I have actually have pretty decent experience specifically with the EOC-1650s, so far with about 20 deployed and a couple approaching 2years outdoor operation. Interestingly, the 1650's have proven more reliable than more Engenius' powerful units like EOC-2610 or EOC-2611P, suggesting overheats.
I do understand Engenius had (has) substantial quality control problems, if not just outright product quality deficits, a few years ago. It's no surprise Engenius markets its products as cheaper clones of UBNT gear. Still, the 1650's seem to be a very popular unit with my preferred supplier, as they are sold out from time to time. (Which was what lead me to Microcenter ...) On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 9:44 PM, Sam Tetherow <[email protected]> wrote: > ** > Haven't bought anything from Engenius since the CB3s, we tried some of > their new 802.11g gear when it first came out and found that it had > hardware issues (high failure rate and overheating issues, even indoors). > It failed even faster than HighGain stuff did. > > Now the CB3, that was an indistructable radio, I have over a hundred still > deployed after 7 years although they are all due to get replaced this > spring since we didn't get everything replaced last fall. > > > On 01/24/2012 09:16 PM, Ben West wrote: > > Although I'm guessing very few folks on this list use Engenius EOC-1650 > access points, I can relate that my very small experiment sampling product > quality in outdoor Engenius gear from Microcenter has yielded 100% duds. > > That is, of the APs purchased in a pinch last month because my usual > supplier was out of stock, all of them, 100% of them, or not 0% of them, > have been returned due to defects discovered. > > Both appeared to have transmitter failures, one exhibited maybe 20% or > 30% of the tx power it should have had, and the other appears to have lost > its transmitter entirely. > > Thankfully, Microcenter took them both back, probably to be packed back > into boxes and re-shelved. > > -- > Ben West > http://gowasabi.net > [email protected] > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today!http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > 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: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -- Ben West http://gowasabi.net [email protected]
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