It is my APC-POE surge suppressor combined with a 48 to 12 VDC buck converter.
Right now it is a kludge. If it powers up the 844E OK under max load while
being powered from a netonix switch I will combine the two circuits onto a
board and look for an appropriate case for it.
From: Chris Fabien
Sent: Saturday, January 02, 2016 7:30 PM
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT - bad dream
Can you share more ingo on this chuck? The poe adapter.
On Jan 1, 2016 4:26 PM, "Chuck McCown" <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote:
Yep, I am building a POE adapter for the gigacenter too...
Love their flow software.
From: Sean Heskett
Sent: Friday, January 01, 2016 2:24 PM
To: 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> 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.
-----Original Message-----
From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Ken Hohhof
Sent: Friday, January 1, 2016 10:30 AM
To: af@afmug.com
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?
-----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!!!!!
>
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Email: simon@sonar.software
Phone: (702) 447-1247
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