That's the problem with just about all of these systems for a WISP... they don't let you manually set the channel. From what I can tell, the Orbi does let you set the primary channel (although it's limited to 5180-5240mhz), but it doesn't let you set it's backhaul channel (which it uses to connect to the remote units), so even if the channel setting didn't lie, it's still mostly useless.
On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 3:14 PM Robert Andrews <i...@avantwireless.com> wrote: > 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 > > > > > > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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