Welp just figured out what I’m doing tonight. So much for mowing the lawn.
> On Sep 5, 2019, at 4:58 PM, Clint Wiley <cl...@hagerstownfiber.com> wrote: > > I thought the latest Amplifi firmware supported TR-069? > > https://community.amplifi.com/topic/1862/firmware-v3-0-0 > > > Thanks, > > Clint Wiley > Hagerstown Fiber Internet > > From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> on behalf of Ryan Hill <rh...@amplex.net> > Reply-To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> > Date: Thursday, September 5, 2019 at 4:39 PM > To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Mesh whole house wifi > > I went through exactly the list of options that you mentioned David. My > favorite was the Amplifi, it worked flawlessly but it is expensive, and > didn’t have access to the unifi controller which stunk. They answer to that > has been the Dream Machine which is better but still requires it’s own Unifi > Controller which stinks for what were looking for. We explored Calix > extensively and even bought 25 Gigacenters and the Mesh units(Let me know if > someone wants them?) but we too didn’t want to undertake using their cloud > since we own our own ACS. The onboarding of the Calix ourselves into our ACS > wasn’t something we have time to do so we scrapped Calix. > This leaves Cambium or Ubnt > We’ve been selling managed router services with the r201s for a couple years > but just started testing now the r201s meshed with themselves and or the > e430H wall units is working ok, or Unifi devices which we are deploying > rapidly for business class applications and managing with the unifi > controller. > > > > > > > <image001.png> > Ryan Hill > Operations Manager > Amplex Internet > (419)837-5015 Ext 1047 > www.amplex.net > > > > > > > > > On Sep 5, 2019, at 4:13 PM, Robert Andrews <i...@avantwireless.com> wrote: > > We had customers try orbi and found a couple of problems. 1st was that you > could not set the channel that it used for mesh. There was a place to in > the config but it didn't actually change anything ( it lied ) and if it chose > a channel we were delivering on, all hell broke loose. Second was that we had > a customer pick theirs up from Costco when they were selling them and when > the customer went to upgrade the firmware ( hopefully to fix the mesh channel > thing ) there was no firmware available for the mesh unit they had purchased. > They looked, we drove out there and looked, The unit number was nowhere > in the orbi support firmwares and could not be upgraded. > > Disqualified because of those two things.. > > > > On 09/05/2019 11:47 AM, David Coudron wrote: > > We looked at a bunch of different options and decided to provide Netgear Orbi > Mesh. What we looked at was: > Ubiquiti Amplifi – worked great in our tests, but there is no remote > management option > Calix Gigacenter – also worked great, but really need to commit to their > cloud management. That was too big a commitment for just the few meshes we do > TP Link, Google and a bunch of others – all would likely work, but most > didn’t have remote management and/or a dedicated backhaul channel. > Mikrotik – Not really in the same category, but wasn’t a serious > consideration as it was way to complicated and under performing > Netgear checked the boxes that were important to us: > Readily available > Remotely manageable > Dedicated backhaul channel > Reasonably priced > Passed our simple testing > Regards, > David Coudron > *From:*AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf Of *Clint Wiley > *Sent:* Thursday, September 5, 2019 1:36 PM > *To:* af@af.afmug.com > *Subject:* [AFMUG] Mesh whole house wifi > Hi all, > For those of you offering ‘whole house’ wifi services, what are you > deploying? We know that the one sore point for our users is wifi coverage. > Our ONT vendor (zhone) has been promising a solution for almost a year now > but it still isn’t ready and, quite frankly, lacks the end user management > features others might have. We’d like remote management so we can assist in > setting SSID’s and changing passwords, et. > Thanks, > Clint > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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