5000 APPro licenses for free!

Wednesday, 23 December 2009

APProSoftware.com announces Christmas and Fifth Anniversary Giveaway! For five days APProSoftware.com's server will be offering 5000 free APPro5003 licenses.

The licenses are intended for Ubiquiti devices (models WISP Station 5, Lite Station 5, Nanostation 5, Nanostation Loco 5, Picostation 5, Bullet 5).

5000 APPro licenses
for Ubiquiti hardware

New features added to UBNT hardware thanks to APPro:

• central management via FTP, Telnet and SSH;
• custom rules for QoS, NAT, firewall, and routing configuration;
• ability to install custom software and scripts in /usr/local directory;
• ability to save configuration, system files and user scripts in flash memory;
• QoS that fully utilizes Linux system capabilities;
• Flexible Traffic Manager that can limit a bandwidth, number of connections and packets per second for selected hosts, or host groups;
• PPPoE client compatible with MikroTik systems, and supporting pap, chap, mschap and mschapv2 authentication;
• adjustable receiver sensitivity;
• new, easy to use Web interface that speeds-up configuration of DHCP server, Traffic Manager and many other features;
• live traffic statistics graphs;
• Site Survey feature, enhanced with live signal level graphs;
• Active Clients list, enhanced with live signal level, and modulation graphs;
• graphic traffic statistics, that are stored in flash memory for easy access to archved data

APPro firmware installation on Ubiquiti-compatible hardware

installation process is based on TFTP protocol. DO NOT install the firmware via Web inteface.

• download the installation file
• configure your computer with the IP address 192.168.1.100
• press and hold Reset button in Ubiquiti device
• and after 10 seconds (when signal LED starts to flash) release Reset button
• send downloaded file via TFTP client to the address 192.168.1.20 (windows: tftp -i 192.168.1.20 PUT XS5.ar2313.appro5003v2.tftp, linux: tftp -v -m binary 192.168.1.20 -c put XS5.ar2313.appro5003v2.tftp)
• after about 5 minutes (after the LEDs stop blinking) the installation is complete

after APPro5003 installation the device is available with default configuration:

• IP Address: 192.168.100.252
• login: admin
• password: admin

Generating license file and installing it in a device.

In a first step you need to find registration data of the device.

• configure your computer to IP address 192.168.100.10, and log on to the device using Web browser (type address http://192.168.100.252/);
• enter 'admin' as both username and password;
• locate strings of characters that begin with "Hardware ID" and "WLAN MAC".

Next, in a separate browser window, open a Web page with license generator.

• open new browser window and type address of the free license generator: http://approsoftware.com/freegenerator/;
• in the generator window type owner's data (company, name, address, e-mail);
• on device's Web page select characters shown after "Hardware ID:", then right-click that selection and select Copy from menu;
• on generator's Web pae right-click "Hardware ID:" field, and select Paste from menu; make sure that pasted data contains no spaces or other characters that aren't part of identifier string; example of correct identifier: "17-9b-[...]-0f-85"
• repeat two previous steps for "WLAN MAC" fields;
• click on Generate Licence button; your browser should download a license file; if download process did not start, (for example, browser has blocked this operation), you can download license file by clicking on a Download generated license: link;
• od device's Web page click on 'Choose File' button, and navigate to the file downloaded in previous step;
• Click 'Upload licence' button;
• if operation completes successfully, after restart APP5003v2 software will begin normal operation.

Selecting a hardware type in APPro5003v2 firmware.

APPro5003 firmware can be used on multiple hardware platforms that differ in minor details. To ensure proper software operation and access to all available features for your device, you need to manually select hardware model on page: OTHER-> System Settings -> Hardware Platform.

For those that will miss this opportunity, but sitll want to use the firmware, there's Small Volumes and Sample Unit Purchase Program website available.