Is that the media converter thing you were talking about?
Can you make something like that in reverse? Say I have a hybrid
power+fiber cable up the tower and I want to power up a 20-56VDC radio.
The most common thing I'm thinking of here is an AF24, because UBNT
decided not to put an SFP and a DC input block on the damn things. For
one or two radios, at different heights I might add, throwing something
like a Netonix switch up there doesn't make sense. Plus they're PTPs
that I want to go straight into physical router interfaces. The media
converter should also pass through the link status in both directions. I
have some cheap-o Startech media converters that don't do that, even
though there's a dip switch for it, but it doesn't work, and it pisses
me off.
On 1/2/2016 9:45 PM, Chuck McCown wrote:
It is my APC-POE surge suppressor combined with a 48 to 12 VDC buck
converter. Right now it is a kludge. If it powers up the 844E OK
under max load while being powered from a netonix switch I will
combine the two circuits onto a board and look for an appropriate case
for it.
*From:* Chris Fabien <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* Saturday, January 02, 2016 7:30 PM
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT - bad dream
Can you share more ingo on this chuck? The poe adapter.
On Jan 1, 2016 4:26 PM, "Chuck McCown" <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Yep, I am building a POE adapter for the gigacenter too...
Love their flow software.
*From:* Sean Heskett <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* Friday, January 01, 2016 2:24 PM
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT - bad dream
Calix can do all that and a whole lot more sterling
On Friday, January 1, 2016, Sterling Jacobson
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I hear you.
My new year's goal is to find a better solution for my customers.
Unfortunately, at 100-1000Mbps, the pickings are still slim.
I would like to use MikroTik and manage the routing, but I'm
finding that it's still best to get a really nice $100-$300+
single Wireless AC router and place it in the center of the house.
What I would really like is a good split solution with routing
in the head/basement, and wireless AC in bridge mode in one or
two places in the house.
But that doesn't seem to exist.
-----Original Message-----
From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ken Hohhof
Sent: Friday, January 1, 2016 10:30 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT - bad dream
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!!!!!
>
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