That’s probably not a fair analogy. More like would you buy a vintage British sports car or a Mazda Miata. It depends on whether you like to tinker with it every day. I see it as kind of an OPEX vs CAPEX decision, also a scalability decision. 450/450i is very expensive, but doesn’t require a lot of labor, and gives you a lot of tools for monitoring and troubleshooting when you have to. When you’re starting out, you don’t have a lot of money to spend on equipment, but you have time to tinker, in fact it’s a learning experience. As your grow and scale up your business, you can probably continue that way if you hire and train staff. I think that’s part of “carrier class”, whenever I look at how the big carriers do things, they clearly prefer spending on CAPEX over OPEX. I think it’s partly the telco union labor history, they hate, hate, hate paying employees to do things, especially things that have to be done over and over. They prefer to pay more for equipment and hire contractors to install it and other contractors to clean the filters and fill the diesel tanks at the towers twice a year but otherwise never touch that equipment ever again. That’s not to say the big carrier model is best.
Personally, I think tone alignment alone is worth a bunch. From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of That One Guy /sarcasm Sent: Friday, September 30, 2016 8:53 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Not to start a war... lol knowing what you know would you drive a ford escort or a Ferrari? On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 8:47 AM, Sam Morris <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Knowing what you know, if you were starting a WISP, based solely on performance and manageability, if you had to be 100% one or the other would you select Ubiquiti or Cambium 450x for your APs and CPE/SM hardware (leaving the backhaul out of the discussion)? Thanks, Sam -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
