TR-069 support isn’t actually enabled though. Have to bug them and after a lot of back-and-forth they’ll enable a beta release for specific MACs you give them. (side-note: I really wish the binaries were readily available) Of course, I haven’t had time to play with it but think I will tonight.
How much for a Gigacenter and repeater? I’ve always wanted to try one, but didn’t want to bother with the whole procurement process. On Thursday, September 5, 2019, Ryan's Amplex <[email protected]> wrote: > Welp just figured out what I’m doing tonight. So much for mowing the > lawn. > > On Sep 5, 2019, at 4:58 PM, Clint Wiley <[email protected]> wrote: > > I thought the latest Amplifi firmware supported TR-069? > > > > https://community.amplifi.com/topic/1862/firmware-v3-0-0 > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Clint Wiley > > Hagerstown Fiber Internet > > > > *From: *AF <[email protected]> on behalf of Ryan Hill < > [email protected]> > *Reply-To: *AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> > *Date: *Thursday, September 5, 2019 at 4:39 PM > *To: *AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> > *Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] Mesh whole house wifi > > > > I went through exactly the list of options that you mentioned David. My > favorite was the Amplifi, it worked flawlessly but it is expensive, and > didn’t have access to the unifi controller which stunk. They answer to > that has been the Dream Machine which is better but still requires it’s own > Unifi Controller which stinks for what were looking for. We explored Calix > extensively and even bought 25 Gigacenters and the Mesh units(Let me know > if someone wants them?) but we too didn’t want to undertake using their > cloud since we own our own ACS. The onboarding of the Calix ourselves into > our ACS wasn’t something we have time to do so we scrapped Calix. > > This leaves Cambium or Ubnt > > We’ve been selling managed router services with the r201s for a couple > years but just started testing now the r201s meshed with themselves and or > the e430H wall units is working ok, or Unifi devices which we are deploying > rapidly for business class applications and managing with the unifi > controller. > > > > > > > > > > > <image001.png> > > * Ryan Hill * > > Operations Manager > > *Amplex I**nternet* > > (419)837-5015 Ext 1047 > > www.amplex.net > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sep 5, 2019, at 4:13 PM, Robert Andrews <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > We had customers try orbi and found a couple of problems. 1st was that > you could not set the channel that it used for mesh. There was a place to > in the config but it didn't actually change anything ( it lied ) and if it > chose a channel we were delivering on, all hell broke loose. Second was > that we had a customer pick theirs up from Costco when they were selling > them and when the customer went to upgrade the firmware ( hopefully to fix > the mesh channel thing ) there was no firmware available for the mesh unit > they had purchased. They looked, we drove out there and looked, The > unit number was nowhere in the orbi support firmwares and could not be > upgraded. > > Disqualified because of those two things.. > > > > On 09/05/2019 11:47 AM, David Coudron wrote: > > We looked at a bunch of different options and decided to provide Netgear > Orbi Mesh. What we looked at was: > Ubiquiti Amplifi – worked great in our tests, but there is no remote > management option > Calix Gigacenter – also worked great, but really need to commit to their > cloud management. That was too big a commitment for just the few meshes we > do > TP Link, Google and a bunch of others – all would likely work, but most > didn’t have remote management and/or a dedicated backhaul channel. > Mikrotik – Not really in the same category, but wasn’t a serious > consideration as it was way to complicated and under performing > Netgear checked the boxes that were important to us: > Readily available > Remotely manageable > Dedicated backhaul channel > Reasonably priced > Passed our simple testing > Regards, > David Coudron > *From:*AF <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *Clint Wiley > *Sent:* Thursday, September 5, 2019 1:36 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [AFMUG] Mesh whole house wifi > Hi all, > For those of you offering ‘whole house’ wifi services, what are you > deploying? We know that the one sore point for our users is wifi coverage. > Our ONT vendor (zhone) has been promising a solution for almost a year now > but it still isn’t ready and, quite frankly, lacks the end user management > features others might have. We’d like remote management so we can assist in > setting SSID’s and changing passwords, et. > Thanks, > Clint > > > -- > 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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