Agreed. You're going to find MT products that suit your needs. UBNT is getting my business these days because of 2 things... cost & trust. They've made a huge impact on the WISP business, no denying that. They've done it by creating a product that can be trusted at a good price point.
Quality control from a reputable, proven company is important to me, more important than features. This was an ideal that made me want to go to Trangos everywhere even though they were more expensive. I didn't want to pay Trango pricing, but I have realized that there is, by and large, a cost to "cheap". Now, enter UBNT, a manufacturer who has invested in their business enough to develop processes that lower the manufacturing costs while maintaining a reasonable quality. I hope this pays off... We all gamble with our money, don't we? The need to drive cost down is a giant weight around our necks. Those who gamble with someone else's money use Moto or Trango in my experience. I know of a WISP who has about 800 customers using Trango gear and they only have about 2 service calls a month. I say to myself "that would be nice". But then I say to myself "for 5 years now I've paid for absolutely EVERYTHING out of my checking account...my money". That WISP with 800 users & 2 service calls per month...owes more money than they're worth. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Reed" <[email protected]> To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 1:22 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] I'm pulling Mikrotik > There are many vendors offering built CPEs and APs based on MT > hardware. They don't have to build-it-yourself just because MT doesn't > do the packaging. > > On 9/16/2010 3:23 PM, Mark Nash wrote: >> Also, to be fair, I've never had a problem with Mikrotik because I have >> never used Mikrotik radios (neither CPE or AP). We've had StarOS. >> >> So, while my frustration comes from StarOS wireless devices, I lump >> Mikrotik >> in with them because of the build-them-yourself nature of them. >> >> We actually LOVE the StarOS software, and Mikrotik is even more >> feature-rich. Just don't want to have to put up with the hardware and >> touchy installation of that hardware. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Mike Hammett"<[email protected]> >> To: "WISPA General List"<[email protected]> >> Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 11:52 AM >> Subject: Re: [WISPA] I'm pulling Mikrotik >> >> >>> YMMV. I've had near flawless performance from my Mikrotik systems. >>> >>> ----- >>> Mike Hammett >>> Intelligent Computing Solutions >>> http://www.ics-il.com >>> >>> >>> >>> On 9/16/2010 1:04 PM, Forbes Mercy wrote: >>>> I have about 30 seconds to leave this, I'm going to pull every >>>> Mikrotik I have, that's about 30 radios and replace them with UBNIT. >>>> I'm sick and tired of spending all last night because two radios just >>>> dropped their IP setting to 0.0.0.0 and the other MAC to 0.0.0.0, today >>>> another system storm crash, what stayed up, my two Ubiquiti towers. >>>> You >>>> can say what you want but I have daily outages, we never find the cause >>>> and I'm sick of it... flame away I don't care I'm just sick of >>>> Mikrotik. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> WISPA Wants You! 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