Funny you should ask. We are a nonprofit, member owned cooperative, 501-C12. So, we recommended raising our service fees to all of the members to cover the cost of the upgrades figuring a time line of three years to complete all the backbone and CPE changes. Regrettably, the Board was a bit slow to accept this recommendation and we burned through our reserves in a year and a half. Luckily we have nearly completed the backbone upgrades, which is nearly half of the total cost (lots of infrastructure stuff, PV, monitoring, power backup, etc.) so can now concentrate our cash flow at the CPE upgrades of which we have completed about half. Since we use volunteer labor for the radio swaps and installs we can only do so many a month, which fits within our cash flow constraints. The up side is that even only being half way through the process our entire network, even the 2.4 legacy part is working much better because of the higher throughput of the airFiber backbone and reduction of stations on the 2.4 AP's. The AC access points using 20MHz channel widths via the airFiber backbone are iperfing at nearly 100Mbps to the headend of the network, whereas the 2.4GHz N access points (10MHz channel width) are lucky to hit 12Mbps. So, all and all it is worth the time, effort and expense to make the change. But, that is using our business model. Not sure about a more traditional model.
Phil On Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 7:50 AM, Ken Patrick <patr...@my9ja.com> wrote: > HI, > Ho are you able to fund the CPE replacement ? Charged the Customers , > yourself ??? > > On Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 2:02 PM, Phil Curnutt <pcurn...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> All AC here. We are moving all AP's and CPE's from 2.4N to 5GHz AC. >> Also replacing 5GHz airMax N backbone with airFiber5X. >> >> Phil >> >> On Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 6:50 AM, Adair Winter < >> ada...@amarillowireless.net> wrote: >> >>> Peter and Phil, Are you running ac clients, mixed or more series only? >>> On Jul 16, 2016 11:30 PM, "Peter Kranz" <pkr...@unwiredltd.com> wrote: >>> >>>> I’ve had a couple instanced of AC Prism units rebooting, and one >>>> instance of a lockup that required a hard power cycle. You should use >>>> something like a tough switch to power them to allow remote power cycles if >>>> you run into the issue, and collect and submit the logs if they reboot >>>> unexpectedly. It’s definitely not something I am seeing daily or weekly, or >>>> even monthly.. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -PK >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> *From:* ubnt_users-boun...@wispa.org [mailto: >>>> ubnt_users-boun...@wispa.org] *On Behalf Of *CBB - Jay Fuller >>>> *Sent:* Saturday, July 16, 2016 3:28 PM >>>> *To:* Ubiquiti Users Group <ubnt_users@wispa.org> >>>> *Subject:* Re: [Ubnt_users] 5 ghz airprism - reports >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> have either of you seen any ethernet lockups like reported on ubnt >>>> forums? >>>> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> >>>> *From:* Phil Curnutt <pcurn...@gmail.com> >>>> >>>> *To:* Ubiquiti Users Group <ubnt_users@wispa.org> >>>> >>>> *Sent:* Saturday, July 16, 2016 3:04 PM >>>> >>>> *Subject:* Re: [Ubnt_users] 5 ghz airprism - reports >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Concur with Peter. We are running 8.14beta and running nicely. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Phil >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 2:00 PM, Peter Kranz <pkr...@unwiredltd.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Run the latest v8 you can get your hands on.. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -PK >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> *From:* ubnt_users-boun...@wispa.org [mailto: >>>> ubnt_users-boun...@wispa.org] *On Behalf Of *CBB - Jay Fuller >>>> *Sent:* Friday, July 15, 2016 11:49 AM >>>> *To:* Ubiquiti Users Group <ubnt_users@wispa.org> >>>> *Subject:* [Ubnt_users] 5 ghz airprism - reports >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Those of you tinkering with this, what is the best firmware to run >>>> currently? >>>> >>>> What firmware was shown on the big screen demo last November? >>>> >>>> was that 8.x beta? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> I just read a thread where bandwidth was dropping and a reboot fixed it. >>>> >>>> what known issues are out there and w/ what firmware version? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Thanks in advance ;) >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Ubnt_users mailing list >>>> Ubnt_users@wispa.org >>>> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/ubnt_users >>>> >>>> >>>> ------------------------------ >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Ubnt_users mailing list >>>> Ubnt_users@wispa.org >>>> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/ubnt_users >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Ubnt_users mailing list >>>> Ubnt_users@wispa.org >>>> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/ubnt_users >>>> >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Ubnt_users mailing list >>> Ubnt_users@wispa.org >>> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/ubnt_users >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Ubnt_users mailing list >> Ubnt_users@wispa.org >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/ubnt_users >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Ubnt_users mailing list > Ubnt_users@wispa.org > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/ubnt_users > >
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