I’d highly suggest looking an investing in your own Friendly Tech ACS. Up
front cost is certainly an investment, but its yours. We are well over 2000
devices with a mix of cnPilot , ReadyNet, Calix, Adtran devices.
Ryan Hill
Operations Manager
Amplex Internet
(419)837-5015 Ext 1047
www.amplex.net <http://www.amplex.net/>
> On Jun 7, 2019, at 4:41 PM, Ryan Ray <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> We're also making the decision to go with Calix after deploying hundreds of
> cnpilot. The hardware quality with cnpilot is just not there. Agreed that for
> .54 cents per sub just charge a managed router charge. We're expecting much
> better performance out of the calix.
>
> On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 1:38 PM Darin Steffl <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> No great system works for free.
>
> Calix is still the best option out there feature and performance wise. Price
> isn't bad once you consider how easy it is, can free up labor for money
> making things like sales, and reduces churn. I'm going to continue saying
> that the Calix cloud pays for itself over and over again.
>
> We pay for management of 1000 routers like $6500 a year for cloud which comes
> out to something like 54 cents per month per sub. Sell your customers managed
> router service if you're worried. We include it at zero cost now because it's
> better they have a good wifi experience than a shitty one and then cancel
> service.
>
> On Fri, Jun 7, 2019, 5:30 PM Adam Moffett <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> I'm curious what people are doing for home WiFi.
>
> I've looked at Calix, Plume, and other big name systems. They're all
> pretty awesome, but the recurring cost is a little tough to swallow.
>
> I don't like Mikrotik for this purpose because A) no central management
> unless you write your own and B) it's daunting for new techs to learn
> some basic things like port forwarding or switching to bridge mode. I
> mean it's nice that the Mikrotik can do everything, but a port
> forwarding rule doesn't need to be that hard.
>
> With Ubiquiti they have a bunch of different products with diverging
> target markets. Hard to get a handle on what I would want. I do like
> that UNMS is available for free. I don't like that AmpliFi isn't
> supported in UNMS, and honestly the pricetag on the Mesh nodes is a bit
> high ($100+). The AirCube models seem about right, but I wish it had a
> couple of features from AmpliFi. UniFi is a nice system and AFAIK the
> only UBNT thing with zero touch provisioning, but it's not convenient
> for many individual networks on the controller. I guess I feel like
> they have 3 different product lines that are each almost right, but they
> couldn't quite bring it all together.
>
> Cambium CnPilot with CnMaestro ticks most of my check boxes, but
> (correct me if I'm wrong) I don't think they make a mesh/repeater type
> of unit.
>
> I guess I could look at ReadyNet again. I can't remember why I didn't
> run with them earlier.
>
> What is the Borg using for home WiFi to sell as a service?
>
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