The GigaSpire Max & Blast look intriguing. Not sure on pricing as of yet though.
On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 5:06 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > Calix 844 has a mesh extender that supposedly has touchless provisioning. > I have a mesh box at home to play with but still have not taken it out of > the box. > > *From:* David Coudron > *Sent:* Friday, December 21, 2018 4:01 PM > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group > *Subject:* [AFMUG] Managed whole house mesh wifi > > > We have been running into more and more situations where customers either > have homes that are too large to effectively cover with a good router, or > have so many devices at the far end of the house from where their router > has to be positioned that we are looking for good options to provide better > whole house coverage. We have worked with Powerline extenders, but > consider them to be too inconsistent for wide spread use, and have worked > with some wireless extenders. The wireless extenders have a pretty big > impact on wireless speed that we aren’t excited about them as a go forward > solution. We also can’t log into the powerline or wireless extenders > without some port forwarding work in their main router. We have played > around with some mesh options, particularly the Ubiquiti Amplifi product, > which we really like, but feel like it is not an option since we cannot > manage it remotely. Netgear Orbi certainly seems like a viable option, > but kind of spendy if you need 3 nodes. Cost isn’t necessarily an issue > since customers will buy this equipment rather than us fund it, but we > don’t want the solution to be so expensive no one opts for it. I know > there has been a few threads on managed routers, but this seems like a > little bit different take since we are going to have customers buy the > equipment, but would like to be able to manage remotely. I suppose one > option would be to still provide an inexpensive managed router as we > currently do and have them manage the mesh system on their own. Any > thoughts on what has worked well for whole house mesh systems, especially > in a remote management situation? > > > > Regards, > > > > David Coudron > > > > > > ------------------------------ > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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