Re: [AFMUG] Mesh whole house wifi

[Donnie McCorkle]

Have you checked out SmartRG?Their smartos whole-home wifi product is pretty solid, with some additional flexibilty promised q4. We went with their ACS and analytics engines as well (from an in-house hosted ACS) all pretty solid and quick to get up and running.Onboarding team is excellent.  Helped map all the existing equipment on in-house acs so they could be moved.The whole thing took a few months, but from pricing manageability standpoint we are much better off.  Can finally mail a router to a customer with some confidence the ACS will provision it when they plug it in.Donnie

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[AFMUG] Baicells Local EPC users?

[Donnie McCorkle]

Is anyone considering or using the Baicells Local EPC?

 

We are looking into this option because we'd like to leverage some layer 2
services to authenticate our subscribers (PPPoE).

 

Don McCorkle

ATC Communications

Information Services Technician

Ph: 308.962.7298

 

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Re: [AFMUG] Managed whole house mesh wifi

[Donnie McCorkle]

Thanks Dave.. that helps me understand.

 

Donnie

 

From: AF  On Behalf Of David M
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2019 8:36 PM
To: af@af.afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Managed whole house mesh wifi

 

Heres How we do it.. 

I have come from a long time ago internet age as some of us here are. I
pre-fer to let the E400/E410/E600 do all the dirty work for wifi.

The R2xx series are just that simple SOHO routers they do not have the
ability as I know to mesh with the enterprise line of cnpilot.

I usually will let the R2xx series do all the gateway stuff and turn off its
wifi and use a small poe switch to plug the E4xx series into.

depending if separate nets for vlans are needed the we move to a mikrotik
for doing the fancy routing and firewalling. 

Most of the time homes that are a little larger than 2500sqft will only need
one E400 centrally located so EZPZ install the R200 with a POE for the E4xx
series and rock on. 

We just got in our first E430 wall plate so excited to see what it carries
in features, but I can say so far after looking at it Cambium has thought of
a few gotchas from past devices that imitate it. 

 

On 12/27/2018 9:37 AM, Donnie McCorkle wrote:

Dave,

 

Can you describe a typical installation with Cambium?

 

cnMaestro is an awesome ACS, and while testing all of the cambium wifi
units, I find disparate mechanisms in the WiFi on the R-Series routers
(which are neat enough themselves) and the E-400 series WiFi AP platform
(great APs).

 

So far I have been unable to "MESH/WDS" the R-Series routers to the E-series
WAPs.  Also the WAPs have advanced roaming features not supported in the
router series.

 

WiFi SSID's and Passphrases do not auto-propagate across the home, and a
number of other small issues that make the platform less "Manageable" than I
would like.

 

Have you found ways around these issues or is just adding the WiFi enough
for your clients?

 

 

From: AF  <mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com>  On
Behalf Of dave
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2018 9:22 AM
To: af@af.afmug.com <mailto:af@af.afmug.com> 
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Managed whole house mesh wifi

 

We are doing the pure cambium solution using the cnmaestro with all of it is
AWESOME!

Inventory track is easier with a simple hand scanner products come in and
get scanned straight to cnmaestro where they wait to on boarded.

 

On 12/21/18 5:01 PM, David Coudron wrote:

We have been running into more and more situations where customers either
have homes that are too large to effectively cover with a good router, or
have so many devices at the far end of the house from where their router has
to be positioned that we are looking for good options to provide better
whole house coverage.   We have worked with Powerline extenders, but
consider them to be too inconsistent for wide spread use, and have worked
with some wireless extenders.   The wireless extenders have a pretty big
impact on wireless speed that we aren't excited about them as a go forward
solution.   We also can't log into the powerline or wireless extenders
without some port forwarding work in their main router.   We have played
around with some mesh options, particularly the Ubiquiti Amplifi product,
which we really like, but feel like it is not an option since we cannot
manage it remotely.   Netgear Orbi certainly seems like a viable option, but
kind of spendy if you need 3 nodes.   Cost isn't necessarily an issue since
customers will buy this equipment rather than us fund it, but we don't want
the solution to be so expensive no one opts for it.   I know there has been
a few threads on managed routers, but this seems like a little bit different
take since we are going to have customers buy the equipment, but would like
to be able to manage remotely.   I suppose one option would be to still
provide an inexpensive managed router as we currently do and have them
manage the mesh system on their own.   Any thoughts on what has worked well
for whole house mesh systems, especially in a remote management situation?

 

Regards,

 

David Coudron

 

 







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Re: [AFMUG] Managed whole house mesh wifi

[Donnie McCorkle]

Dave,

 

Can you describe a typical installation with Cambium?

 

cnMaestro is an awesome ACS, and while testing all of the cambium wifi
units, I find disparate mechanisms in the WiFi on the R-Series routers
(which are neat enough themselves) and the E-400 series WiFi AP platform
(great APs).

 

So far I have been unable to "MESH/WDS" the R-Series routers to the E-series
WAPs.  Also the WAPs have advanced roaming features not supported in the
router series.

 

WiFi SSID's and Passphrases do not auto-propagate across the home, and a
number of other small issues that make the platform less "Manageable" than I
would like.

 

Have you found ways around these issues or is just adding the WiFi enough
for your clients?

 

 

From: AF  On Behalf Of dave
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2018 9:22 AM
To: af@af.afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Managed whole house mesh wifi

 

We are doing the pure cambium solution using the cnmaestro with all of it is
AWESOME!

Inventory track is easier with a simple hand scanner products come in and
get scanned straight to cnmaestro where they wait to on boarded.

 

On 12/21/18 5:01 PM, David Coudron wrote:

We have been running into more and more situations where customers either
have homes that are too large to effectively cover with a good router, or
have so many devices at the far end of the house from where their router has
to be positioned that we are looking for good options to provide better
whole house coverage.   We have worked with Powerline extenders, but
consider them to be too inconsistent for wide spread use, and have worked
with some wireless extenders.   The wireless extenders have a pretty big
impact on wireless speed that we aren't excited about them as a go forward
solution.   We also can't log into the powerline or wireless extenders
without some port forwarding work in their main router.   We have played
around with some mesh options, particularly the Ubiquiti Amplifi product,
which we really like, but feel like it is not an option since we cannot
manage it remotely.   Netgear Orbi certainly seems like a viable option, but
kind of spendy if you need 3 nodes.   Cost isn't necessarily an issue since
customers will buy this equipment rather than us fund it, but we don't want
the solution to be so expensive no one opts for it.   I know there has been
a few threads on managed routers, but this seems like a little bit different
take since we are going to have customers buy the equipment, but would like
to be able to manage remotely.   I suppose one option would be to still
provide an inexpensive managed router as we currently do and have them
manage the mesh system on their own.   Any thoughts on what has worked well
for whole house mesh systems, especially in a remote management situation?

 

Regards,

 

David Coudron

 

 





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Re: [AFMUG] AF subscription notification

[Donnie McCorkle]

Anonymity isnt a problem.  Can sign up with any email right?   Or is there a 
manual screener?

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