Here's the Colorado sales rep who can get you in touch with the Utah sales rep sterling. lonny.ma...@calix.com
On Saturday, January 2, 2016, Sterling Jacobson <sterl...@avative.net> wrote: > Cool, who is a good person/vendor or direct sales website link to buy and > test some? > > > > I’ve got a large apartment complex/multiplex coming up and was seriously > wondering how that was going to work. > > > > *From:* Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','af-boun...@afmug.com');>] *On Behalf Of *Sean > Heskett > *Sent:* Saturday, January 2, 2016 4:31 PM > *To:* af@afmug.com <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','af@afmug.com');> > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT - bad dream > > > > 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 > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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!!!!! > >> > > > >
