Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic”

Re:Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic” by labawi on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @05:19AM (#26645085)

Have you tried setting your transmit power low (just enough to get good signal to the places intended, but definitely no more than your devices can trasmit) and increasing the minimum send rate to something reasonable (say 10-40 Mbps, beacons use minimum rate)?

It should help high power bad signal (some devices use fixed thresholds) and equalize the beacon vs. data reception quality.

I don't think openwrt had data rate config in webui, but it does support the setting in the config files (that I normally scp onto a device). The following seems to work:

  /etc/config/wireless:
  config wifi-device 'radio0'
    ...
    option txpower '1'      << 1mW (more than enough for 1 room)
    option legacy_rates '0'
    list basic_rate '24000 36000 48000 54000'
    list supported_rates '24000 36000 48000 54000'

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Re:Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic” by PakG1 on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @10:22PM (#26655948)

This messes with your AP placements though. Depending on your AP placements, you may or may end up with deadspots. You need to be sure that your AP placement is sufficient when taking this strategy. And yes, I take this strategy too.

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