We install a Calix as a “trial” so we have visibility into their network
and voila all their Wi-Fi problems go away.  After the free month trial it
becomes a paid service and for $12/mo we make sure their Wi-Fi keeps
working.  Win-win for us and them ;-)

-Sean


On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 10:33 AM Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote:

> Has anyone figured out a solution to interference with Google WiFi at
> customers fed via 5 GHz?
>
>
>
> We have found it to be an unsolvable problem due to:
>
>
>
> 1)  Google does not let you set the frequencies
>
> 2)  Google does not let you set the channel width (and therefore
> presumably uses 80 MHz channels)
>
> 3)  The mesh system presumably uses additional spectrum for the backhaul
> between pucks
>
> 4)  Most customers put in 3 of them, virtually guaranteeing at least 1 of
> them will be right near the dish to the tower
>
> 5)  Many customers also figure they can put them in outbuildings to get
> service to their shop, barn, etc. (one customer today intended to put one
> in his wife’s “she-shed”)
>
>
>
> With any other router we just set the channel to a U-NII-1 or DFS
> channel.  We have a fair amount of 3.65 GHz in our network and then it
> isn’t a problem, but the majority is still 5 GHz.
>
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