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Please remember that, while the hardware is the same, the AyrMesh Hub is VERY different in use from the Ubiquiti equipment. See the last question here: http://www.ayrstone.com/wp/support/ayrmesh-hub2n/
Ubiquiti (and several other companies like Engenius and Wiligear) builds products based on Atheros (now a division of Qualcomm) chips. Atheros has discontinued their old "5000" series of chips, which the original Ubiquiti products and AyrMesh Hubs were based on, and introduced their very much-improved "7000" series of chips. The new Ubiquiti "M" series and the new AyrMesh Hub2n are based on that new chipset. The new Hub2n also uses more modern 802.11s meshing software and has a number of other improvements over the original AyrMesh Hub. while maintaining the high power and long range of the original Hub.
Ubiquiti builds products primarily for Wireless Internet Service Providers (WISPs), while we build our products primarily for farmers and ranchers to extend their local-area networks across the farm. The differences, unfortunately, are only apparent when you try to actually use the two products - they couldn't be any more physically similar and any more functionally different.
I can speak to this with considerable authority: I have used a LOT of Ubiquiti products for different purposes over the years, and I built all the Ayrstone products.
Thanks,
Bill Moffitt
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