I've got an AC-Pro/edu and an LR in the house. The 2.4 coverage is great
except outside. Inside, I get about a room and a half of 5ghz coverage.
Also tried a calix gigacenter and a few other test routers... No difference.
Not suitable for our scenario, where we will have up to 6 concurrent IPTV
streams. Need to wire each set top, or have the AP in the same room.
On Jan 2, 2016 11:51 AM, "Bill Prince" <part15...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You know... I put a wired MT in the back room where our hub is, and a
> unifi WAP in the center of the house, and we never seem to have problems
> here.
>
> I've got a buddy that lives in town, and he has gone through a half dozen
> or so different Linksees, dleenks, and so on, and this morning he is asking
> me for a "recommended router". I'm inclined to set up what we have, so I
> can stop listening to his whining. (He's not on our service, he's on the
> evil empire's network).
>
>
> bp
> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
>
> On 1/1/2016 9:30 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
>
>> I'm seeing a gradual increase in customers leasing a managed Mikrotik
>> from us, we charge $5/mo for a RB951G-2HnD which has been very trouble free
>> for us once we tweak a couple WiFi parameters. I think they look at the
>> pile of discarded routers in their closet and decide to let someone else
>> deal with it. Most still fall into either the "I can buy one at Walmart
>> for $50" camp or the "I like going to Best Buy and letting the sales guy
>> talk me into the $250 router because I like shopping for expensive toys"
>> camp. And people still look at the humble little white Mikrotik in its
>> plain brown box and think it can't possibly match their big black AC1900
>> router that looks like a weapon from Star Wars.
>>
>> The question I guess is whether to join the cable/telco crowd and supply
>> the WiFi router and manage it for no additional revenue, and then what to
>> do about the people who still want to put their own Star Wars router behind
>> it.
>>
>> It is very disappointing that since Belkin bought Linksys they are now
>> designing their own Linksys branded routers that are far worse than the
>> Linksys designed E series which certainly had their own problems. I
>> replaced a customer's Belksys AC1900 router with a Mikrotik this week and
>> they went from having total dead spots in parts of their house on both 2.4
>> and 5 GHz to having full bars and great performance everywhere including
>> the basement. Their minds were boggled at this little white box with no
>> external antennas blowing away the big black monster.
>>
>> Of the household brands, Netgear doesn't seem all that bad, except their
>> low end WNR2000 has a really high failure rate. I see people starting to
>> trend toward less known brands like Asus and TP-Link. But too many of my
>> customers think the electronics store is "Walmart" and they seem to come
>> back with these Belkin pieces of crap, I particularly hate the model that
>> only has 1 LED on the whole router and you have to interpret the color and
>> number of flashes, it's like figuring out what R2D2 is saying. What's that
>> R2? No link on port 3?
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message----- From: Simon Westlake
>> Sent: Friday, January 01, 2016 11:04 AM
>> To: af@afmug.com
>> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT - bad dream
>>
>> I've honestly given up completely on all residential routers, they seem
>> to be slowly converging on a common denominator which is that none of
>> them work properly and only last a few months. I had to replace my
>> router recently, and just got a Mikrotik instead. One of the guys I work
>> with just replaced his old Linksys with a Mikrotik, and all of his minor
>> problems went away.
>>
>> I used to think that it was a bad idea to provide managed routers to end
>> users, but I'm slowly changing my mind after realizing how many issues
>> are caused by them. There's also a lot you could do to provide better
>> service to an end user, hypothetically.. let's say you put in a DD-WRT
>> or Mikrotik router and setup some shaping on the client side with SFQ.
>> They'd probably see a lot less issues with their Netflix buffering when
>> their Xbox was downloading a game, or their VoIP cutting out when
>> they're watching Daredevil in 4K.
>>
>> On 1/1/2016 10:05 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
>>
>>> I had a bad dream where all my customers go to Walmart and buy Belkin
>>> routers. I tried to wake up but I wasn't dreaming. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!
>>>
>>>
>>
>
