Have you seen any noticeable performance difference between meraki and open-mesh boxes? Meraki (roofnet derived) does some "exotic" stuff with raw atheros data, but don't know if it actually matters in throughput or reliability in a practical installation.
Tom S. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Ratcliffe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 2:59 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] MSOs investing heavily in wi-fi rollouts > Some months we have 30 signups, and no calls. Other times we have 10 and > 2 > of them call. I'd say you should expect about 2-3 calls a month per month > per building if your service doesn't go offline. And even if it does they > don't always call. > > All the signups are done online with no calls to us, via credit card. Its > really bulletproof, and Meraki sends us a check every month (I have one in > front of me actually). Open-Mesh has no billing yet, but they support > some > third party packages for credit card billing in beta. The nice part about > Meraki is that you don't even need a merchant account, they do everything > for you and send you a check. All for "only" 20% of your billing... The > open mesh billing betas, have some pay by the month and some > buy-it-outright > but we haven't started with that yet. > > Meraki & Open-Mesh have excellent monitoring & notification tools to tell > you it's down, ping stats, uptime information (per repeater & gateway). > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tom DeReggi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> > Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 5:05 PM > Subject: Re: [WISPA] MSOs investing heavily in wi-fi rollouts > > >> Doug or others doing low arpu MTU residential, >> >> How do you handle support for the services. >> Are you doing it as best effort, without support? >> >> Or are there tricks of the trade to doing it effectively? >> >> When your users, are getting service cheap, are they learning to be more >> tech savy on their own? >> >> Tom DeReggi >> RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc >> IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Rogelio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "Doug Ratcliffe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Cc: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> >> Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 3:14 PM >> Subject: Re: [WISPA] MSOs investing heavily in wi-fi rollouts >> >> >>> Doug Ratcliffe wrote: >>>> We've done a lot of condos. For free wifi, a 2.4 mesh network like >>>> open-mesh covers most decent sized condos (~100 units) for less than a >>>> grand. Then you can charge $5/unit, blow away the cable company and >>>> have the thing paid back in 3 months. >>> >>> I haven't yet played with open mesh stuff. >>> >>> Here's an article I found googling for it >>> >>> http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Open-Mesh-Picks-Up-Where-Meraki-Left-Off-92532 >>> >>>> We also install pay on demand which has had moderate success - a 120 >>>> unit apartment condo building, $9.95/wk, $19.95/month, we get about >>>> 10-15 signups a month and Meraki sends us a check minus their fee. >>>> Still takes a year or so to pay it back but its really been a zero >>>> maintenance building minus the occasional person who can't get their >>>> wifi working at first. >>> >>> I like that. That could work for poorer areas, particularly types that >>> don't want the long term commitment for wifi. >>> >>> >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >>> http://signup.wispa.org/ >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org >>> >>> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >>> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >>> >>> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >> > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
