I've got an AC-Pro/edu and an LR in the house. The 2.4 coverage is great except outside. Inside, I get about a room and a half of 5ghz coverage. Also tried a calix gigacenter and a few other test routers... No difference.
Not suitable for our scenario, where we will have up to 6 concurrent IPTV streams. Need to wire each set top, or have the AP in the same room. On Jan 2, 2016 11:51 AM, "Bill Prince" <[email protected]> wrote: > You know... I put a wired MT in the back room where our hub is, and a > unifi WAP in the center of the house, and we never seem to have problems > here. > > I've got a buddy that lives in town, and he has gone through a half dozen > or so different Linksees, dleenks, and so on, and this morning he is asking > me for a "recommended router". I'm inclined to set up what we have, so I > can stop listening to his whining. (He's not on our service, he's on the > evil empire's network). > > > bp > <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> > > On 1/1/2016 9:30 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote: > >> I'm seeing a gradual increase in customers leasing a managed Mikrotik >> from us, we charge $5/mo for a RB951G-2HnD which has been very trouble free >> for us once we tweak a couple WiFi parameters. I think they look at the >> pile of discarded routers in their closet and decide to let someone else >> deal with it. Most still fall into either the "I can buy one at Walmart >> for $50" camp or the "I like going to Best Buy and letting the sales guy >> talk me into the $250 router because I like shopping for expensive toys" >> camp. And people still look at the humble little white Mikrotik in its >> plain brown box and think it can't possibly match their big black AC1900 >> router that looks like a weapon from Star Wars. >> >> The question I guess is whether to join the cable/telco crowd and supply >> the WiFi router and manage it for no additional revenue, and then what to >> do about the people who still want to put their own Star Wars router behind >> it. >> >> It is very disappointing that since Belkin bought Linksys they are now >> designing their own Linksys branded routers that are far worse than the >> Linksys designed E series which certainly had their own problems. I >> replaced a customer's Belksys AC1900 router with a Mikrotik this week and >> they went from having total dead spots in parts of their house on both 2.4 >> and 5 GHz to having full bars and great performance everywhere including >> the basement. Their minds were boggled at this little white box with no >> external antennas blowing away the big black monster. >> >> Of the household brands, Netgear doesn't seem all that bad, except their >> low end WNR2000 has a really high failure rate. I see people starting to >> trend toward less known brands like Asus and TP-Link. But too many of my >> customers think the electronics store is "Walmart" and they seem to come >> back with these Belkin pieces of crap, I particularly hate the model that >> only has 1 LED on the whole router and you have to interpret the color and >> number of flashes, it's like figuring out what R2D2 is saying. What's that >> R2? No link on port 3? >> >> >> -----Original Message----- From: Simon Westlake >> Sent: Friday, January 01, 2016 11:04 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT - bad dream >> >> I've honestly given up completely on all residential routers, they seem >> to be slowly converging on a common denominator which is that none of >> them work properly and only last a few months. I had to replace my >> router recently, and just got a Mikrotik instead. One of the guys I work >> with just replaced his old Linksys with a Mikrotik, and all of his minor >> problems went away. >> >> I used to think that it was a bad idea to provide managed routers to end >> users, but I'm slowly changing my mind after realizing how many issues >> are caused by them. There's also a lot you could do to provide better >> service to an end user, hypothetically.. let's say you put in a DD-WRT >> or Mikrotik router and setup some shaping on the client side with SFQ. >> They'd probably see a lot less issues with their Netflix buffering when >> their Xbox was downloading a game, or their VoIP cutting out when >> they're watching Daredevil in 4K. >> >> On 1/1/2016 10:05 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote: >> >>> I had a bad dream where all my customers go to Walmart and buy Belkin >>> routers. I tried to wake up but I wasn't dreaming. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!! >>> >>> >> >
