Hmmm, 90 percent take rate on a fiber network for the 844E sounds tempting.
I still haven’t heard back on pricing on a few things like this from my Calix rep. I think they were waiting for me to commit to 100’s of units, lol! My current solution is to tell them to go buy themselves something nice for their router, like a $170 Asus or Netgear Nighthawk. Maybe I should reconsider and have another person/company to the managed router thing for me. I definitely don’t sell routers! One of my contractors starting selling crappy routers to customers and I think I’ve had to go back and replace all of those. From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Josh Reynolds Sent: Wednesday, June 1, 2016 9:27 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Pricing for Managed Customer Routers? I contacted mine as well for him. WTF? On Jun 1, 2016 10:00 PM, "Craig Schmaderer" <cr...@skywaveconnect.com<mailto:cr...@skywaveconnect.com>> wrote: We started doing it on our fiber network with 844E and we have over a 90% take rate at $7. The only mistake I made was starting at $7 :) Calix can be a bit of a pain to buy from. And maybe if you are just wanting to buy routers even more of a pain, I am not sure. But once you are setup with them, they are awesome. Gino I saw again that you are still waiting, did they ever call you? My sales rep keeps telling me he is hitting up your sales rep? Maybe yours spends to much time on the beach drinking mai tai’s Ill send another email out for you… From: Af <af-boun...@afmug.com<mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com>> on behalf of Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuh...@gmail.com<mailto:eric.kuh...@gmail.com>> Reply-To: "af@afmug.com<mailto:af@afmug.com>" <af@afmug.com<mailto:af@afmug.com>> Date: Wednesday, June 1, 2016 at 8:38 PM To: "af@afmug.com<mailto:af@afmug.com>" <af@afmug.com<mailto:af@afmug.com>> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Pricing for Managed Customer Routers? I'm going to assume it involves sacrificing a goat during the full moon over a pentagram while chanting "ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn", because after signing an NDA and describing what I'm looking for pricing on, I didn't get much useful info back... On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 6:35 PM, Jon Langeler <jon-ispli...@michwave.net<mailto:jon-ispli...@michwave.net>> wrote: How do you place orders with Calix? I sent them all my paperwork and listened to their marketing blurbs. Jon Langeler Michwave Technologies, Inc. On Jun 1, 2016, at 6:41 PM, Sean Heskett <af...@zirkel.us<mailto:af...@zirkel.us>> wrote: "managed wifi" means they can call us at anytime for help with anything they need their router to do. wifi password, parental controls, port forwarding etc. we receive exactly zero calls per month from our clients that have our calix gigacenter 844E :-) -Sean On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 1:29 PM, That One Guy /sarcasm <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com<mailto:thatoneguyst...@gmail.com>> wrote: what does managed wifi consist of? We opted not to do anything with the free wireless we give out beyond shutting it off if they have problems. Too many customers who want the equipment installed in their basement and coverage to their detached garage, inside their refrigerator, up in the attic, through 7 walls and a TV.... no thank you On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 2:26 PM, Sean Heskett <af...@zirkel.us<mailto:af...@zirkel.us>> wrote: we charge a $99 "setup fee" for our "managed wifi service" which costs $12/mo. the router remains our property and we replace it if need be. At that price i expected the take rate to be lower than what it is (we priced it high so that we could run specials ;-) but we've been very pleased with the take rate. On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 10:56 AM, Christopher Gray <cg...@graytechsoftware.com<mailto:cg...@graytechsoftware.com>> wrote: All this looking cnPilot and GigaCenter has me thinking about pricing models for managed customer routers... What pricing models are others using for the R200/R201/844E managed home routers? Do you sell the customer the router, lease it, just give it, charge for management, sell it without management, etc? [During a promotional time, I have been using the R200 and sell it to new customers for $50 (at a loss to help adoption). Then, I don't charge for remote management. I've been pretty pleased, but I'm debating whether to sell the router (since it requires convincing the customer) or just including it. Also, I want to start charging for management, but I'm not sure what a reasonable rate is. I recognize it will vary by area, but I'm looking for some ballpark numbers.] Thank you, Chris -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
