Calix is the only good method today for routers and a mesh solution that can be managed by the ISP. Powerline adapters suck and we don't use them anymore. WiFi extenders are just as bad and we tell customers to throw them in the garbage. They cause more issues than they fix.
We have 850+ Calix GigaCenters in the field and are deploying more of the Mesh units. Everything is very easy to provision and we have full visibility into the home network. Pricing is pretty good and we get to make money on it instead of the customer just spending money on their own solution. Sell it to the customer that we will warranty for the life of their service with us. On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 5:31 PM Jason McKemie < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > -- Darin Steffl Minnesota WiFi www.mnwifi.com 507-634-WiFi <http://www.facebook.com/minnesotawifi> Like us on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/minnesotawifi>
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