I buy direct. I think that is how they do it with everyone. Sent from my iPhone
> On Dec 22, 2018, at 6:20 PM, David Coudron <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Where do you purchase the Calix equipment from? Our typical sources don’t > seem to carry them (Streakwave, Winncom, ISPSupplies, Linktechs, etc. Are > you purchasing direct from Calix? > > Regards, > > David Coudron > > > From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Darin Steffl > Sent: Friday, December 21, 2018 5:34 PM > To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Managed whole house mesh wifi > > 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 > Like us on Facebook > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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