No great system works for free. Calix is still the best option out there feature and performance wise. Price isn't bad once you consider how easy it is, can free up labor for money making things like sales, and reduces churn. I'm going to continue saying that the Calix cloud pays for itself over and over again.
We pay for management of 1000 routers like $6500 a year for cloud which comes out to something like 54 cents per month per sub. Sell your customers managed router service if you're worried. We include it at zero cost now because it's better they have a good wifi experience than a shitty one and then cancel service. On Fri, Jun 7, 2019, 5:30 PM Adam Moffett <dmmoff...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm curious what people are doing for home WiFi. > > I've looked at Calix, Plume, and other big name systems. They're all > pretty awesome, but the recurring cost is a little tough to swallow. > > I don't like Mikrotik for this purpose because A) no central management > unless you write your own and B) it's daunting for new techs to learn > some basic things like port forwarding or switching to bridge mode. I > mean it's nice that the Mikrotik can do everything, but a port > forwarding rule doesn't need to be that hard. > > With Ubiquiti they have a bunch of different products with diverging > target markets. Hard to get a handle on what I would want. I do like > that UNMS is available for free. I don't like that AmpliFi isn't > supported in UNMS, and honestly the pricetag on the Mesh nodes is a bit > high ($100+). The AirCube models seem about right, but I wish it had a > couple of features from AmpliFi. UniFi is a nice system and AFAIK the > only UBNT thing with zero touch provisioning, but it's not convenient > for many individual networks on the controller. I guess I feel like > they have 3 different product lines that are each almost right, but they > couldn't quite bring it all together. > > Cambium CnPilot with CnMaestro ticks most of my check boxes, but > (correct me if I'm wrong) I don't think they make a mesh/repeater type > of unit. > > I guess I could look at ReadyNet again. I can't remember why I didn't > run with them earlier. > > What is the Borg using for home WiFi to sell as a service? > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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