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The PicoStation kept my wireless link to my smartphone and notebook strong throughout the property - going through at least four brick wills in the process.
If you’re not yet familiar with Ubiquiti WLAN products, well, then shame on you: you haven’t been reading SACM for a while now. We’ve looked at a whole range of them over the past few months, and we’ve become big fans - each new product is a leader in its own right.
Ubiquiti does WLAN the hardcore way. Not hardcore as in bleedingedge speed: this PicoStation 2, for instance, still only supports 802.11b/g and no Draft-N, but is ‘blessed’ with elegant engineering and the brilliant AirOS management environment.
These products feature a ‘vastly’ configurable default interface, endless customisability and now even acomplete SDK for Linux developers to create what they will of the hardware - pretty much.
And despite this AP being pretty small - just a bit larger and thicker than my USB Skype handset, for instance - it’s one of the more powerful of its type, with AirOS handling the smarter bits. A 180MHz Atheros processor is tied to 32MB of SDRAM and an additional 8MB of flash memory – plenty of room to mess about with a few usage models of your own – communicating through a single 10/100BASE-TX Ethernet jack and broadcasting its 802.11 signal at 100mW.
Indoors, where I tested it, the PicoStation kept my wireless link to my smartphone and notebook strong throughout the property - going through at least four brick wills in the process. The manufacturers claim an outdoor range of 150m, and ideal positioning might get you even more. just an AP, the PicoStation 2 is probably ‘over endowed’ on the firmware side. The interface, however, is so nicely set up that if all you want is a good AP, and you aren’t building a mesh network node, you’ll be able to set it up to do the basics you ask of it - and it’ll do them well.
If you are a Linux developer and WLAN enthusiast, you can pretty much create a custom wireless data-transport system for pretty much any niche you like. The one thing, which might ‘hurt’ the PicoStation appealing to a more widespread audience, might be the single network jack. I understand that it’s one of the tricks to keep costs down, but it means you have to plug it into your router for any sort of legacy applicability. When four-port combined switches, APs, and modems are commonplace, not everyone wants a separate piece of hardware for every different network connection.
If you’re not yet familiar with Ubiquiti WLAN products, well, then shame on you: you haven’t been reading SACM for a while now. We’ve looked at a whole range of them over the past few months, and we’ve become big fans - each new product is a leader in its own right.
Ubiquiti does WLAN the hardcore way. Not hardcore as in bleedingedge speed: this PicoStation 2, for instance, still only supports 802.11b/g and no Draft-N, but is ‘blessed’ with elegant engineering and the brilliant AirOS management environment.
These products feature a ‘vastly’ configurable default interface, endless customisability and now even acomplete SDK for Linux developers to create what they will of the hardware - pretty much.
And despite this AP being pretty small - just a bit larger and thicker than my USB Skype handset, for instance - it’s one of the more powerful of its type, with AirOS handling the smarter bits. A 180MHz Atheros processor is tied to 32MB of SDRAM and an additional 8MB of flash memory – plenty of room to mess about with a few usage models of your own – communicating through a single 10/100BASE-TX Ethernet jack and broadcasting its 802.11 signal at 100mW.
Indoors, where I tested it, the PicoStation kept my wireless link to my smartphone and notebook strong throughout the property - going through at least four brick wills in the process. The manufacturers claim an outdoor range of 150m, and ideal positioning might get you even more. just an AP, the PicoStation 2 is probably ‘over endowed’ on the firmware side. The interface, however, is so nicely set up that if all you want is a good AP, and you aren’t building a mesh network node, you’ll be able to set it up to do the basics you ask of it - and it’ll do them well.
If you are a Linux developer and WLAN enthusiast, you can pretty much create a custom wireless data-transport system for pretty much any niche you like. The one thing, which might ‘hurt’ the PicoStation appealing to a more widespread audience, might be the single network jack. I understand that it’s one of the tricks to keep costs down, but it means you have to plug it into your router for any sort of legacy applicability. When four-port combined switches, APs, and modems are commonplace, not everyone wants a separate piece of hardware for every different network connection.