That seems a bit strange, my impression is a fair number of WISPs use installer color code as their default install method for 100/430/450 product lines. They want the installers to just have generic SMs in their trucks and they don’t want installers having to use a laptop and log into the SM to set a color code. I guess the other approach is to use the same color code on all your APs, but that seems undesirable.
Maybe installer color code and tone alignment are the features they use to justify charging twice the price for 450. From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Adam Moffett Sent: Wednesday, January 2, 2019 6:38 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Installer color code for EPMP ....right the equivalent for ePMP would be a 2nd SSID that allows for management access only. The unconfigured SM would have to look for that SSID under some condition, such as if no other SSID allowed it to connect or maybe if there are no preferred SSID's configured. The AP wouldn't have the 2nd SSID on by default, so it only works if you intentionally enable it. I'm betting there's no reason they couldn't do it. Maybe they don't see much demand for that feature. On 1/2/2019 6:04 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote: Installer color code is actually something different. It allows an installer to register an unconfigured SM to an AP, it won’t pass customer data, but someone at the office can log into it via the AP proxy and put in the color code. I say “unconfigured”, but I really mean generic config, you need to have the frequency enabled. From: AF <mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Josh Luthman Sent: Wednesday, January 2, 2019 2:39 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Installer color code for EPMP I've had tons of issues over the years, including yesterday, where we had multiple Preferred APs. Having 1 is only a disadvantage when the one AP goes bad with a nearby "backup" and if you're preparing for that I feel like you've got a lot more problems on your hand. I guess maybe it is a feature sell on the 450 =( Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 2:20 PM Josh Baird <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Yep - because manually shuffling customers around after an outage is super annoying. On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 2:15 PM Mathew Howard <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Yeah, I know... Cambium said they were looking into doing that at one point, but it doesn't seem like anything will every come of it... maybe they'll at least do it on the ePMP 3000 at some point. Ideally, if a preferred AP isn't set, it should periodically rescan for the strongest AP, and if a preferred AP is set, it should rescan for the preferred AP. On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 1:00 PM Josh Baird <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Only thing annoying about NOT SETTING a preferred AP is that if the AP reboots, customers can hop over to a non-ideal AP. Only bad thing about SETTING a preferred AP is that clients can't hop over to another AP if you need to take an AP offline for an extended period of time. If only the SM would periodically rescan when it's NOT connected to the preferred AP, and reconnect to the preferred AP.. but Cambium doesn't seem to be listening. On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 1:29 PM Mathew Howard <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Yeah, we do the same. If you use the same key everywhere, and just don't set any preferred AP, it will connect to any AP that key is valid on. We generally never even bother setting a preferred AP, unless we have problems with a particular SM connecting to the wrong AP. On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 12:18 PM Steve Jones <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: we just use the same key with different ESSIDs and have a dump file. We cant go new out of box, but nothing leaves the shop without the dump file and it only takes a couple minutes in the van if its not there. On Tue, Jan 1, 2019 at 3:08 PM Josh Luthman <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Has this idea been left to rot? Haven't heard anything about it at all in a couple of years and I keep thinking it would be so handy, especially in winter time. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 -- AF mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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