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Review on Ubiquiti Nanostation NSM5: High-Power 5GHz 802.11a/n MIMO AirMax TDMA PoE Station with 20dBm Minimum Output Power by Mike Kimball

Revainrating 5 out of 5

This is a great product for a building to building solution

Bought a pair of these to replace a solution I put together a few years ago that eventually died. So I bought them to send a signal to my mom's guest house which is about 1200 feet from my house and this is where the signal is coming from. But it's too far to run an Ethernet cable far. It also needs to send a signal through the trees. I was skeptical at first, but it worked! This easily quadrupled the throughput! From there I added another hotspot (Apple Airport Extreme) to cover the whole house and then a few others. It wasn't too difficult to set up either. One thing I want to warn you is that the receiving nanostation won't be a great AP because it's transmitter aligned, but if you add another AP to the secondary port it works great!

Pros
  • Quality construction
Cons
  • Poor guidance