If you use the new UBNT surgeprotectors* (or something like them), then
your outdoor run would technically terminate at that box, and then you'd
have a second (probably much shorter) run from that box into the home.
It would be much more likely for the primarily 'outdoor' cable to have
water in it than the much shorter run inside the home.
Also, we always slice the bottom of our drip loops to let water weep out.
[* - I have no idea if these are shipping]
Josh Reynolds, Chief Information Officer
SPITwSPOTS, www.spitwspots.com <http://www.spitwspots.com>
On 10/07/2014 04:20 AM, Mike Hammett via Af wrote:
I used to be really excited about all-in-one CPE units until I
realized that where now I have to change out the occasional PoE due to
water\lightning\whatever damage... then I'd have to change out the
entire unit.
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com
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*From: *"Darin Steffl via Af" <[email protected]>
*To: *[email protected]
*Sent: *Sunday, October 5, 2014 4:25:38 PM
*Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] Customer install cost sensitivity
Chris Sisler - RF Armor has/is creating a Customer AP with POE
built-in but it doesn't have a display as far as I know to show status
or anything like that. He is working on getting out the Tower/WISP
switches first I think and then the Customer AP.
http://www.netonix.com/cap-fxs-1.html
On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 4:18 PM, TJ Trout via Af <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I would love to find a router that has poe output and all of the
diagnostic features you mentioned. It would be nice if the
customer could just look at the router to see the status of the
connection up down or otherwise.
On Oct 5, 2014 2:13 PM, "Chris Fabien via Af" <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I'd say you are correct. Would love to have the functionality
but even at $75 I couldn't justify the cost.
On Oct 5, 2014 5:08 PM, "Forrest Christian (List Account) via
Af" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Following up on the previous email about product ideas, I
have an idea for a product which at least I think would be
really cool, but I also think would likely be a big flop,
just because of the apparent cost sensitivity of installs.
It seems to me that it would be nice to replace the power
injector at customer sites with more of an intelligent
device. One that provides functionality like traffic
metering, cable diagnostics, customer-location speed
tests, and so on. The unit would have jacks for the
radio, the customer equipment, and power. It would also
have a display which shows real-time usage data for the
customer to be able to determine for themselves what their
current internet consumption is. There are a lot of
natural outgrowths from this such as watchdog reset of the
radio itself, automatic problem notification to the WISP,
etc. My goal would be to instrument this as much as
possible.
If you think of this as a 'smart power meter' for
internet, with diagnostic tools built in, then you've got
the basic idea. This is not intended to replace the
customer router/nat device, and will only be a Layer 2
device as far as traffic goes. There will likely be some
limited traffic shaping possible based on the underlying
ethernet swtich chipset.
Unfortunately, these can't be a $20 device. $75 might be
doable for higher volumes, but $100 is more in the comfort
zone for the volumes I typically move. Of course, this is
a CPE device and I'm not even sure how many I'd sell so
these prices are guesses at best - but more likely to go
down instead of up.
Although I suspect most people would love to have one of
these at each install, I have a hard time believing that
most people would swallow adding even $75 to the cost of
each install, let alone the $100 which might be the price
I'd have to hit for lower volume. Is this a fair
assumption? Would you add such a device to each install?
--
Darin Steffl
Minnesota WiFi
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