That would be great, we use cambium routers, but customers constantly have coverage issues in their house and even though best buy carries power line stuff they always sell them an 88 dollar garbage nighthawk. Id like to just have a cheap solution to get them into
On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 3:29 PM Mathew Howard <[email protected]> wrote: > I just got some... it seems like a good idea, but I'm not quite sure how > we'd use them yet. > > If you already have another Mikrotik router, using RoMON to manage them > could be an option. > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 9:56 AM Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Anybody else evaluating or using these? >> >> >> >> They are smaller than I thought from the brochure photo, which is good. >> I worry a bit about customers pressing the little buttons though, you know >> how customers love to push buttons, plus you could accidentally push a >> button while plugging the unit into a wall outlet. >> >> >> >> The instructions aren’t correct, it doesn’t have an IP address of >> 192.168.88.1 by default, it is set up as a bridge with a DHCP client and >> nothing else. You can access it from Winbox by MAC address, or I guess you >> can connect it behind a router and let it get an IP address via DHCP. >> >> >> >> How are people setting these up? Our intent is to use them where the >> customer already has a leased, managed Mikrotik router from us and they >> have WiFi deadspots but don’t want any cables run. But if we’re supplying >> it as part of a managed service (we bite the bullet on the cost if there is >> a WiFi coverage problem within the house), then I want to be able to >> monitor and manage the router and any powerline APs remotely. Winbox via >> MAC address would not seem adequate. I guess we could give each powerline >> device an identity which I assume will show up as the hostname in the >> router DHCP server and then we could temporarily put in a port forward to >> access them remotely. Or we could assign them static IP addresses like >> 192.168.88.2 and 192.168.88.3 which is how we handle PTP links and routers >> behind a customer router. >> >> >> >> If we just leave them as a bridge with a DHCP client, they technically >> don’t need configuration, you can just push the Sync buttons to pair them. >> But like any newly released device I think we’re going to want to upgrade >> the firmware at which point we can change the configuration if we want to, >> at least set System/Identity and maybe IP address. >> -- >> 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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