Our contracted phone answerers literally just told one of our customers they needed a higher speed connection to have a mesh system in their house.
They're lucky I can't reach through tickets and choke people On Fri, Dec 21, 2018, 7:54 PM Ken Hohhof <[email protected] wrote: > I’m OK with 2.4 only and 1.5 dBi antenna. Preorder means who knows when > it will actually be available. WiFi at router end seems redundant, Netgear > kit has WiFi at one end only. Mode button looks like something for > customer to push and mess up the config. Price looks right. > > > > *From:* AF <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *Mike Meluskey > *Sent:* Friday, December 21, 2018 6:20 PM > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Managed whole house mesh wifi > > > > 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? > > Sent from my iPhone > > > 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 > > > > > > -- > 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 >
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