> We have 99% take rate when it's free.
The battle cry of the new economy. Well, except WeWork may have screwed that up for everyone. But I can see it in this case. We only get about a 30% take rate on leased routers (not as fancy as Calix though) even though we have one model for $2/month. People would rather pay Google or Netgear $300 than pay us $24/year, and we replace it free if it breaks. Making it free appeals to human nature … people love free stuff. Also it appeals to human inertia … even if you charge for the router, making it opt out, and maybe free for the first month, means they have to actually do work to NOT take the router. Maybe even return it. I don’t think we are allowed to prohibit customers from using their own router, or maybe that went away with net neutrality. From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Darin Steffl Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2019 1:29 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Google WiFi and 5 GHz interference Rural pricing: http://www.mnwifi.com/service-plans/internet-service/fup City pricing where we have horns: http://www.mnwifi.com/service-plans/internet-service/5g-plans/ On Sat, Dec 14, 2019, 2:17 PM <ch...@wbmfg.com <mailto:ch...@wbmfg.com> > wrote: Mind sharing your plan prices? From: Darin Steffl Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2019 12:06 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Google WiFi and 5 GHz interference We used to charge $50 upfront and $10 per month for Calix. Now we just increased our plan prices and give the Calix away for free. We have 99% take rate when it's free. On Sat, Dec 14, 2019, 12:30 PM Kurt Fankhauser <lists.wavel...@gmail.com <mailto:lists.wavel...@gmail.com> > wrote: 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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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. -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com <mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com <mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com <mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com _____ -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com <mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com <mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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