Love the real world result reports. Thank you! Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Jan 2, 2016 6:30 PM, "Sean Heskett" <af...@zirkel.us> wrote:
> I replaced my apple AirPort Extreme AC router with the calix and saw a > 50-75% improvement in speed and coverage. > > My friend who live in San Francisco was having severe wifi issues, > couldn't even stream music across his living room. Spectrum was clobbered > to say the least. Sent him a calix and he's seeing the same speeds over > wifi as he his hard wired now. > > For what it's worth, I don't have any "skin in the game" for calix (I > don't own stock or get a kick back etc), I've just been extremely impressed > over and over with the amazing results. I've never found a router I've > liked as much and felt confident enough to sell to my clients. And it's > not any more expensive than anything you can buy for the major vendors. > > Just here to share my experience etc. > > 2 cents > > On Saturday, January 2, 2016, Sterling Jacobson <sterl...@avative.net> > wrote: > >> That's what I had for a while, a Mikrotik 2011 series and a UBNT AC AP >> commercial grade connected to their top of the line UBNT 48 port PoE switch. >> >> In theory it worked well, in practice the AP failed at least once a month >> and the coverage was sucky. >> >> I replaced it with a Nighthawk X6 and coverage improved dramatically and >> so did throughput. >> >> Unfortunately, the Nighthawk dropped to about 1/3 capacity when any >> feature was turned on that did packet inspection. >> And their filtering software sucked and their interface was from the 90's. >> >> So I just barely purchased myself the top end ASUS mothership. >> >> So far the throughput is good, though it does drop from 950Mbps download >> to about 905Mbps download. >> >> BUT packet inspection features don't seem to decrease the speed much, >> maybe down to high 800's. >> >> So far, this is the best all in one solution I have found. >> >> Apple might be better, but I'm saving that as my last ditch effort. >> I like Apple products, but I know I will get sucked in to their whole >> eco-sphere and probably start purchasing Macbooks and spending 1000's of >> dollars just for the hell of it at that point, lol! >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Bill Prince >> Sent: Saturday, January 2, 2016 10:52 AM >> To: af@afmug.com >> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT - bad dream >> >> 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!!!!! >> >> >> > >> >>
