Limited Dual-band AR300MD for sale

justin · 2017-01-26T04:13:40.000Z

Hello!

In the future, will we see a model that supports rp-sma connectors for 2.4 GHz as well?

hymond · 2017-01-26T09:01:11.000Z

I decided to grab one.

Is the firmware on the device LEDE or OpenWRT?

alzhao · 2017-01-26T10:14:02.000Z

@hymond, Firmware is LEDE.

@Justin, in the current case it is not likely to happen. Planing to design a new case.

hymond · 2017-02-09T11:24:45.000Z

Got the device. The added heatsink gives it a nice solid feel. It does get warmer than the non-5G version but it doesn’t seem excessive.

The NOR firmware doesn’t have the ath10k driver so the 5G wireless doesn’t work when booted from it. The LEDE firmware doesn’t have a valid distribution repository (points to a non existent CC dir) so no extra packages for now.

miikka · 2017-02-09T19:11:57.000Z

I was surprised how small it is - perfect fit for travel.

Now I am just trying to figure out how to have a list of SSID settings stored so one radio (2G) could associate to the available hotel WiFi while the other one (5G) is serving my devices. I have managed to get it working with one fixed SSID on the 2G side but haven’t figured out how I could pre-define different SSIDs so it would try the list and associate to the first one it encounters - this way I wouldn’t need to change the configuration almost ever if I just stay in certain hotels which always have similar SSID between different locations.

alzhao · 2017-02-10T09:44:06.000Z

@Mikka, The firmware should comes with our repeater manager and does this job. It only manage repeaters on 2G. No?

miikka · 2017-02-10T16:44:52.000Z

Oh right - it kind of works. But for me it looks like it is actually configuring radio0 (802.11nac) and not radio1 (802.11bgn). I was looking use case which would be opposite and I was trying to figure out how to do that in the command line.

But maybe I will do the configuration with GUI and then just switch everything from radio0 to radio1 and vice versa in the command line.

miikka · 2017-02-11T16:00:56.000Z

It didn’t work like I was expecting, repeater manager defaults to configure radio0 and overrides my command line changes. I think it doesn’t yet support two radios and since 5G radio is seen as radio0 then repeater manager always defaults to that.

I guess best option is to disable repeater manager and configure manually radio0 as AP and radio1 as client. Then in the new location, just edit the configuration always manually so I don’t get the automatic association as I thought but I would get the target of having two radios enabled for different use. With wpa_supplicant it should be possible to achieve the SSID list and automatic association but seems that I would need some extra packages.

Maybe in the future firmwares …

izno · 2017-02-12T02:33:42.000Z

Hi!

Can you be a little more specific about what hardware/soc you put in this dual mode version ?

alzhao · 2017-03-07T14:37:37.000Z

We have more stock now.

This is the same SoC as AR300M

jimlad · 2017-03-08T07:45:16.000Z

Is it possible to order one in or for the UK?

alzhao · 2017-03-08T10:36:37.000Z

We don’t have stock in the UK. You have to order from our website and we will ship to UK.

ymliang · 2017-03-08T22:30:46.000Z

Sorry to ask that I carelessly upgrade to v2.25. And no 5G module could be seen in the web UI. How I can roll back the firmware with 5G driver support. Thanks very much !

ymliang · 2017-03-08T22:31:53.000Z

Sorry that I carelessly upgrade to v2.25. And no 5G module could be seen in the web UI. How I can roll back the firmware with 5G driver support? Thanks very much !

szab · 2017-04-01T02:54:59.000Z

Hi!

I’d like to install packages to the LEDE firmware on this device.

May I ask you to publish the packages for the shipped version 2.243 (Reboot SNAPSHOT, r2805+1-0e62cff)?

It’s ok to me if you provide a buildroot environment, or help how to build current LEDE snapshot with your patched for ar300md!

alzhao · 2017-04-01T10:21:11.000Z

@ymliang,

Please download the firmware directly from GL.iNet download center

@Szabolcs, GitHub - domino-team/lede-ar300m: Fork of LEDE 20170107 commit 8f0dc92 here is the LEDE source code. You can compile the firmware by yourself. To have 5G working, please compile ath10k driver but not ath10k-firmware. The firmware has been included as a file directly.

szab · 2017-04-02T19:22:23.000Z

Thanks! Will give it a try!

unlo · 2019-11-27T00:44:10.038Z

Please, Can we bring this back? usb-C power? would love

alzhao · 2019-11-27T01:18:54.149Z

Why in this thread?

Isn’t AR750 the released version of AR300MD?

Yes, no TypeC when we designed it. Now new products will have TypeC.

sfx2000 · 2019-11-27T06:48:41.818Z

alzhao:

Why in this thread?

Because it’s a Zombie thread - “don’t bury me, I’m still ALIVE”

Goes to show how neat the AR300M line is - perhaps challenging because of all the variants, but the chipset is fun to play with development wise.

I do like the Slate/Creta/Brume design ID’s - and AR750 is basically a better AR300M because of the dual-band and extra LAN port.