The Lite on ePMP is great. Get a $540 AP for $285. A lot of people are using them in low density areas... or areas where they use a bunch of horns for better RF conditions. It does cost more that way if you do upgrade it, but most bank on not ever needing to upgrade.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Hohhof" <[email protected]> To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 1, 2019 10:36:37 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Friday Thoughts OK, I didn’t know ePMP had Lites. I thought Cambium had learned their lesson about license keys and didn’t do it on ePMP, which I guess is true as far as capacity keys. From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Mathew Howard Sent: Friday, March 1, 2019 10:20 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Friday Thoughts I don't think there ever were any 450i Lite APs, so I suppose if the standard 450 isn't being produced anymore, the Canopy Lite AP is probably a thing of the past... but we don't use them, so I don't know for sure. They do still make and sell ePMP 1000 and ePMP 2000 Lite APs. It doesn't sound like there are any plans for an ePMP 3000 Lite AP, however. On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 10:00 AM Ken Hohhof < [email protected] > wrote: Do they even sell the Lite APs anymore? Not the upgrade keys, but new Lite APs? I kind of assume we are going to have to replace all the 450 APs with 450i at some point, and if we need to upgrade a Lite, just swap out the AP rather than buy the license key. Maybe redeploy the Lite. It’s a pain remembering which are 450 and which are 450i, remembering which have internal GPS sync and which don’t, remembering which need 24V power and which need 48V, which have GigE interfaces, which take Cambium sync, and if you ever had 430 APs, which had different pinouts. But Cambium likes to keep moving our cheese and making our life difficult challenging interesting. From: AF < [email protected] > On Behalf Of Andy Trimmell Sent: Friday, March 1, 2019 9:19 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group < [email protected] > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Friday Thoughts I just don’t see why something like this takes this long to accomplish. I could have bought and shipped an actual AP to my office faster than getting a license key. I see where you guys have circumvented the wait time but should we really have to do that? I definitely like using the Lite APs because like you some of them I won’t ever have to upgrade but right now #11 is sitting there waiting as patient as a customer can. This is also the first Lite AP I’ve ever had to upgrade. I wasn’t aware the process took this long in 2019. Andy Trimmell Business Manager PDS Connect 317-831-3000 From: AF [ mailto:[email protected] ] On Behalf Of Mathew Howard Sent: Friday, March 01, 2019 9:52 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Friday Thoughts If you use Lite APs, you need to just make sure you always have at least one license key stored, and get new one ordered as soon as you use it. It does cost a little bit more to use Lite APs and then upgrade them, but in a lot of cases we never have to upgrade them... there's also the advantage that if the AP dies after it's out of warranty, you can get Cambium to transfer the license to a new Lite AP. On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 8:41 AM Josh Luthman < [email protected] > wrote: <blockquote> Because the work is done in advance. As far as ePMP I stock Lite radios on the shelf and 1 full in the van for quick repairs. I have license keys stored on my account with a lite to full key so I can do that in a pinch. It's kind of the same money but I have lite radios I can replace and I don't need to put up full ones in any event. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 8:48 AM Andy Trimmell < [email protected] > wrote: <blockquote> I have no idea why it takes so long to get a license key when I can literally get an actual AP here overnight with ground shipping. I should have just bought the big boy version. In this day and age you’d think it was almost instant. /rant off Andy Trimmell Business Manager PDS Connect 317-831-3000 -- 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 </blockquote> -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com </blockquote> -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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