I would avoid the 751 for now based on my hell of an experience. That's just me.
Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Apr 26, 2012 6:27 PM, "Justin Wilson" <li...@mtin.net> wrote: > My Take on routers. > > Off the shelf routers are the #1 trouble issue on the Zig network. > Anything from gaming issues, to speed issues, to reliability issues. They > account for roughly 92% of all calls. The first thing we have the customer > do after reboots of everything is bypass the router. Most of the time this > shows the customer it's their router, or something behind it. > > In our past life we started out selling routers. We looked for the > cheapest ones we could find, which at the time were dlink. What we found > was customers then considered that our equipment. "Well the router you sold > me went out." was something we heard a lot. Or "I reset the router now you > have to come out and configure it" > > What we are doing this time around is we have only one officially approved > router. The Mikrotik 751. We have a local computer shop which stocks them > and sets them up. What he does as far as support is between him and the > customer. I am pretty sure he tells them he is just a retailer for the > product and if they want his help he will gladly charge them his hourly > rate. All about expectations up front. > > By doing all of this we are not in the router business, but the customer > gets a solid product and cuts down on our calls. In turn we have a happier > customer base. And if need be, we can actually login to their router and do > torch, etc. > > Justin > > From: Darin Steffl <dcsho...@gmail.com> > Reply-To: WISPA General List <wireless@wispa.org> > Date: Thursday, April 26, 2012 2:31 PM > To: <wireless@wispa.org> > Subject: [WISPA] Customer Routers > > Hey guys, > > What are some of you providing for customer wireless routers if you > include them in the install as I do? I currently have a batch of 10 > Ubiquiti Air Routers and the first two I pulled out are giving me some > problems. Could be a bad batch. > > I am also looking at TP-Link as they are about $30 on Amazon with external > antennas and pretty good reviews. > > TP-Link TL-WR841N > > What are you guys using? > > -- > Darin Steffl > _______________________________________________ Wireless mailing list > Wireless@wispa.org http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > > _______________________________________________ > Wireless mailing list > Wireless@wispa.org > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > >
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