws5? Also do the LS5 and WS5 simply run AirOS or does it need to run OpenWRT?

Thanks for any insight you guys can provide!

Derek

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Derek Storvik

Network & Systems Engineer
DStorvik@consultech.net


Hello,

1) The reaons bieng that the RouterStation is command line only, and that turns a lot of people off.

2) The XR5 and SR5 talk without issues, and both of these will talk to our PS5, NS5, B5, NS5L line and visa versa.

3) ~200

4) The LS/WS run AirOS and are limited to about 35 users.

Thanks,