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Orbi software deconstruction
This sort of information seems to interest people, so I'm going to share my *VERY RAW* notes about some interesting things I've observed under-the-hood on the Orbi. I'm far from done, but a good num...
Nice. According to the review over at smallnetbuilder.com, it, indeed, uses Qualcomm Atheros, IPQ4019 and QCA9984.
Well, I at least finally figured out how to see the actual signal strength between the router and satellite.
From the router, issue:
wlanconfig ath01 list sta
You'll get output like:
ADDR AID CHAN TXRATE RXRATE RSSI MINRSSI MAXRSSI IDLE TXSEQ RXSEQ CAPS ACAPS ERP STATE MAXRATE(DOT11) HTCAPS ASSOCTIME IEs MODE PSMODE aa:04:60:17:35:8f 1 4 192M 192M 43 38 48 0 0 65535 EPSs 0 f 0 APM 06:51:15 RSN WME IEEE80211_MODE_11NG_HT20 0
Would be kind of useful to expose some of it in the UI. :P
Note you can derive -dBm from Atheros RSSI by subtracting 95 from the value.
Rodney
rhester72 wrote:Well, I at least finally figured out how to see the actual signal strength between the router and satellite.
From the router, issue:
wlanconfig ath01 list sta
You'll get output like:
ADDR AID CHAN TXRATE RXRATE RSSI MINRSSI MAXRSSI IDLE TXSEQ RXSEQ CAPS ACAPS ERP STATE MAXRATE(DOT11) HTCAPS ASSOCTIME IEs MODE PSMODE aa:04:60:17:35:8f 1 4 192M 192M 43 38 48 0 0 65535 EPSs 0 f 0 APM 06:51:15 RSN WME IEEE80211_MODE_11NG_HT20 0
Would be kind of useful to expose some of it in the UI. :P
Note you can derive -dBm from Atheros RSSI by subtracting 95 from the value.
Rodney
pretty sure you are looking at the 2.4 gig there not the backhaul , the last bit suggest it is
MODE_11NG_HT20
as if the tx and rx where only 192M the backhaul wouldnt be usable
now if you want to di , try and find out how the backhaul is connected and if you can manage to get a standard client to connect to it
prob best however not post it or anything else here as the mods might get a bit narky if you expose too much of the under the hood stuff , doesnt mean you cant start your own blog and do your own project :)
Right you are - will correct the example and output. (Ironically, the MAC matches what's displayed in the UI associated with the satellite - which is _not_ correct!)
I know how the (wifi) backhaul is connected, and yes, you can connect a standard client to it - all you need is the hidden SSID (last two digits are "unique") and the password (which is random and better done by copy/paste than trying to hand-enter, though presumably you could override it). It would be quite trivial to convert backhaul to another legitimate standard SSID, but would not be persistent across reboots.
Rodney
Wow - I can neither edit or reply "historical" posts. That sucks.
Correction from the above post.
Well, I at least finally figured out how to see the actual signal strength between the router and satellite.
From the router, issue:
wlanconfig ath2 list sta
You'll get output like:
ADDR AID CHAN TXRATE RXRATE RSSI MINRSSI MAXRSSI IDLE TXSEQ RXSEQ CAPS ACAPS ERP STATE MAXRATE(DOT11) HTCAPS ASSOCTIME IEs MODE PSMODE a0:04:60:17:35:92 1 157 1053M 1053M 31 0 42 0 0 65535 EPs 0 b 0 AWPSM 07:37:51 RSN WME IEEE80211_MODE_11AC_VHT80 0
Note you can derive -dBm from Atheros RSSI by subtracting 95 from the value.
Rodney
