I teach the classes, and a lot of the Unifi students are doing some variation of this as part of their other included managed services. So maybe they're AV, put in all the fancy AV stuff and tie together with Unifi and have a maintenance package for all the hardware together. Or managed IT services for small business, or home scaled IT services, etc. There's a lot of ways to skin that cat, but I'm not sure doing solely manged AP's would pay off but maybe you could roll it into an aggregated managed services package. Just be mindful that residential end user support is the opposite of fun (although many not fun things can be very profitable).
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 4:36 PM, Bill Prince <[email protected]> wrote: > We're thinking a managed WiFi service might be appropriate. We have quite a > few subs with really large homes, and a managing a bunch of them could be > significant overhead. Wondering if anyone is doing this on any kind of > production scale, and what seems appropriate for residential service. > Without giving it a great deal of thought (so this may be high-ball or > low-ball), I'm thinking something like $5/mrc would be reasonable. > > bp > <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> > > On 1/27/2015 1:20 PM, Caleb Knauer wrote: >> >> I would like to see a migration tool of some sort. Our big controller >> has gotten a bit too big and we are about to split it into multiple >> pieces. It's an adventure. >> >> On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Bill Prince <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I see one thing that could be smoother. We set up a couple of Unifi APs; >>> one here in our office, and another in a large home. The controller was >>> on >>> my traveling laptop. Now that each of them is running, I wanted to move >>> the >>> controller to a VM in our colo. >>> >>> It seems to me that if you are logged into the active controller, it >>> should >>> be a simple push-button to "move" the controller to another running >>> controller. Maybe you need to have some sort of session going between >>> controllers, but that should be relatively easy too. Or maybe (at the >>> most) >>> a push-button receive mode on one controller, and a push mode from >>> another >>> controller. >>> >>> It does not seem "right" that you need to reset an AP (or APs) to move >>> the >>> controller. Very uncomfortable with this when I have to remote into a >>> site >>> in the first place, and reset an AP (or APs) in order to get them to link >>> to >>> an L3 controller in the cloud. Of course, once you've moved the >>> controller, >>> then you have to re-load the previous AP configuration. >>> >>> bp >>> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> >>> >>> On 1/21/2015 12:12 PM, Mike Hammett wrote: >>> >>> Yes, run the UniFi Controller at the colo. From there you can control >>> every >>> UniFi you place everywhere. >>> >>> It pulls statistics, handles upgrades, well, everything a controller is >>> supposed to do. >>> >>> It doesn't have to be in a VPN, but that's what I do. >>> >>> >>> >>> ----- >>> Mike Hammett >>> Intelligent Computing Solutions >>> http://www.ics-il.com >>> >>> ________________________________ >>> From: "Bill Prince" <[email protected]> >>> To: [email protected] >>> Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 2:07:07 PM >>> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] WiFi for restaurant >>> >>> Run it where? The colo? That seems counter productive. We want a >>> more-or-less continuous VPN connection between our colo and the WiFi AP >>> in >>> our office? How is this good? >>> >>> bp >>> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> >>> >>> On 1/21/2015 12:04 PM, Mike Hammett wrote: >>> >>> So run it there. >>> >>> >>> >>> ----- >>> Mike Hammett >>> Intelligent Computing Solutions >>> http://www.ics-il.com >>> >>> ________________________________ >>> From: "Bill Prince" <[email protected]> >>> To: [email protected] >>> Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 2:03:29 PM >>> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] WiFi for restaurant >>> >>> AP was not re-provisioned. She had to re-connect to continue to use >>> it. She said the connection just "went away". It was simple to >>> re-connect, just unexpected, and not what I would consider nice behavior. >>> >>> I will do a couple of controlled tests to see what is happening. >>> >>> BTW - We don't have any VMs running in our office; those are all down in >>> the colo. >>> >>> bp >>> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> >>> >>> On 1/21/2015 11:49 AM, Caleb Knauer wrote: >>>> >>>> Sounds like the AP was re-provisioning? Did wifi come back up after a >>>> minute or two? >>>> >>>> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 1:58 PM, Bill Prince <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I don't know if this is a bug or not... Our new Unifi AP has been >>>>> running >>>>> about 24 hours without a hitch. I started up the controller on my >>>>> desktop, >>>>> and my partners laptop lost connection to WiFi. I had not pushed any >>>>> buttons, merely "started" the Unifi controller app. >>>>> >>>>> Is this a known issue? >>>>> >>>>> Not nice. >>>>> >>>>> bp >>>>> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> >>>>> >>>>> On 1/20/2015 11:54 AM, Josh Reynolds wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> It runs like shit on windows. It's using Linux emulation libraries. >>>>>> >>>>>> On January 20, 2015 10:48:12 AM AKST, Bill Prince >>>>>> <[email protected]> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> The machine I first loaded it on is running Windows 8.1 (puke BTW), >>>>>>> but >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I didn't have a lot of choices. When Unifi didn't work, I googled >>>>>>> around and found out I needed to roll back java to 7.x. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> But it's a pretty snappy machine; 3.7 GHz quad-core A10 with plenty >>>>>>> of >>>>>>> memory. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> bp >>>>>>> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On 1/20/2015 11:40 AM, Josh Reynolds wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Depends on the hardware it's on, and the hardware you're using to >>>>>>> >>>>>>> manage it. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On January 20, 2015 10:18:31 AM AKST, Bill Prince >>>>>>> >>>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> With all the talk, we got some of these. Put one up in our office >>>>>>> >>>>>>> this >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> morning. It seems to work OK. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Controller takes a century to load initially. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> I had to time-travel back from 2115 to write this. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> bp >>>>>>>>> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> On 1/13/2015 2:08 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote: >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> On 1/13/15 13:49, Daniel White wrote: >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> I have a Unifi AC AP at my house. Have not been overly >>>>>>>>>>> impressed. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> I have two at the office. They don't do much more than basic >>>>>>>>>> office >>>>>>>>>> wireless stuff though and seem to be fine so far. What have you >>>>>>> >>>>>>> found >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> lacking? >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> ~Seth >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >
