I feel yo Pain Maine..!
On 1/1/2016 3:34 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
I find it interesting that people practically demand as their right a
minimum of gigabit Internet, but do they wire their new houses with
fiber or Cat6 to every room so they can actually use that gigabit
connection? Nope.
Just like they throw a fit if their ISP has any kind of outage, but do
they buy a UPS or generator for power outages? Nope.
Drives me crazy when I log into towers running on batteries and see
zero customers connected. It’s the end of the freaking world if their
Internet goes down, but if their power is off, then it’s no big deal.
Probably because they use their cellphones, or drive somewhere else
because they don’t want to be at home with no lights or heat. But if
there’s a raging storm outside, we’re supposed to climb the tower in
the dark or set up a portable generator in the rain because they can’t
live without Netflix.
I suppose they also believe because their router says “AC3400” on the
box that means they have 3.4 gig of bandwidth everywhere in their
house. Apparently the government is not concerned about the
outrageous claims for WiFi router speeds. But if someone speedtests
their 1 gig Internet service at 900 meg, it’s time to lodge a
complaint against their ISP, for not delivering advertised speeds, or
throttling, or violating human rights.
*From:* Sean Heskett <mailto:af...@zirkel.us>
*Sent:* Friday, January 01, 2016 3:24 PM
*To:* af@afmug.com <mailto:af@afmug.com>
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT - bad dream
Calix can do all that and a whole lot more sterling
On Friday, January 1, 2016, Sterling Jacobson <sterl...@avative.net
<mailto:sterl...@avative.net>> wrote:
I hear you.
My new year's goal is to find a better solution for my customers.
Unfortunately, at 100-1000Mbps, the pickings are still slim.
I would like to use MikroTik and manage the routing, but I'm
finding that it's still best to get a really nice $100-$300+
single Wireless AC router and place it in the center of the house.
What I would really like is a good split solution with routing in
the head/basement, and wireless AC in bridge mode in one or two
places in the house.
But that doesn't seem to exist.
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From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com <javascript:;>] On Behalf Of
Ken Hohhof
Sent: Friday, January 1, 2016 10:30 AM
To: af@afmug.com <javascript:;>
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT - bad dream
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?
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From: Simon Westlake
Sent: Friday, January 01, 2016 11:04 AM
To: af@afmug.com <javascript:;>
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!!!!!
>
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