We are using hAP AC-lite, hAP lite, and hAP mini units with mcpnetworks.us, Aerez, to manage the configuration and ease troubleshooting for tech support.
It is not without issues. The good news is we have helped them identify and get through some of those issues, so you don't have to. It is still not perfect. It works pretty well. It's going to take them time to add some features / procedures we want. I think the most important bottleneck on many WISP networks is inside the customers' house within their plan speed. It's pretty easy to bump up backhaul capacity, even if it is a bit expensive. The ability to use the MikroTik PCQ to fair share the bandwidth within the home helps to alleviate the "I can't play video games while mom and dad watch TV. Your internet sucks." type complaints. I've been to one home where the three young children watched two different streams and the parents each watched their own things. That was on a 4/1 plan and the streams looked okay enough for the parents. Netflix does a good job making streams work down to 1 Mbps. Some of the streams were from Facebook. I made a cell over wifi call while that was going on. The call was perfect. I had to make the call over wifi. Cellular doesn't work there. You have to get outside and up a hill to get halfway reliable cellular. The hAPs have 2 dBi antennas. You may need an expansion unit to cover the house depending on how big the house is and where you've installed the router. Aerez can manage that expansion unit and show you the client signals connected to the main unit as well as the expansion unit. I wish MikroTik had $50 units with external antennae. The dual chain aspect of the hAPs is working better than expected compared to the AirRouter HP's single chain with a bigger antenna. Coverage is not as good, but not by as much as we expected from a pure dBi perspective. On 2018/9/13 12:11, Kees H. wrote: > I guess I will be trying out MT product line. > Any recommendations? > *From:* Mike Hammett > *Sent:* Thursday, September 13, 2018 10:59 AM > *To:* Ubiquiti Users Group > *Subject:* Re: [Ubnt_users] AirCube programming <! rant > > It shouldn't be accessible from the WAN port. ;-) > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions <http://www.ics-il.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL><https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb><https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions><https://twitter.com/ICSIL> > Midwest Internet Exchange <http://www.midwest-ix.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix><https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange><https://twitter.com/mdwestix> > The Brothers WISP <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp><https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From: *"Kees H." <[email protected]> > *To: *"Ubiquiti Users Group" <[email protected]> > *Sent: *Thursday, September 13, 2018 12:34:33 PM > *Subject: *[Ubnt_users] AirCube programming <! rant > > > Now that the AirGateways LRs are EOL. > > How does one program the AirCube from the WAN port? > > Don't tell me to program it wirelessly, and that the password and WPA2 keys > are on the bottom. Those are so small I can not read them and I will not > spend the time to go the wireless route to program. Whatever happened to > ubnt & ubnt as login and password. > > Someone with too much time on their hands decided how to set up this router > with out asking the wisps what they needed? > > Unless this cube is as easy to program as the AirGateway ( from the wan > port) I will have to find another router that will program from the wan > port. > > _______________________________________________ > Ubnt_users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/ubnt_users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Ubnt_users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/ubnt_users > > > _______________________________________________ > Ubnt_users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/ubnt_users > -- Scott Lambert KC5MLE Unix SysAdmin [email protected] _______________________________________________ Ubnt_users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/ubnt_users
