LTE is the light at the end of my tunnel right now, bro....don't ruin
the magic.
I don't know about "hasn't yet been tested". The LTE firmware is
basically beta, but it's said to be functional. Functional enough that
they offered to let me run it anyway. I might still take them up on the
offer, but for their sake and mine I hope it blows my mind with how
awesome it is.
The only smoke and mirrors I'm aware of is that whenever they tell you
about the awesome-sauce they have, they're definitely talking about LTE
and the near future. What they have right now is not the Corvette
they're trying to sell you. What they have now is equally quirky as the
320, but 10x harder to use. It does have 4 antenna ports and if you
want to, you can run two base stations out of one unit, using two
different channels and two BSID's. So you do get two base stations for
the price of two base stations. Or the four antenna ports give you
antenna diversity at the base station....which they say gives you a
little more margin in the upload direction. They claim better
performance, but I can't point to any of the Compact base stations and
say, "ah, this one is doing more than a 320 could have."
It's a good thing I'm not in sales. I would be terrible at it. It's not
a bad product, it's just not the awesome product I would like it to be.
I was all about the Telrad koolaid until I sat in on a webinar and saw
the plethora of smoke and mirrors. Im concerned when a company has a
product with attached promises of greatness based on standards based
technology that hasnt yet been tested on their own hardware and the
promises have the caveat of no longer being standards based. But I do
like the promises of the magic they will have like being able to use
what would have been interference from another AP in the system as
usable client signal, however im not sure how much IP likes traversing
to isolated sites at once.
I really hate not having any ethernet stats or control on the 320, I
never understood that being locked out
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 10:05 AM, Adam Moffett <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Did they promise you it's going to get better?
Buying Wimax feels like buying a Chevy Cobalt for the price of a
Corvette, based on the promise that they're delivering the
Corvette next year.
Moto never delivered the Corvette.� Alvarion/Telrad still says
the Corvette is coming.
I would have to check the MIB for the basestation, that was not
something I ever tried to graph.� The CPE was generic Gemtek
and Greenpacket stuff, so no, very little remote monitoring
capability.
�
I dread every time I have to log into the Purewave GUI and do
anything, it is so cumbersome.� I guess actually the
Greenpacket GUI is easy to use, just lacking in functionality.
�
�
*From:* Adam Moffett <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* Tuesday, February 17, 2015 9:44 AM
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] 320SMs Gathering ethernet Error stats
�
Did any of your Purewave stuff give you ethernet error counters?
So much for 4G stuff being �carrier class�.� Or maybe in
that world, CPE is customer-owned-equipment and not the
responsibility of the network operator to monitor.
�
�
*From:* Adam Moffett <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* Tuesday, February 17, 2015 9:12 AM
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] 320SMs Gathering ethernet Error stats
�
If you figure it out, let me know.� It's one of my biggest pet
peeves about the 320.
I'm sad to report that none of the Telrad CPE to seem to have it
either.....so maybe a Gemtek chipset limitation?
Is there an OID to gather Ethernet errors from the 320SMs in
either bridge and/or NAT mode?
�
Paul
�
Paul McCall, Pres.
PDMNet / Florida Broadband
658 Old Dixie Highway
Vero Beach, FL 32962
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