Mikrotik just came out with a Powerline adaptor:
https://mikrotik.com/product/pwr_line_ap_us_plug#fndtn-gallery
That should give us the visibility we all want in Powerline wifi
Mike Meluskey
Broadband VI
On 21 Dec 2018, at 20:15, Chuck McCown wrote:
Why coax and not cat5 cameras?
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On Dec 21, 2018, at 4:56 PM, Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote:
I am running into a lot of customers insisting on putting cheap WiFi
cameras outside their metal buildings and expecting their WiFi to
work on the other side of the Faraday cage. I think the right answer
is “don’t do that”, but they don’t listen. I don’t think
any of the solutions being discussed in this thread really addresses
this problem. I do realize most ISPs don’t have a customer base
where it is normal to have a metal pole building as a maintenance
shop, barn, man cave, etc.
I convinced one customer to call a CCTV company, which came out and
installed wired (coax) analog cameras connected to an indoor network
DVR with an Internet connection. That also eliminated the problem of
each camera constantly streaming upstream video to a cloud DVR, the
customer gets alerts and can remote into the DVR from his phone and
view current or locally stored video. And he doesn’t have to pay a
monthly fee for the cloud DVR. It’s amazing how when you “call
the guy” and pay a few bucks, rather than getting a cheap Chinese
DIY solution at Costco, it ends up being done right.
From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of David Coudron
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2018 5:01 PM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]>
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
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