We had customers try orbi and found a couple of problems. 1st was that
you could not set the channel that it used for mesh. There was a place
to in the config but it didn't actually change anything ( it lied ) and
if it chose a channel we were delivering on, all hell broke loose.
Second was that we had a customer pick theirs up from Costco when they
were selling them and when the customer went to upgrade the firmware (
hopefully to fix the mesh channel thing ) there was no firmware
available for the mesh unit they had purchased. They looked, we drove
out there and looked, The unit number was nowhere in the orbi support
firmwares and could not be upgraded.
Disqualified because of those two things..
On 09/05/2019 11:47 AM, David Coudron wrote:
We looked at a bunch of different options and decided to provide Netgear
Orbi Mesh. What we looked at was:
Ubiquiti Amplifi – worked great in our tests, but there is no remote
management option
Calix Gigacenter – also worked great, but really need to commit to their
cloud management. That was too big a commitment for just the few meshes
we do
TP Link, Google and a bunch of others – all would likely work, but most
didn’t have remote management and/or a dedicated backhaul channel.
Mikrotik – Not really in the same category, but wasn’t a serious
consideration as it was way to complicated and under performing
Netgear checked the boxes that were important to us:
Readily available
Remotely manageable
Dedicated backhaul channel
Reasonably priced
Passed our simple testing
Regards,
David Coudron
*From:*AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf Of *Clint Wiley
*Sent:* Thursday, September 5, 2019 1:36 PM
*To:* af@af.afmug.com
*Subject:* [AFMUG] Mesh whole house wifi
Hi all,
For those of you offering ‘whole house’ wifi services, what are you
deploying? We know that the one sore point for our users is wifi
coverage. Our ONT vendor (zhone) has been promising a solution for
almost a year now but it still isn’t ready and, quite frankly, lacks the
end user management features others might have. We’d like remote
management so we can assist in setting SSID’s and changing passwords, et.
Thanks,
Clint
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