Sean,

Do you charge the customer for any up-front hardware costs when you install
Calix or are you only getting ROI from the $12/monthly ??

On Sat, Dec 14, 2019 at 3:38 AM Sean Heskett <af...@zirkel.us> wrote:

> We install a Calix as a “trial” so we have visibility into their network
> and voila all their Wi-Fi problems go away.  After the free month trial it
> becomes a paid service and for $12/mo we make sure their Wi-Fi keeps
> working.  Win-win for us and them ;-)
>
> -Sean
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 10:33 AM Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote:
>
>> Has anyone figured out a solution to interference with Google WiFi at
>> customers fed via 5 GHz?
>>
>>
>>
>> We have found it to be an unsolvable problem due to:
>>
>>
>>
>> 1)  Google does not let you set the frequencies
>>
>> 2)  Google does not let you set the channel width (and therefore
>> presumably uses 80 MHz channels)
>>
>> 3)  The mesh system presumably uses additional spectrum for the backhaul
>> between pucks
>>
>> 4)  Most customers put in 3 of them, virtually guaranteeing at least 1 of
>> them will be right near the dish to the tower
>>
>> 5)  Many customers also figure they can put them in outbuildings to get
>> service to their shop, barn, etc. (one customer today intended to put one
>> in his wife’s “she-shed”)
>>
>>
>>
>> With any other router we just set the channel to a U-NII-1 or DFS
>> channel.  We have a fair amount of 3.65 GHz in our network and then it
>> isn’t a problem, but the majority is still 5 GHz.
>>
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